Take it from there trying to field as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter or facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is our author, he is the james munro distinguished professor at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow for the study of the presidency and hes one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers in the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who youre probably aware of has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during an early. On the war on terror, jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency in venues like the atlantic on the blog and books like the
The study of the presidency and he is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who as youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense tenure in the bush Administrations Office of Legal Counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the moderate presidency impinges like the atlantic on the law flare law, and books like the terror presidency, and power in constraint. His latest book also highly recommended is also the subject for one of the last in person Public Events we had at cato back in early march for the lockdown. So jack, thanks for coming back so soon, if only virtually. Saikrishna im also a great admirer of your previous b
Will give us the overview of the book, jack will give us some comments on the book and we will take it from there and tried to yield as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter, facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is her author Saikrishna Prakash, the distinguished professor of law at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow at uba center for the study of the presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense ten year in the Bush Administration office of legal capital during a key early. In the work. Jack is one of ou
Especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book, imperial from the beginning the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l. Shaddock professor of law at harvard and someone who, as youre probably aware, has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the bush Administrations Office of Legal Counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency in venues like the atlantic and books like the terror Prime Minister city and presidency and power and constraint. His latest book is in hoffas shadow, one of the last inperson events we had at cato back in early march before the lockdown so, jack, thanks for coming back so soon if only virtually. Sai, im also a great add meurer of your admirer of your previous book, imperial from the beginning, but if youll forgive me for saying so, i think its on
This program over the nationwide network cspan. Three, which is American History. The people are in attendance of this meeting today. Were in the how auditorium of the Boston Campus Marymount University in arlington virginia, just a very crusty from washington, d. C. These, are all James Madison fellows who were awarded a 24,000 graduate fellowship to study the us constitution. And theyve been attending a four week summer institute, the constitution here and theyre just about to conclude. So if you happen to be a teacher either middle school, high school, you teach government history or civics courses, and youre in our program. If you know someone that teaches courses, we encourage them. Visit our website, which is just James Madison dot gov and youll find about the opportunity to study under the James Madison fellowship. Now id like to turn the time over to the Foundation Director education, dr. Jeff morrison, who will introduce our guest speaker. Dr. Morrison. Well, you. Mr. Larson a