3/24/08--Boston College Law School and the BC Initiative for the Study of Constitutional Democracy are pleased to present "The Constitution and the War on Terror," a lecture by Harvard Law professor and former Assistant US Attorney General Jack Goldsmith.

The event will take place on Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30 pm in McGuinn auditorium (McGuinn 121), on the Boston College Chestnut Hill campus.

Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, has written a number of texts regarding international law and the Internet. From October 2003 to July 2004, he served under Attorney General John Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General James Comey as an Assistant United States Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. That office provides legal opinions and advice to the president and the executive branch on legal issues of special importance or complexity, including the limits of executive power.

Goldsmith is the author of the book The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration, from W.W. Norton (2007).