As a legal scholar, Miriam Aziz LLB PhD focused on questions of culture, citizenship and human rights in European and International Law. She has taught and conducted research in a variety of law schools across the European Union and the United States. She was also called to the English Bar in 1994; she has also worked as a legal consultant for a number of law firms (e.g. Freshfields-Deringer and Coudert-Schurmann). She has also been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Libera Università degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome, Saint Louis University Law School, Université Paris Dauphine and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and a visiting scholar at New York University Law School, Columbia Law School and Cardozo Law School. She was also a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany where she also published articles in Law and Humanities and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities.

She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Lille, France and at the Bicocca University of Milan, Italy.