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Yesterday, he nominated Michael Chertoff ’75—also a graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS)—to replace Tom Ridge ’67 as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On Friday, Bush tapped Robert B. Zoellick—a graduate of HLS and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG)—to serve as deputy secretary of state. And on Monday, Bush appointed Harvard Business School (HBS) and HLS graduate Allan B. Hubbard to act as a top economic policy adviser and director of the White...
Goldsmith faced criticism last month from a handful of Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration devise a policy justifying harsh treatment of detainees. Goldsmith’s predecessor as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel signed a now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 memo, which said that torturing suspected terrorists “may be justified” under...
Newsweek also reported late last month that Goldsmith voiced his concerns over the 2002 memo in a “tense meeting” with White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales last June. Gonzales, a 1982 HLS graduate, is Bush’s nominee for attorney general...
...recent media reports have done little to assuage one of Goldsmith’s staunchest critics, Elizabeth S. Bartholet ’62, who holds the Wasserstein chair in public interest law at HLS...
More than 80 percent of the HLS faculty voted to grant Goldsmith a tenured position last spring. And when Goldsmith’s critics aired their objections to his appointment publicly, many longtime Harvard professors rallied to his defense, praising his scholarship and his commitment to teaching...