‘After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency’

Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and co-founder of Lawfare. He teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, cybersecurity, international law, internet law, foreign relations law, and conflict of laws.  Before coming to Harvard, Goldsmith served as assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003–2004, and special counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002–2003.  He was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997–2002, and at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1994–1997. Before entering the academy, Goldsmith was an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy from 1990–1991, for Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson from 1989–1990, and for Judge George Aldrich on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal from 1991–1993.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas is a nonresident senior fellow with Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, senior research director for the White House Transition Project, a fellow with the Center for Presidential Transition at the Partnership for Public Service, and secretary of the Governance Institute. Tenpas is a scholar of the American presidency focusing on White House staffing, presidential transitions, and the intersection of politics and policy within the presidency (e.g., presidential reelection campaigns, trends in presidential travel, and polling).