4th Annual Edward J. Shoen Leading Scholars Lecture

Jack Goldsmith

This Thursday the College of Law will host Jack Goldsmith, who is delivering the 4th annual Edward J. Shoen Leading Scholars Lecture. Goldsmith will be speaking on presidential accountability post-9/11. The Shoen Lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are encouraged.

Goldsmith is the Harry J. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, a position he has held since 2005. He served as the Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel from October 2003 through July 2004, and as Special Counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003. You can read more about Goldsmith on the College of Law News webpage.

If you are interested in reading some of Goldsmith’s scholarship, be sure to check out one of the following books from the Law Library collection: The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgement Inside the Bush Administration (2007), Who Controls the Internet?  Illusions of a Borderless World (2006), The Limits of International Law (2005); or download one of his many journal articles from HeinOnline.