Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor and author of "The Terror Presidency," an insider's look at legal issues the Bush administration faced in the war on terror, will deliver the University of Colorado Law School's 52nd Annual John R. Coen Lecture on April 9.
He will speak at 4 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom in the Wolf Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
From 2003 to 2004 Goldsmith served in the Bush administration under U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft as an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. His job was to help the administration deal with legal issues related to the war on terror, including the definition of torture, the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to the war on terror and the Iraq War, the detention and trial of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and wiretapping laws.
Goldsmith is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Before joining the Harvard Law faculty, he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia Law School.