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Jack Goldsmith

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Co-founder of Lawfare and the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (2003–2004) in the George W. Bush administration; national-security-law scholar.

Jack Goldsmith is a co-founder of Lawfare and the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (Source: lawfaremedia.org). He co-founded Lawfare in 2010 with Benjamin Wittes and Robert Chesney (Source: law.utexas.edu).

Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General heading the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2003–2004 during the George W. Bush administration, an experience he recounted in The Terror Presidency. His scholarship addresses national-security law, internet governance, and the separation of powers; he is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His work and Lawfare's coverage intersect with AI policy on questions of executive power, surveillance, and the governance of emerging national-security technologies.

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