Sahar F. Aziz
Associate Professor of Law
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Courses: National Security, Civil Rights Litigation, National Security & Race in a Post-9/11 America, Torts, Advanced Torts
Sahar F. Aziz joined the faculty of Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in 2011 as an associate professor of law. Prior to joining Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Professor Aziz was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center where she taught national security and civil rights law. Professor Aziz served as a senior policy advisor for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where she worked on law and policy at the intersection of national security and civil rights. Prior to joining DHS, Professor Aziz was an associate at Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll PLLP in Washington, D.C. where she litigated class action civil rights lawsuits alleging a nationwide pattern and practice of gender discrimination in pay and promotion.
Professor Aziz began her legal career as an associate at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C. where she conducted internal white collar crime investigations and an independent investigation on child trafficking in the Persian Gulf. Professor Aziz clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Professor Aziz’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of national security and civil rights law with a focus on the post-9/11 era. Professor Aziz incorporates critical race theory, feminist theory, and constitutional law into her examination of the disparate impact of post-9/11 laws and public policy on ethnic, racial, and religious minority groups in the United States. Professor Aziz’s analyzes these issues in various contexts including immigration, counterterrorism, criminal justice, and civil rights litigation. Professor Aziz applies her scholarship in the American context towards her scholarship on rule of law and democracy promotion in post-revolution Egypt.
Professor Aziz has been featured on CSPAN, Russia Today and Al Jazeera English and published numerous commentaries on national security and civil rights issues issues on
Harvard National Security Journal, CNN.com, the
Houston Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Truthout.com, altmuslim.com, the American Constitution Society’s blog, JURIST.com,
The Guardian, The Washington Times, The American Bar Association Journal and the
Christian Science Monitor. Professor Aziz has presented her work in various forums including at U.S. Congressional Briefings, the Aspen Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, the American Bar Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Texas Bar Association.
Professor Aziz earned her J.D. and M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas. She received her B.S. from the University of Texas in Arlington. She is a board member of the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association.
Publications
Policing Terrorists in the Community, HARVARD JOURNAL OF NATIONAL SECURITY (forthcoming Fall 2013).
Revolution without Reform? 45 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. 1 (2013). [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]
The Muslim 'Veil' Post-9/11: Rethinking Women's Rights and Leadership, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING (November 2012).
From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: Muslim American Women in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality, 9 HASTINGS RACE AND POVERTY L.J. 191 (Summer 2012).
Egypt’s Protracted Revolution, THE HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEF at the American University Washington College of Law, 19 NO. 3 HUM. RTS. BRIEF 1 (Fall 2012). To watch the symposium, click here.
Revolution Without Reform: A Critique of Egypt’s Electoral Laws, GEORGE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW (forthcoming Spring 2013).
Caught in a Preventive Dragnet: Selective Counterterrorism in a Post 9-11 America, 47 GONZAGA L. REV. 1 (Spring 2012).
Terror(izing) the Muslim Veil, in the THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RULE OF GOD, edited by Simeon Elsanmi, University of Virginia Press (forthcoming Spring 2012).
Countering Religion or Terrorism: Selective Enforcement of Material Support Laws Against Muslim Charities, (September 2011).
Citizens, Not Subjects: Debunking the Sectarian Narrative of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Bahrain, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING (July 2011) (co-author).
Symposium: Confronting Islam: Shari’ah, the Constitution, and American Muslims: The Face of Islam: The Perception of Muslims in America, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LAW JOURNAL OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER AND CLASS (Spring 2011).
Sticks and Stones, Words That Hurt: Entrenched Stereotypes Eight Years After 9/11, 13 N.Y. CITY L. REV. 33 (September 2010). [Hein] [Westlaw] [SSRN]
The Laws on Providing Material Support to Terrorist Organizations: The Erosion of Constitutional Rights or a Legitimate Tool for Combating Terrorism?, 9 TEX. J.C.L. & C.R. 45 (Fall 2003). [SSRN]
Linking Intellectual Property Rights With Research and Development, Technology Transfer, and Foreign Investment: A Case Study of Egypt’s Pharmaceutical Industry, 10 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP.L.1, Winter 2003. [SSRN]
View Professor Aziz’s curriculum vitae.