Law School Pursuing Civil Rights

Texas A&M University School of Law’s associate professor Sahar Aziz focuses her research primarily on civil rights, rule of law in emerging democracies in the Middle East, and how these issues relate to national security in a post-9/11 world.

Aziz’s research and policy work pay particular attention to minorities most vulnerable to being targeted by the state. As such, she is among the leading experts on post-9/11 discrimination against Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities in the United States. Her research in the U.S. context informs her interdisciplinary research on the role of law in expanding or constraining individual rights in a post-revolutionary Egypt, which is currently experiencing a rise in terrorist acts after the deposal of its first democratically elected president.