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His first book,\u00a0<em>The Two Faces of American Freedom\u00a0<\/em>(Harvard University Press), situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion.\u00a0His latest book,\u00a0<em>The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2024), explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century \u2014 especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority \u2014 and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prolific scholar and public intellectual, Professor Rana is the author of numerous articles essays and op-eds for such venues such as <em>The University of Chicago Law Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>California Law Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>UCLA Law Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Texas Law Review<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Yale Law Journal Forum<\/em>, <em>n+1<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Dissent<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Boston Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>,&nbsp;<em> New Labor Forum<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Jacobin<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Nation<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Jadaliyya<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Salon<\/em>, and <em>The Law and Political Economy Blog<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Rana received his A.B. from Harvard College <em>summa cum laude<\/em> and a J.D. from Yale Law School. 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