Jack Goldsmith
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| Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel | |
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In office October 2003 – July 2004 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Jay S. Bybee |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Levin (acting) |
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| Born |
September 26, 1962 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater |
Washington & Lee University (B.A.) University of Oxford (B.A., M.A.) Yale Law School (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Professor |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
Jack Landman Goldsmith (born September 26, 1962) is a Harvard Law School professor who has written extensively in the field of international law, civil procedure, cyber law, and national security law. He has been "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament."
He was a law professor at the University of Chicago when in 2002, he joined the Bush administration as legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense. In October 2003 he was appointed as a United States Assistant Attorney General, leading the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice under Attorney General John Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General James Comey. He resigned in July 2004. He wrote a book about his experiences there called The Terror Presidency (2007).
Goldsmith, along with Benjamin Wittes and Robert M. Chesney, is a co-founder and contributor to the Lawfare Blog.
Goldsmith attended and graduated from Pine Crest School in 1980. He then matriculated and graduated from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1984. He earned a second B.A. with first class honours from the University of Oxford in 1986, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989, an M.A. from Oxford in 1991, and a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law in 1992. He clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1989 to 1990, and for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1990 to 1991.
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