Laurence Silberman

Laurence Hirsch Silberman ( born October 12, 1935 in York, Pennsylvania) is an American diplomat, judges and university professors, the deputy among other U.S. Attorney General was.

Life

Studies and climb to the Deputy Attorney General

After schooling Silberman first studied at Dartmouth College and graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. After he then completed his military service in the U.S. Army, he studied 1958-1961 Law at the Law School of Harvard University and completed this study with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ).

He then worked from 1962 to 1963 lecturer at the Law School of the University of Hawaii before he worked as a lawyer then. In 1969 he entered the Government service, became only Solicitor and then from 1970 to 1973 Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Labor ( Under Secretary of Labor ).

Then the Republicans associated Silberman in 1974 as Deputy Minister of Justice Deputy Attorney General before he was from 1975 to 1977 during the presidency of Gerald Ford 's Ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

With the inauguration of Democratic President Jimmy Carter, he left government service in 1977 and was only a year a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC Then he was there 1978-1985 as a visiting scientist ( Visiting Fellow ) worked well beyond 1979-1983 Vice- president of strategic planning, legal and government affairs of the Crocker National Bank. In addition to additional employees at the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, an advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense, he was also active in the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Federalist Scoiety as well as the advisory board of the National Strategy Information Center.

Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Iraq Intelligence Commission

In October 1985, Silberman judge was on the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over the District of Columbia ( U.S. Court of Appeals ) and held that role until the transfer to the so-called senior status in November 2000. During this time he worked in 2003, among others, in the process District of Columbia v. Heller.

Besides his work as a judge, he took in the following years also true several teaching positions in professional law and was the first from 1987 to 1994 professor at Georgetown University, and then from 1995 to 1996 at New York University ( NYU). While a new professorship at Georgetown University from 1997 to 1999 he was in 1998 also professor at the Law School of Harvard University.

In February 2004, he was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush along with Chuck Robb, a former Democratic governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator, until May 2005 Co-Chairman of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass appointed destruction, a Commission which dealt with secret knowledge of the U.S. weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Other members of the Commission were the senator for Arizona, John McCain, the former legal advisor to the White House, Lloyd Cutler, the former President of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Patricia Wald, president of Yale University, Rick Levin, the former director of the National Security Agency, Bill Studeman, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Vest Mars Tiller and the former president of the Rand Corporation, Henry Rowen.

2008, the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to him for his services, in addition to the peer Golden Congressional Medal of Honor one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States.