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Aziz Huq

Aziz Huq

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Aziz Huq, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, is the author of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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  1. South Korea’s Impeachment Battle Is Democracy in Action
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    South Korea’s Impeachment Battle Is Democracy in Action

    Dec 5, 2024 Aziz Huq thinks the effort to remove a lawless president can serve as an important signal to the rest of the world.

  2. Why Another Trump Term Would Be Worse Than the First
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    Why Another Trump Term Would Be Worse Than the First

    Oct 16, 2024 Tom Ginsburg & Aziz Huq see a pattern of authoritarian movements becoming more effective when given a second shot at power.

  3. The Supreme Court Is Shaking America’s Fiscal Foundations
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    The Supreme Court Is Shaking America’s Fiscal Foundations

    Jul 5, 2024 Aziz Huq sounds the alarm about a dangerous trend in US constitutional law that is showing no signs of abating.

  4. The Democrats’ Democratic Dividend
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    The Democrats’ Democratic Dividend

    Dec 16, 2022 Aziz Huq & Tom Ginsburg propose several steps that President Joe Biden’s administration could take to strengthen US institutions.

  5. America’s Leaky Justice
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    America’s Leaky Justice

    May 5, 2022 Aziz Huq explains why the source of a US Supreme Court draft opinion may be more important than the opinion itself.

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    Ukraine’s True Value

    Anastassia Fedyk & Emilia Marshall

    Ukraine’s immense industrial and human resources once helped make the Soviet Union a global power, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on them to achieve his neo-imperialist dream. With the US now behaving like a Kremlin proxy, supporting Ukraine has become an existential imperative for Europe.

    warn that abandoning the country could hand Vladimir Putin the opportunity to restore Russia’s imperial status.
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    America Is Gone – Europe Must Replace It

    Sławomir Sierakowski

    Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s verbal assault on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was shocking but not surprising. As the Trump administration rapidly destroys America's credibility and international standing, Europe must mobilize its ample resources to replace America as a global leader.

    says the Trump administration's Oval Office fight with Ukraine's president is a moment that will live in infamy.
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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.
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    Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach shows how the US president’s policies could create the very problems he falsely claims to be confronting.
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    Britain Must Downgrade the Special Relationship

    Chris Patten outlines steps UK policymakers must take to mitigate the strategic threat posed by the Trump administration.
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    America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.
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    The Opacity of Hope

    Jonathan Levy reflects on how the politics promoted by America’s first Black president gave rise to its first felonious one.
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    A New Gulf Growth Model

    Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog explain why the region’s governments are well positioned to capitalize on recent geo-economic trends.

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