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20 Sep 2024, 6:01 am by Elizabeth Goitein
These dysfunctions often serve to bar, delay, or deter publication—outcomes that not only curtail the authors’ freedom of speech, but also “lead to an impoverished public discourse” on national security matters, as Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway have written. [read post]
27 Oct 2012, 10:25 am by Kenneth Anderson
The second article is a feature profile by Karen de Young of White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan, “A CIA Veteran Transforms US Counterterrorism Policy” (October 24); Chesney and Jack Goldsmith each comment on it at Lawfare. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 2:56 pm by INFORRM
On the same day, judgement was given for the defendant in Goldsmith v Bissett-Powell [2022] EWHC 1591 (QB) by Julian Knowles J (heard on 13 January 2022). [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 5:09 pm
SCHUMER: It's also been reported that the head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Jack Goldsmith, respected lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School, expressed reservations about the program. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 6:36 am
(See Jack Goldsmith's memoir The Terror Presidency, pp. 22-23; according to Goldsmith, other War Council members included Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William J. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 2:58 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Like Jack Goldsmith, whose new book on the accountable executive is forthcoming and who as OLC head during a key time in the Bush administration withdrew opinions by John Yoo that Goldsmith regarded as unsupportably aggressive, Trevor viewed these effects as salutary. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 9:30 am
The author of “Engines of Liberty” talks with the ACLU about the power of citizen activists to change the law. [read post]
2 Jan 2025, 7:47 pm by Marty Lederman
  See, for example, my colleague Steve Vladeck’s Substack post, and Jack Goldsmith's tweet.In this post, I’ll merely identify a handful of the most inexplicable or indefensible aspects of the brief (apart from its inappropriate, obsequious tone). [read post]
8 Jan 2025, 5:55 am by Harold Hongju Koh
­­­Editor’s note: This article concludes the Just Security Symposium on Harold Hongju Koh’s “The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century”. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 7:52 pm by Kenneth Anderson
Jack Goldsmith notes (at Lawfare):Johnson appears to take the view that if the group falls under the AUMF (the domestic basis of authority), the President is legally authorized to target all its members in a country unwilling or unable to suppress them (which is the U.N. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:04 am
Among the books which extensively detail the matters written of here are Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, Philippe Sands' The Torture Team, Jack Goldsmith's The Terror Presidency (Goldsmith is a former head of the Office of Legal Counsel), and Steven Wax's Kafka Comes To America. [read post]
27 May 2011, 10:20 am by Deborah Pearlstein
As I think I can safely say based on past discussions (not to mention recent posts), neither Bobby Chesney, nor Ben Wittes, nor Jack Goldsmith, nor Marty Lederman, nor I (all oft-times on opposing sides of these issues) think such a ban is a good idea. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 4:04 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 I have come round to agree with something Jack Goldsmith said over at Lawfare a couple of months ago, that as far as international law goes, there is not that much more to be said that hasn’t already been said. [read post]
29 May 2009, 12:41 am
However, Attorney General Goldsmith warned Prime Minister Blair in 2003 that the invasion of Iraq could lead to possible prosecution for the crime of aggression because it was recognized by customary international law and therefore imported into the domestic law, a notion later affirmed by the House of Lords in R v. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 3:01 pm by Ethan Leib
”   Perhaps recognizing this, Samantar relied primarily on a different theory, not yet adopted by any court but advanced by Curt Bradley and Jack Goldsmith in a recent Green Bag article on the FSIA: namely, that a suit against a state officer for his or her official acts should be treated as a suit against the state itself. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 9:00 pm by Rodger Citron
As Professor Jack Goldsmith succinctly summarized: Kennedy’s progressive votes on social issues and the death penalty, and his rejection of constitutional originalism, camouflaged the reality that he usually voted with the right side of the Court. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 7:57 am by Erin Miller
Jonathan Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy commends Professor Jack Goldsmith, a witness for the Democrats, for telling the Committee yesterday that the “decision to nominate a highly qualified individual who swims in the broad mainstream of American legal life – a description that Kagan easily satisfies – warrants deference from the Senate. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:35 am by Ryan Goodman
(In our Atlantic essay, we address and strongly reject those like Jack Goldsmith who contend otherwise.) [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 6:45 pm by David Luban
Stuart Taylor has responded to my post earlier today, and I have added his response as an update to that earlier post (I think it's easier on the reader to see them in one place). [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 11:45 am
That includes not only officials within the Executive branch who are very strong defenders of executive prerogatives, such as Jim Comey, Jack Goldsmith, Pat Philbin, Peter Keisler, numerous JAG lawyers, including Alberto Mora and Tom Romig, various Republican U.S. [read post]