Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. His book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (with Tom Ginsburg) was published in October 2018 and won the International Society of Public Law I-CON Book Prize (2019). Before teaching, Professor Huq litigated voting rights and civil liberties as Associate Counsel and then Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He was also a Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group. He clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Blueprint


• Chapter 2: Building


• Chapter 3: Remedies


• Chapter 4: Collapse


• Chapter 5: Remains


• Coda


• Notes


• Index

In The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, Aziz Z. Huq examines what happens when our constitutional rights are violated. Many people think that federal courts will step in then and provide a remedy. But for most people, and especially for the vulnerable in our society, they won't lift a finger. As Huq argues, the powerful often get quicker access to the courts and more fulsome judicial review, which shows a break from the way in which the courts were originally designed. This book shows the deep ironies of judicial independence and charts a part of getting free of its most baleful effects.