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On December 1, 2015, he founded the Dir`iyah Institution on Washington, D.C., which is an independent non-profit institution dedicated to studies of the Arabian Peninsula with focus on constitutional law, reform, political science and history. The board of the institution consists of many scholars from different countries in the Arabian Peninsula and the US.

From September 2014 to August 2015, he worked as senior fellow at Indiana University School of Global and International Studies. In August 2015, he was invited to join Iowa College of Law as a research scholar, which has continues to do.

On March 11, 2013, he used Twitter to share an allegation of government abuses against his clients, two of the most well-known human rights activists in Saudi Arabia and co founders of Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA): Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, an Indiana University educated economics professor and Abdullah al-Hamid, a professor of Arabic Literature and Poetry. Both had been jailed for advocating for fair and public trials of political detainees and for freedom of speech.

He worked at Indiana University from May 2013 until August 2015 as visiting scholar, he was responsible for the Arabian Peninsula program of the Center for Constitutional Democracy, where he worked on designing a constitution for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and he published a summary of his research in couple of articles in Arabic titled “the possible Kingdom”. He focused on researching Islamic constitutionalism and reform in the Kingdom.

In late 2011, following the Arab Spring, Lawyer Abdulaziz al-Hussan began to represent the cases of political detainees as pro bono and many detainees’ families began to approach him for help.

In 2010, he founded Osool Law Firm, one of the largest law firms in Saudi Arabia with high-profile clients including the largest Islamic bank in the world and different national, GCC, non-GCC and multinational companies including high-profile individuals. His law firm is specialising in Corporate, Capital Market, Insurance, Real Estate, Construction, Foreign Investments, Islamic Finance, Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Al Hussan worked as managing partner at Osool Law Firm from August 2010 till becoming its senior legal advisor from July 2013 to July 2015. Now he is a partner at Osool US in alliance with Osool Law Firm.

He also holds a Master of Law (LLM) from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington 2007, he studied Sharia with different scholars and have done extensive research in Islamic Law.

Al Hussan attended in 1999 the King Saud University in Riyadh, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree in 2002. He went to Cambridge to study English and legal English and spent the year of 2003 studying in the United Kingdom.

Abdulaziz bin Mohammed al-Hussan is a Saudi Arabian lawyer and reformist born on March 10, 1981 in Riyadh, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.