Jack Goldsmith
Harvard law professor on presidential power; ran the Office of Legal Counsel in 2003–04.
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Roles
American Enterprise Institute (non-resident senior fellow)
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- Jack Goldsmith is an American legal scholar, the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
- He led the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from October 2003 to July 2004, an experience he wrote about in The Terror Presidency (2007).
- He co-founded the Lawfare blog and, with Bob Bauer, writes Executive Functions on presidential power.
Key facts
- Role
- Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School1
- Also
- Non-resident senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute1
- Government
- Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from 2003 to 2004; Special Counsel to the DoD General Counsel (2002)1
- Books
- The Terror Presidency (2007); Power and Constraint; Who Controls the Internet; After Trump (with Bob Bauer, 2020)1
- Writes
- Executive Functions, a newsletter on presidential power, with Bob Bauer2
- Also
- Co-founder of the Lawfare blog, with Benjamin Wittes and Robert Chesney1
- Clerked for
- Justice Anthony Kennedy (1990 to 1991)1
Roles
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- American Enterprise InstituteOrganization
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