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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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    Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?

    Amar Bhidé

    If vindicated, DeepSeek’s technology could be to large language models what Nikola Tesla’s breakthroughs with alternating current were to electrification. While it cannot overcome the unavoidable limitations of backward-looking statistical models, it could make their price performance good enough for wider use.

    explains what a purported Chinese AI breakthrough does and does not mean for the industry.
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    What’s Wrong With Germany’s Economy?

    Michael Spence

    Germany became a European powerhouse partly because, in the early 2000s, its industrial sectors took over the highest-valued-added segments of global supply chains. Replicating this success today would require Germany to move to the forefront of the digital transformation, and it cannot do that without the EU.

    thinks the country’s prospects depend significantly on closing the digital-technology gap with the US and China.
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    When Companies Fail to Learn, They Learn to Fail

    Ricardo Hausmann explains how the inability to identify and address knowledge gaps can doom even the most promising projects.
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    How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa

    Rim Berahab & Otaviano Canuto argue that policies must be structured to facilitate, not obstruct, the continent’s shift to renewables.
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    Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

    Ma Jun envisions regional arrangements that facilitate the exchange of climate-friendly goods and services.
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    Egypt’s Economic Crisis May Not Be Over

    Adnan Mazarei urges the international community to push for long-overdue governance and economic reforms.
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    Climate Displacement Is Also a Health Crisis

    Jayasree K. Iyer proposes a four-pronged strategy to ensure that essential medicines reach vulnerable populations.
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Kenneth Rogoff urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.
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    The New Washington Consensus

    Katharina Pistor sees no daylight remaining between US private business and the federal government.

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