Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog

Harvard Law School is hosting in a couple of weeks what is certain to be a very interesting small conference on the Alien Tort Statute. I was lucky enough to be one of the invitees, addressing th...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/10/freely-speculating-on-future-of-ats-in.html

I see that I'm quoted by Mark Mazetti and Scott Shane in their New York Times article today, CIA Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders (July 13, 2009). I'm trying hard to maintain radio silence ...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/07/nyt-cia-assassination-story.html

I have a new essay just published yesterday in the European Journal of International Law, titled (if link doesn't work and you still want the piece, email me and I'll send it that way): The Rise...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-new-ejil-article-on-rise-of.html

Here’s hoping liberty prevails in Teheran. (I've changed the color in minor gesture of solidarity.) I understand that from the White House's point of view, it's all ... complicated. Indeed it i...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/06/freedom-in-iran.html

The Chicago Journal of International Law has a new symposium issue coming out on the “multipolar” world and its implications for international law and institutions. I’m pleased to say I hav...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/06/un-collective-security-and-us-security.html

I fixed a turkey breast done in the slow cooker, very tender and juicy, and a bunch of vegetables grilled. The almond creme cake from the expensive baker was a disaster, though, with the crust ...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/06/jean-marie-birthday.html

The point has been repeatedly and correctly made many times that the Obama administration’s political - ‘extralegal’? - pressures to force secured and senior creditors to take lesser positi...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/05/political-restructuring-of-creditor.html

I, for one, welcome our Tweenbot overlords! 

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/tweenbots.html

Via the great Greg Mankiw blog, this NYT interactive quiz - 19 sample questions from the AP macroecon exam . I got one wrong out of the 19 - but while embarrassing, I did think the question ambig...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/sample-questions-from-ap-macro-exam.html

(Cross posted with minor edits from Opinio Juris). I am fundamentally in agreement with the Bradley-Goldsmith view as to why the Alien Tort Statute is a bad idea. I would simply repeal it as l...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/bradley-and-goldsmith-in-wp-on-ats.html

Over at the New York Times’s Room for Debate Blog, a discussion of the newly released Bush-era memos on torture and CIA interrogation, and the decision by the Obama administration not to seek ...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/nyt-for-debate-blog-on-torture-memos.html

And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-easter.html

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Thanks to Mike Innes over at CTLab , (where I’ve been blogging for the past week on robots and PW Singer’s Wired for War), this note on a journal devoted to “crit...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/terrorism-studies.html

Fred Siegel, the historian who wrote the biography of Rudy Giuliani a couple of years ago, has a post up at the blog of Telos, the journal of critical theory, titled "Taking Communism Away from t...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/fred-siegel-on-origins-of-american.html

The Obama administration’s new foreign policy at this early point in time is mostly built around the proposition of ‘engagement’. As many folks have pointed out - long preceding the Obama a...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/04/resolving-tension-between-liberal.html

Complex Terrain Laboratory is hosting an ONLINE DISCUSSION NEXT WEEK  on PW Singer’s new book on robotics and war, Wired for War (starting Monday, March 30).  Singer is participating and, ha...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/ctlab-symposium-on-pw-singer-wired-for.html

(Given the recent Obama administration review of the Predator campaign in Pakistan , I thought it would be a useful thing to put this discussion on the table.  Welcome Instapunditeers, and thank...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-targeted-killing-and-why-is.html

Interesting discussion tonight in my financial crisis class on compensation systems on Wall Street, and the misalignment of incentives short term and long term. The fundamental misalignment of i...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/compensation-models-on-wall-street.html

Althouse finds true love . Actually, I want to say congratulations to Althouse’s beloved, for having pursued and wooed and won Professor Althouse via quite possibly the most unlikely vehicle fo...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/true-love-and-congratulations-to.html

The world longs for an agreeable America. America longs to be agreeable. Why not, after all? After the hardness and harshness of the Bush years, you are either with us or against us, our war agai...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/ne-serait-ce-point-un-lasse-de-son.html

Jose Guardia, of Barcepundit, posts in memoriam for the victims of the Madrid Atocha train station bombing , five years on. My family and I were living in Spain when it occurred; my views on it w...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/madrid-11-march-five-years-on.html

The NYT Room for Debate blog is kind enough occasionally to invite me to contribute on law topics. We recently had a mini-debate on the question of whether Congress should empanel some kind of �...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-truth-commission-debate-at-nyt-room.html

(Cross-posted from Opinio Juris.) Two hundred years of Lincoln, February 12, 1809. ... what, if anything, does that Lincoln fellow, the rural rube from the wild edges of the American frontier, h...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-200th-birthday-to-abraham-lincoln.html

One of my students composed the following haikus based, he said, on a lecture last week in my financial crisis course ... Stress from the crisis Causes my hair to fall out We will form a gang. ...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/02/haiku-based-on-lecture-in-my-financial.html

Expansion and leverage take place on the basis of assets; contraction and de-leveraging, however, take place by institution and market. The process is relatively smooth and incremental in expansi...

http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2009/02/asymmetry-of-expansion-and-contraction.html