Jack Goldsmith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jack Goldsmith
Occupation	Jurist
Date Of Birth	Sep 26, 1962(1962-09-26)
Age	62
Birthplace	Memphis
Country	United States
Birth City	Memphis
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jack Goldsmith Biography

Jack Goldsmith is one of the most popular and richest Jurist who was born on September 26, 1962 in Memphis, Memphis, United States. Jack Landman Goldsmith (born September 26, 1962) is an American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor who has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law. He has been “widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament.”

In August 2002, before Goldsmith joined the Bush administration, the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, had issued three documents, which became known as the Torture Memos, or the Bybee memo (referring to one in particular.) The Bybee memo was directed to the Acting General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency in relation to interrogation of a detainee, Abu Zubaydah. It authorized certain methods of torture (characterized by the Bush Administration as “enhanced interrogation techniques”) for use with detained enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and other locations.

In October 2003, Goldsmith was appointed to head the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal guidance to the president and all executive branch agencies, including those tasked with the interrogation of enemy combatants. This gave him the base for influencing debates within the Bush administration regarding the conduct of the War on Terror.

In addition, on March 14, 2003, after Goldsmith had been hired to work as a legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, John Yoo wrote a legal opinion at the request of the DOD General Counsel, five days before the US invasion of Iraq, concluding that federal laws did not prohibit torture by interrogators of foreign subjects overseas. (This memo was not revealed until 2008.)

By September 2002, Jack Goldsmith had been hired to work as a legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, William J. Haynes II.

Jack Goldsmith Net Worth

Jack Goldsmith is one of the richest Jurist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jack Goldsmith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Goldsmith grew up the stepson of Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien, widely believed to have played a role in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Goldsmith attended and graduated from Pine Crest School in 1980. He matriculated and graduated from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1984. He earned a second B.A. with first class honours from the University of Oxford in 1986, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989, an M.A. from Oxford in 1991, and a diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law in 1992. He clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1989 to 1990, and for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1990 to 1991.

He worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling from 1994-1996. He served as a professor at the University of Virginia Law School before going to the University of Chicago.

In 2002, Goldsmith joined the Bush administration as the Special Counsel to General Counsel of the Department of Defense, at a time when the government was developing plans for responding to the 9/11 attacks. In April 2003 he was nominated to be a United States Assistant Attorney General, tasked with leading the prestigious Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. The Senate confirmed him in October 2003. He resigned in July 2004 to join Harvard Law School. He wrote a book about his experiences there called The Terror Presidency (2007).

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In April and May 2004, the Abu Ghraib prisoner torture and abuse scandal broke. In June, the Bybee Torture Memo was leaked. Goldsmith considered it to be “tendentious, overly broad and legally flawed.” He worked to have the memos changed. Including his challenges of White House staff on issues related to domestic surveillance and trials of terrorists, he was successful in moderating some of what he considered to be the previous “constitutional excesses” embraced by the White House.

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Jack Ranked on the list of most popular Jurist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jack Goldsmith celebrates birthday on September 26 of every year.

In 2007, Goldsmith published The Terror Presidency, a memoir about his work in the Bush administration and his thoughts on the legal opinions that were promulgated by the Department of Justice in the war on terror. His discussion covers the definition of torture, the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to the war on terror and the Iraq War, the detention and trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, and wiretapping laws. He is largely sympathetic to the concerns of the Bush administration’s terrorism policies, but believes they made a huge strategic mistake by acting unilaterally rather than seeking congressional consent soon after 9/11. He believed that fear of another attack drove the administration to its focus on the hard power of prerogative, rather than the soft power of persuasion. In the end, he believed the fear and concentration on hard power were counterproductive, both in the war on terror and in the extension of effective executive authority.