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Jack Landman Goldsmith III (born September 26, 1962) is an American legal scholar. He is a professor at
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who has written extensively in the fields of
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,
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, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law. He has been "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the
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legal firmament." In addition to being a professor at Harvard, Goldsmith is a senior fellow at the
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at Stanford University. He is a co-founder of the ''
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'' along with Brookings fellow
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and Texas Law professor Robert M. Chesney.


Education and career

Goldsmith grew up the stepson of Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien, widely believed to have played a role in the disappearance of
Jimmy Hoffa James Riddle Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975; declared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971. F ...
, former president of the
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. Goldsmith attended and graduated from
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in 1980. He matriculated and graduated from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts, ''
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'', in 1984. He earned a second BA with first class honours from the University of Oxford in 1986 ( promoted to an MA per tradition in 1991), a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1989. Goldsmith clerked for Judge
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on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1989 to 1990, and for Justice
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of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1990 to 1991. He then earned a diploma from
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in 1992. Goldsmith then entered private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling from 1994–1996. He served as a professor at the
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before going to the University of Chicago. In 2002, Goldsmith joined the Bush administration as the Special Counsel to General Counsel of the Department of Defense, at a time when the government was developing plans for responding to the
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. In April 2003 he was nominated to be a United States Assistant Attorney General, tasked with leading the prestigious Office of Legal Counsel in the
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. The Senate confirmed him in October 2003. He resigned in July 2004 to join
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. He wrote a book about his experiences there called ''The Terror Presidency'' (2007).


George W. Bush administration

In August 2002, before Goldsmith joined the
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, the Office of Legal Counsel,
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, had issued three documents, which became known as the
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, or the
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(referring to one in particular). The Bybee memo was directed to the Acting General Counsel of the
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in relation to interrogation of a detainee,
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. It authorized certain
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(characterized by the administration as "enhanced interrogation techniques") for use with detained enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and other locations. In addition, on March 14, 2003, after Goldsmith had been hired to work as a legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense,
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wrote a legal opinion at the request of the Department of Defense General Counsel, five days before the
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, concluding that federal laws did not prohibit torture by interrogators of foreign subjects overseas. (The memo was not revealed until 2008.)


Office of General Counsel of the Department of Defense

By September 2002, Jack Goldsmith had been hired to work as a legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, William J. Haynes II. Goldsmith accompanied Haynes late that month as one of a large party of senior government appointees who traveled to military detention facilities at Guantanamo, Norfolk, Virginia, and
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to see detainees (including two United States citizens) and the conditions for enemy combatants. Mayer, Jane, '' The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals'', 2008. p. 199 He had participated in discussions related to treatment.


Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice

In October 2003, Goldsmith was appointed to head the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal guidance to the US President and all executive branch agencies, including those tasked with the interrogation of enemy combatants. That gave him the base for influencing debates within the Bush administration regarding its conduct of the War on Terror. In April and May 2004, the Abu Ghraib prisoner torture and abuse scandal broke. In June, the Bybee memo was leaked. Goldsmith considered it to be "tendentious, overly broad and legally flawed." He worked to have the memos changed. Including his challenges of White House staff on issues related to domestic surveillance and trials of terrorists, he was successful in moderating some of what he considered to be the previous "constitutional excesses" embraced by the White House. On June 30, 2004, Goldsmith withdrew as legally defective the
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and the
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and advised the Department of Defense not to rely on the March 2003 memo. At the same time, he submitted his resignation. Several years later he said that was to try to force the administration to accept his withdrawal of the memo. Office of Legal Counsel legal opinions written in August 2002 related to the government's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, or torture, on individuals detained as enemy combatants. '' Newsweek'' reported in 2007 that the CIA had regarded the Bybee memo as a "golden shield" against potential prosecution of officials involved in the program. However, Goldsmith had been unable to have his office complete what he intended as the replacement legal opinions before he resigned. He said later that he felt that he had lost the confidence of the administration. By December 2004, the replacement counsel at the Office of Legal Counsel had reaffirmed the previous legal opinions. Goldsmith later said that one consequence of the Office of Legal Counsel's "power to interpret the law is the power to bestow on government officials what is effectively an advance pardon for actions taken at the edges of vague criminal statutes."


Warrantless wiretapping memos

During Goldsmith's tenure at the Office of Legal Counsel, he wrote at least two legal memos authorizing a program known as Stellar Wind. His memos said that the president has inherent constitutional power in a time of war to monitor Americans' communications without a warrant. In March 2004, the Office of Legal Counsel concluded the e-mail program was not legal. Acting Attorney General
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refused to reauthorize it. On May 6, 2004, Goldsmith wrote in a 108-page memo:
"We conclude only that when the nation has been thrust into an armed conflict by a foreign attack on the United States and the president determines in his role as commander in chief... that it is essential for defense against a further foreign attack to use the iretappingcapabilities of the ational Security Agencywithin the United States, he has inherent constitutional authority" to order warrantless wiretapping—"an authority that Congress cannot curtail.”


