Jack Goldsmith

Jack Goldsmith
Goldsmith in 2019
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
In office
October 2003  July 2004
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byJay S. Bybee
Succeeded byDaniel Levin (acting)
Personal details
Born
Jack Landman Goldsmith III

(1962-09-26) September 26, 1962
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
EducationWashington and Lee University (BA)
University of Oxford (BA, MA)
Yale University (JD)

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. Writing in The New York Times, Jeffrey Rosen described him as being "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament".

In addition to being a professor at Harvard, Goldsmith is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a co-founder of the Lawfare Blog along with Brookings fellow Benjamin Wittes and Texas Law professor Robert M. Chesney.