I’m plugging for one of my former Professors now. I was in my second year of law school when Professor Jack Goldsmith came to Harvard. There was an uproar among the other Professors about the school bringing in a monster who worked for Bush. The faculty seemed to be believe that every single person who worked for Bush liked to personally torture detainees in the White House basement. On the plus side for me, nobody wanted to take him that year. I ended up getting in a class on Presidential power with him and about 15 other students. Almost all were Federalist Society members. He was easily the best Professor I had at Harvard. I talked to a current student who says that his classes are now among the most popular there.

Professor Goldsmith has basically put his Presidential Powers class into a book form. If it is anything like his class, this will give us the most thoughtful, conservative understanding of the legal underpinnings of the War on Terror we’ve had to date. Ed Whelen over at National Review has been covering Goldsmith’s legal thoughts about the War on Terror. Jeffery Rosen has a long article in the New York times about Goldsmith’s tenure at the Justice Department and his fight to push back against the very bad and un-conservative jurisprudence being pushed by White House hacks. If you want to really understand the War on Terror, this book is a must read. I’ve already pre-ordered mine.