Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.
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Reform of the presidency remains vital—for a possible second-term President Trump and for future office-abusing presidents.
The legitimacy of the Justice Department’s decision on Hunter Biden is hard enough to achieve without self-serving commentary from the president.
What recent successful governance reforms teach about future reforms of the presidency.
Part 3 of a three-part series on oral arguments in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, a case that raises the question whether the U.S. government can criminally prosecute corporations owned by foreign states.
Part 2 of a three-part series on oral arguments in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, a case that raises the question whether the U.S. government can criminally prosecute corporations owned by foreign states.
Part 1 of a three-part series on oral arguments in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, a case that raises the question whether the U.S. government can criminally prosecute corporations owned by foreign states.
Congress has made it harder for presidents to replace a fired or acting inspector general with a non-independent official.