Aziza Ahmed served as Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, joining the faculty in July 2021. She holds a B.A. from Emory University (2000), a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (2007), and an M.S. in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health (2003). Prior to UCI Law, Ahmed was Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law from 2016, having previously served as Associate Professor (2013–2016) and Assistant Professor (2010–2013) there. Her earlier roles include Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School (Spring 2019), Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School (Spring 2020), Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University (2017–2018), and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics (Spring 2014). She also worked as a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health Program on International Health and Human Rights and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow with the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS.

Ahmed's research examines the intersection of law, politics, and science in constitutional law, criminal law, health law, and family law, advancing discussions on law and social movements, race and the law, and feminist legal theory. Key publications include her forthcoming book Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS (Cambridge University Press, 2025); co-editor of Race, Racism, and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, with Guy-Uriel Charles); The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 (2024, with Linda McClain); Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence, 41 American Journal of Law & Medicine 85 (2015); Adjudicating Risk: AIDS, Crime, and Culpability, 2016 Wisconsin Law Review 627 (2016); and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion, 51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2023). She contributed to the Technical Advisory Group on HIV and the Law convened by the United Nations Development Programme and has presented on topics including Supreme Court term reviews and health equity.