Scholarship

Goldsmith has published four books about law and policy, ''Power and Constraint,'' ''Who Controls the Internet,'' ''The Terror Presidency,'' and ''The Limits of International Law.'' His fifth book is more personal: ''In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, A Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth,'' published in the fall of 2019. In this memoir, Goldsmith explores who killed labor leader
Jimmy Hoffa James Riddle Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975; declared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971. F ...
. He reveals the perennial mystery's connections to both broader American historical and economic trends, and Goldsmith's own family. Goldsmith's stepfather was Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien, who had lived with Hoffa and his family as a child and young adult. He later followed Hoffa into the union, and they remained associated. In 2001, the FBI found Hoffa's DNA in a 1975 Mercury car that O'Brien had borrowed after it was owned by a mobster. He denied Hoffa was ever in the car and said he was not involved in his disappearance that year. Goldsmith is also an editor of three leading legal casebooks, including ''Foreign Relations Law,'' ''Conflicts of Law,'' and ''Federal Courts and the Federal System'' casebook.


''Power and Constraint''

This book argues that the presidency after the 9/11 attacks was much more constrained and accountable than conventional wisdom suggests. Goldsmith asserts that the president is constantly under scrutiny and checked inside and outside the executive branch by variously motivated actors–courts and Congress, but also lawyers, inspectors general, ethics watchdogs, journalists, and civil society–who generate information about what the executive branch is doing, who force it to explain its actions, and who are empowered to change these actions when the explanations fail to convince. Goldsmith labels these multiple forms of watching and checking the presidency a "presidential synopticon," and claims that this synopticon reined in the George W. Bush administration's early excesses in the "war on terrorism," creating a consensus on counterterrorism policies by 2008 that explained the Obama administration's then-surprising decision not to change the counterterrorism policies it inherited in material ways. Goldsmith concludes that the presidential synopticon's constraints on the presidency also paradoxically empowers the presidency by making its counterterrorism actions more legitimate. But it also produces "unhappy consequences, including the harmful disclosure of national security secrets, misjudgments by the watchers of the presidency, and burdensome legal scrutiny that slows executive action." Goldsmith discussed the book on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on April 4, 2012.


''The Terror Presidency''

In 2007, Goldsmith published ''The Terror Presidency'', a memoir about his work in the Bush administration and his thoughts on the legal opinions that were promulgated by the Department of Justice in the war on terror. His discussion covers the definition of torture, the applicability of the
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s to the war on terror and the Iraq War, the detention and trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, and wiretapping laws. He is largely sympathetic to the concerns of the Bush administration's terrorism policies, but believes they made a huge strategic mistake by acting unilaterally rather than seeking congressional consent soon after 9/11. He believed that fear of another attack drove the administration to its focus on the
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of prerogative, rather than the soft power of persuasion. In the end, he believed the fear and concentration on hard power were counterproductive, both in the war on terror and in the extension of effective executive authority. He wrote that
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,
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to
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, at one point said, "We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious court," referring to the secret
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court that rules on warrants for secret wiretapping by the United States government. Goldsmith said he resigned in 2004 largely because he felt he had lost the confidence of administration leaders. He notes that the White House Counsel
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asked him to remain, while Addington, an influential White House figure, asked which other OLC opinions he intended to overturn. Goldsmith wrote in his book, "Nobody had said no to them before." To discuss his book, Goldsmith appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart twice. Goldsmith also appeared on the ''
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'' show on September 7, 2007. Moyers asked about the notable incident of his being in the hospital room of Attorney General
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after he had been suddenly taken ill the day before. That day Ashcroft had ruled that Bush's domestic intelligence program, Stellar Wind, was illegal. It included provisions for warrantless wiretaps. Gonzales and
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, White House Chief of Staff, had come to try to persuade Ashcroft to change his mind and withdraw his memo. Goldsmith was there to support Ashcroft. Goldsmith said that, as Gonzales and Card left the room, Mrs. Ashcroft stuck out her tongue at them behind their backs. President Bush re-authorized the program over the formal objections of the Department of Justice. Soon after, on '' NOW on PBS'', Goldsmith continued to discuss the issues of how the government could deal with enemy combatants. In response to a suggestion that the regular criminal court system could be used to try them, he said, "Another reason you might not want to use the trial system is that the trial system, to be legitimate, has to have the possibility of acquitting someone of a crime." He thought it would be difficult for the government to conduct military trials while withholding evidence on the basis of national security, as it had done in the military commissions and tribunals.


''Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World''

Goldsmith co-authored ''
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Professor
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. The book makes three basic claims: first, in response to the techno-libertarianism that prevailed at the time, it argues that states had many tools to achieve effective control over internet activities within their borders. Second, as a result of state control, the internet is becoming bordered by geography. The bordered Internet “reflects top-down pressures from governments that are imposing national laws on the Internet within their borders,” as well as “bottom-up pressures from individuals in different places who demand an Internet that corresponds to local preferences, and from the web page operators and other content providers who shape the Internet experience to satisfy these demands.” Third, while a geographically bordered Internet has many well-known costs, it also has “many underappreciated virtues,” including better satisfaction of local preferences, stability, and harm-prevention.


''The Limits of International Law''

Goldsmith co-authored this book with University of Chicago Law School Professor
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. The book is mainly an effort to give a descriptive theoretical account of how international law (treaties and customary international law) works, using basic game theoretical models.


Legal scholarship

In addition to his popular writing and books, Goldsmith is one of the country's leading scholars of the executive branch, international and foreign relations law, and Internet regulation having writte
dozens of academic papers
in such journals as the ''
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'' and the '' Harvard Law Review''. He has authored or co-authored the following articles, inter alia:


Foreign relations law

* "Treaties, Human Rights, and Conditional Consent," 149 ''U. Pa. L. Rev.'' 399 (2000) * "The Abiding Relevance of Federalism to U.S. Foreign Relations," 92 ''Am. J. Int'l L.'' 675 (1998) * "Sosa, Customary International Law, and Continuing Relevance of Erie," 120 ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 869 (2007) * "Customary International Law as Federal Common Law: A Critique of the Modern Position," 110 ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 816 (1997) * "Federal Courts, Foreign Affairs, and Federalism," 83 ''U. Va. L. Rev.'' 1617 (1997) * "Zivotofsky II as Precedent in the Executive Branch," 129 ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 112 (2015) * "Presidential Control over International Law," 131 ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 1201 (2018) * "Statutory Foreign Affairs Preemption," 2000 ''Sup. Ct. Rev.'' 175 (2001) * "The New Formalism in United States Foreign Relations Law," 70 ''U. Colo. L. Rev.'' 1395 (1999) * "Pinochet and International Human Rights Litigation," 97 ''U. Mich. L. Rev.'' 2129 (1999)


War and national security law

* "Terrorism and the Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention Models," 60 ''Stan. L. Rev.'' 1079 (2008) * "Congressional Authorization and the War on Terrorism," 118 ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 2047 (2005) * "Obama's AUMF Legacy," 110 ''Am. J. Int'l L.'' 628 (2016)


International law

* "Law for States: International Law, Constitutional Law, Public Law,"122 ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 1791 (2009) * "Obama's Contribution to International Law," 57 ''Harv. Int'l L.J.'' (2016) * "The Limits of Idealism," 132 ''Daedulus'' 47 (2003) * "Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective," 21 ''J. Leg. Stud.'' S115 (2002) * "A Theory of Customary International Law," 66 ''U. Chi. L. Rev.'' 1113 (1999)


Executive branch lawyering and the presidency

* "Executive Branch Crisis Lawyering and the Best View," ''Georg. J. Leg. Ethics'' 261 (2018) * "The Irrelevance of Prerogative Power and the Evils of Secret Legal Interpretation," in ''Extra-Legal Power and Legitimacy: Perspectives on Prerogative'' (2013) * "Executive Branch Crisis Lawyering and the Best View," ''Georg. J. Leg. Ethics'' 261 (2018) * "The Protean Take Care Clause," 164 ''Penn. L. Rev.'' 1835 (2016) * "The President's Completion Power," 115 ''Yale L.J. 2280 (2006)


Internet regulation

* "Against Cyberanarchy," 65 ''Chi. L. Rev.'' 1199 (1998) * "The Internet and the Dormant Commerce Clause," 110 ''Yale L.J.'' 785 (2001)


Film

''The Special Program'', a screenplay exploring Goldsmith's experiences in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, was sold to The Weinstein Company on December 16, 2013. According to the Spec Scout database, as of November 21, 2014, this project was "no longer set up with the Weinstein Company." Goldsmith questions a key premise of
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's 2019 film ''The Irishman'' due to the information he gathered for his own book about unions in the U.S., his stepfather Chuckie O'Brien, who was an associate of
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, and Hoffa's mysterious disappearance.


Books

* * * '' Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World'' (with
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, 2006) * * * ''After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency''. Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith. Lawfare Institute/Lawfare Press. September 2020.


See also

* List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1)


References


External links

* * * Goldsmith, Jack
"Why the U.S. shouldn't try Julian Assange"
Op-ed, '' Washington Post,'' February 10, 2011. * Goldsmith, Jack
"Yes, Trump Is Being Held Accountable"
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