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Elizabeth Bartholet ’62, the Wasserstein professor of public interest law, was quoted yesterday in The Boston Globe saying that “the faculty was seriously at fault for not inquiring more deeply, prior to making this appointment, into any role Jack Goldsmith may have played in providing legal advice facilitating and justifying torture...
...Goldsmith said that he is legally barred from commenting about the third memo, the March draft on removing detainees from Iraqi soil. “I can talk about the legal arguments, but I can’t talk about the memo itself or its context,” Goldsmith said...
...Though Goldsmith has yet to unpack the cardboard boxes piled halfway to the ceiling of his Griswold Hall office, he already raves about his new academic home. “This is the best place in the world—both in terms of faculty and students—to study international law,” he said...
Only one professor of about 30 contacted by The Crimson for comment would speak on-the-record against the school’s decision to hire Goldsmith. Detlev F. Vagts ’48, who is the Bemis professor of international law, said in an interview yesterday that he voted against the appointment because of “basic differences” with Goldsmith’s scholarly method...
Bartholet told The Crimson yesterday that she would not comment for an article on Goldsmith, nor would she confirm the quotes attributed to her in The Globe...