Jack Goldsmith
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Jack Landman Goldsmith III (born September 26, 1962) is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law.[2] Writing in The New York Times, Jeffrey Rosen described him as being "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament".[3]
Jack Goldsmith | |
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United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel | |
In office October 2003 – July 2004 | |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Jay S. Bybee |
Succeeded by | Daniel Levin (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Jack Landman Goldsmith III (1962-09-26) September 26, 1962 (age 61) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.[1] |
Education | Washington and Lee University (BA) University of Oxford (BA, MA) Yale University (JD) |
In addition to being a professor at Harvard, Goldsmith is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a co-founder of the Lawfare Blog along with Brookings fellow Benjamin Wittes and Texas Law professor Robert M. Chesney.[4]