On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2025 at 5:15 pm on the Boston Common (The Embrace – 139 Tremont Street), Aziz Rana, a friend of Clough Center and a former faculty affiliate, will participate in a public conversation about the US Constitution. Organized by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the discussion will be called “Constitutional Crossroads: Is the Constitution Broken?” The speakers will discuss what challenges and limitations the Constitution faces in fulfilling its promises. This conversation will center on a primary question: Does democratic renewal necessitate reimagining our founding compact?

Aziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College. He joins Boston College from Cornell Law School, where he was the Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular, Rana’s work focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding of the country.

Aziz Rana will be joined by two other distinguished legal scholars: Brandon M. Terry and Noah Feldman, both from Harvard University. 

Brandon M. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and the co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

Noah Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Chair of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, all at Harvard University. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas.

This event promises an engaging conversation that will bring together different perspectives about the Constitution. It will be free for the public, and the details can be found on this link: https://un-monument-constitutionalcrossroads.splashthat.com/