Co-Sponsored by the LBJ Library & The University of Texas School of Law
*Schedule is subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will take place in the Jeffers Courtroom at The University of Texas School of Law.
Please contact Laura Castro at lcastro@law.utexas.edu or (512) 232-1229 for more details.
Thursday, April 8
Keynote address, 6:00 p.m.: Jack Goldsmith, “The Second Terror Presidency” in the LBJ Auditorium
Friday, April 9:
Session 1, 9:15-10:30: Clement Fatovic, Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power (to be reviewed and commented on by Bernadette Meyler)
Session 2, 10:45-12: Nomi Claire Lazar, States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies (Gordon Silverstein)
Break for Lunch
Session 3, 1:30-2:45: Benjamin Kleinerman, The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (Michael Van Alstine)
Session 4, 3:00-4:15: Peter Shane, Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy (Van Alstine)
Session 5, 4:30-5:45: Hal Bruff, Bad Advice: Bush’s Lawyers in the War on Terror (Bobby Chesney)
Saturday, April 10
Session 6, 9:00-10:15: Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule, The New Constitutional Order: Executive Government in the Administrative (Bill Scheuerman)
Session 7, 10:30-11:45: Works in progress by Heidi Kitosser and Rahul Sagar (Harold Bruff)
Break for Lunch
Session 8, 1-2:15: Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson, “Designing a Constitutional Dictatorship” (Paul Caresse)
2:30-3:30: Final free-form discussion
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Jack Goldsmith Keynotes "Executive Power" Symposium Co-Sponsored by the LBJ Library and School of Law
AUSTIN, Texas - The LBJ Library and Friends of the LBJ Library at The University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with the School of Law, will host "An Evening with Jack Goldsmith" on Thursday, April 8, at 6 p.m. in the LBJ Auditorium.
The talk by Goldsmith-a Harvard Law School professor who wrote "The Terror Presidency" and served in the George W. Bush administration-is free and open to the public.
Goldsmith will speak on "The Second Terror Presidency: Obama's Embrace of the Bush Counterterrorism Program," discussing President Obama's approach to executive power.
Goldsmith's talk is the keynote event for a symposium at The University of Texas Law School on "Executive Power" on Friday and Saturday, April 9-10, in the Jeffers Auditorium. The symposium, also open to the public, will focus on a number of recently published books on executive power by political theorists and law professors, including former University of Texas School of Law Professor Harold Hastings Bruff, a constitutional and administrative law professor at the University of Colorado Law School.
Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he specializes in national security law, international law and presidential power. He is the author of five books and dozens of articles on these and other subjects. Before coming to Harvard, Goldsmith was assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and special counsel to the general counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003.
His recent book, "The Terror Presidency," has been deemed "chilling" by the New York Times and "an important book-a genuine service to national interest" by the Los Angeles Times. Copies of "The Terror Presidency" will be available for sale and signing prior to the program at the LBJ Auditorium. Guests may place advance orders with the LBJ Museum Store by calling 512-232-2396.
The LBJ Auditorium-the location for the Goldsmith keynote address-is on the lower level of the LBJ Complex on the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Access to the auditorium will be through the lobby of the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
The Jeffers Auditorium-the site of the symposium-is on the third floor of the School of Law in Room 3.140.
Maps and directions for the School of Law are available online.