Jack Landman Goldsmith

Harvard Law School

Learned Hand Professor

1575 Massachusetts

Areeda 233

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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A Theory of Customary International Law

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A Theory of Customary International Law

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 63
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 13 Jan 1999
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Law School
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A Theory of Customary International Law

University of Chicago Law Review, Fall 1999
Posted: 21 Jan 1999
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Law School

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Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 108
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Nov 2000
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Law School
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The Presidency After Trump v. United States

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Mar 2025
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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separation of powers, trump v. united states, immunity, presidential immunity, removal power, take care clause

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The Rise of Nonbinding International Agreements: An Empirical, Comparative, and Normative Analysis

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 90, 2023, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2023
Curtis Bradley, Jack Landman Goldsmith and Oona A. Hathaway
The University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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international law, foreign relations law, nonbinding international agreements

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The New International Law Scholarship

Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 126
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 May 2006
Eric A. Posner and Jack Landman Goldsmith
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Law for States: International Law, Constitutional Law, Public Law

Harvard Law Review, 2009, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-16
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 11 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2009
Jack Landman Goldsmith, Daryl J. Levinson and Daryl J. Levinson
Harvard Law School and New York University School of LawNew York University School of Law
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Terrorism and the Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention Models

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, 2008, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1055501
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Dec 2007
Robert Chesney and Jack Landman Goldsmith
University of Texas School of Law and Harvard Law School
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terrorism, military detention, enemy combatant, conspiracy, material support

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International Law and Institutions in the Trump Era

German Yearbook of International Law, 2019, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Jan 2019
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Shannon Mercer
Harvard Law School and Independent
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The Internet and the Dormant Commerce Clause

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Nov 2000
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Alan Sykes
Harvard Law School and Stanford University - Law School
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The Constitutional Validity of Military Commissions

The Green Bag, Vol. 5, Spring 2002
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Jan 2002
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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military commissions, military tribunals, commander in chief, declaration of war, terrorism, laws of war, armed conflict

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Treaties, Human Rights, and Conditional Consent

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 May 2000
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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The Internet and the Legitimacy of Remote Cross-Border Searches

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Oct 2001
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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The Limits of International Law Fifteen Years Later

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-12, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 768
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2024
Eric A. Posner and Jack Landman Goldsmith
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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international law

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Military Tribunals and Legal Culture: What a Difference Sixty Years Makes

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Jun 2002
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Presidential Control Over International Law

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 131, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-4
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 29 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2018
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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executive agreements, treaties, customary international law, presidential power

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Sosa, Customary International Law, and the Continuing Relevance of Erie

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 120, 2007, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 114
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Aug 2006
Curtis Bradley, Jack Landman Goldsmith and David H. Moore
The University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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customary international law, federal common law, alien tort statute

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The Failed Transparency Regime for Executive Agreements: An Empirical and Normative Analysis

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 134, No. 2, pp. 629-725, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-35, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 20-15
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 28 May 2020 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2020
Oona A. Hathaway, Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
Yale University - Law School, The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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Foreign Affairs, Nondelegation, and the Major Questions Doctrine

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 849, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 24-05
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2024
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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nondelegation doctrine, foreign affairs, major questions doctrine, presidential power

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Review of Harold Hongju Koh, The Trump Administration and International Law

Forthcoming, American Journal of International Law
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Jan 2019
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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Foreign Sovereign Immunity, Individual Officials, and Human Rights Litigation

Green Bag 2D, Vol. 13, p. 9, 2009, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-05
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2014
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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sovereign immunity, human rights litigation, alien tort statute

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Obama's AUMF Legacy

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2017
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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aumf, obama administration, war on terror, international law, military detention, targeting

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U.S. Civil Litigation and International Terrorism

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Jun 2002
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Ryan Goodman
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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State Regulation of Online Behavior: The Dormant Commerce Clause and Geolocation

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 22-21
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2022
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Eugene Volokh
Harvard Law School and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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dormant commerce clause, geolocation, internet platform regulation, social media, constitutional law, federalism

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The California Effect, Process-Based Regulations, and the Dormant Commerce Clause

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 22-35
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2022
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Alan Sykes
Harvard Law School and Stanford University - Law School
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The Protean Take Care Clause

164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 837 (2016)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Oct 2016
Jack Landman Goldsmith and John F. Manning
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Domestic Officer Suits

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-06
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2014
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School
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sovereign immunity, Ex parte Young, human rights litigation, Alien Tort Statute

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Statutory Foreign Affairs Preemption

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Feb 2001
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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The Growth of Press Freedoms in the United States Since 9/11

Leaks, National Security, and Freedom of the Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Apr 2020
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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Congress's Intimate Involvement in Managing the Forever War

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 05 May 2023
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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The Relative Insignificance of the Immunity Holding in Trump v. United States (and What Is Really Important in the Decision)

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 24-28
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Oct 2024
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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Prudence, Role Morality, and Restraint: Judge Wilkinson on the Separation of Powers

110 Virginia Law Review Online 269 (2024), Harvard Public Law Working Paper 24-18, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-01
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2025
Katherine Mims Crocker and Jack Landman Goldsmith
Texas A&M University School of Law and Harvard Law School
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J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Judge Wilkinson, Judging, Separation of Powers, Prudence, Role Morality, Judicial Restraint, National Security, Tribute, Fourth Circuit, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Structure

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The President's Completion Power

115 Yale L.J. 2280 (2006)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Oct 2016
Jack Landman Goldsmith and John F. Manning
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Congressional Authorization and the War on Terrorism

Posted: 22 Apr 2005
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School

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War, congressional authorization, terrorism, presidential authority

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Unilateral Regulation of the Internet: A Modest Defence

Posted: 17 Sep 2000
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School

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The New Formalism in United States Foreign Relations Law

University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 70, Pp. 1395-1438, 1999
Posted: 24 Jan 2000
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School

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Regulation of the Internet: Three Persistent Fallacies

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 73, Pp. 1119-1131, 1998
Posted: 17 Jan 2000
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Harvard Law School

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Pinochet and International Human Rights Litigation

Posted: 17 Jun 1999
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School

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Erie and the Irrelevance of Legal Positivism

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 4, 1998
Posted: 03 Dec 1998
Jack Landman Goldsmith and Steven D. Walt
Harvard Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

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Federal Courts and the Incorporation of International Law

Harvard Law Review, June 1998
Posted: 29 May 1998
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School

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Customary International Law as Federal Common Law: A Critique of the Modern Position

in the Harvard Law Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (1997).
Posted: 11 Jun 1997
Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School

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