Aziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College Law School. He focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. His books include, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them" (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and "The Two Faces of American Freedom" (Harvard University Press).