Executive power and the Constitution

Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a cofounder of Lawfare. His books include After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency (with Bob Bauer); In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth; and The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration, an account of his time in government. He has written widely on constitutional law, presidential power, national security, terrorism, international law, and internet law. From 2003 to 2004, Goldsmith served as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, and before that as special counsel to the general counsel of the Department of Defense. He previously taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. Goldsmith clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Judge George Aldrich of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, a BA and MA from the University of Oxford, and a BA from Washington and Lee University.

Barbara A. Perry is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center, where she codirects the Presidential Oral History Program. She has authored or edited 17 books on presidents, First Ladies, the Kennedy family, the Supreme Court, and civil rights and civil liberties. Perry has conducted more than 160 interviews for the George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama Presidential Oral History Projects; interviewed President Bill Clinton; and directed the Edward Kennedy Oral History Project's conclusion. She served as a U.S. Supreme Court fellow and has worked for both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate. Perry earned a BA in political science from the University of Louisville, an MA in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, and a PhD in government from the University of Virginia.