Zaakir Tameez is the author of Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, a landmark biography of America’s premier abolitionist and civil rights leader of the nineteenth century. He is a scholar of antitrust and constitutional law. A graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Virginia, he has published award-winning scholarship and coauthored amicus briefs before the Texas and United States Supreme Courts. He is a Fulbright Scholar and Humanity in Action Senior Fellow from Houston, Texas.