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Jack Goldsmith


Steve KroftJack Goldsmith is the author of The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration.

He served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003

He currently is the Henry L Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, specializing in international law, foreign affairs law, national security law, and the law governing terrorism. He is the author of dozens of articles on these and related subjects in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and other legal publications. Other books he’s written include: Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World and The Limits of International Law. Goldsmith has also written op-ed pieces for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times.

Goldsmith holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and a B.A. from Washington and Lee University. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, and Judge George Aldrich on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. He taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997 – 2002, and at the University of Virginia Law School from 1994 – 1997.

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