Jack L. Goldsmith 
Wednesday April 04
Jack Goldsmith is an author and Harvard Law School professor who served as a U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice under Attorney General John Ashcroft. In this position, which he held from 2003 to 2004, Goldsmith advised the Bush admini...
Jack Goldsmith is an author and Harvard Law School professor who served as a U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice under Attorney General John Ashcroft. In this position, which he held from 2003 to 2004, Goldsmith advised the Bush administration on issues related to interrogation of enemy combatants and detainees. His book "The Terror Presidency" (2007) gives an inside account of the OLC and the Bush administration's terrorism policies. Goldsmith, a graduate of Washington & Lee University and Yale Law School, has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the author, most recently, of "Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11" (2012).
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