Jack Goldsmith

Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and co-founder of Lawfare. He teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, cybersecurity, international law, internet law, foreign relations law, and conflict of laws. His books include Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 (2012); The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (2007); and (with Tim Wu) Who Controls The Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (2006). Before joining Harvard, Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003. He was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997-2002, and at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1994-1997. Goldsmith clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy from 1990-1991, for Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson from 1989- 1990, and for Judge George Aldrich on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal from 1991-1993.