Kenneth Anderson

Currently Teaching

• LAW-661-001 Int'l Business Transactions
• LAW-795-008 Just War Theory
• LAW-856-001 Corporate Finance
• LAW-874-001 Law of Venture Capital

Areas of Specialization

• Business and Finance
• International Business
• International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
• Nonprofit Organizations

Degrees & Universities

• J.D., Harvard Law School 1986
• B.A., University of California at Los Angeles 1983

• Selected Publications

  • Kenneth Anderson, Foreign Law and the U.S. Constitution, 131 Policy Rev. (June - July 2005). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Book Review: Squaring the Circle? Reconciling Sovereignty and Global Governance Through Global Government Networks, 118 Harv. L. Rev. 1255 (Feb. 2005). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson & David Rieff, Global Civil Society: A Sceptical View, in Global Civil Society, 26-39 (Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor, eds., Sage Publications 2005). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Role of the United States Military Lawyer in Projecting a Vision of the Laws of War, 2 Chi. J. Int. L. 445 (Fall 2003). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, A Qualified Defense of Military Commissions and US Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, 85 Harv. J. of L. & Pub. Policy 2 (Spring 2002).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Microcredit: Fulfillling or Belying the Universalist Morality of Globalizing Markets?, 5 Yale Hum. Rights & Dev. L. J. 85 (2002). SSRN Link

• • More Publications...

• • Kenneth Anderson, Goodbye to All That? A Requiem for Neoconservatism, 22 Am. U. Intl. L. Rev. 277 (Mar. 2007).
  • Kenneth Anderson, What the Swiss Miss (Review of Friedrich Durrenmatt, Selected Writings), Wall St. J. 8 (Oct. 21, 2006). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Law and Terror, 139 Policy Rev. (Oct./Nov. 2006). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, An Overview of the Landmines Crisis: Why a Supply-Side Solution to Ban Production, Export, and Use Must Accompany Demand-Side Efforts at Clearance, in Meeting on the Global Landmines Crisis, Collected Papers ( ).
  • Kenneth Anderson, It's Congress's War, Too, N.Y. Times Mag. (Sept. 3, 2006). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Doomed Internationalist (Review of Francis Fukuyama, After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads), Times Literary Supp. (Sept. 2006). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Goodbye to All That? A Requiem for Neoconservatism (Review Essay of Francis Fukuyama, After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads, and Peter Beinart, The Good Fight: Why Democrats - and Only Democrats - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again), (Aug. 4, 2006). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Courtiers of the Cutting Edge: Musical Amateurs and Amateurism in the Age of the Professional, 5188 Times Literary Supp. (Jan. 10, 2006).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Remarks by an Idealist on the Realism of 'The Limits of International Law', 34, No. 2 Ga. J. Intl. & Comp. L. 253, 253-284 (2006). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test the Limits of Moral Equivalency, 10, No. 37 Wkly. Stand. (June 13, 2005). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Humanitarian Inviolability in Crisis: The Meaning of Impartiality and Neutrality for U.N. and NGO Agencies Following the 2003-2004 Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts, 17 Harv. Hum. Rights J. 41 (Spring 2004). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, To Finish the Work We Are In: Abraham Lincoln's Speeches, From Lawyer's Brief to Moral Manifesto (Review of William E. Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America; Daniel Farber, Lincoln's Constitution; Ronald C. White, Jr., Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Address; James Tackach, Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address; Christopher A. Thomas, The Lincoln Memorial and American Life), Times Literay Supp. (May 21, 2003). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Who Owns the Rules of War? The War in Iraq Demands a Rethinking of the International Rules of Conduct, N.Y. Times Mag. 38 (Apr. 13, 2003). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Courtiers of the Cutting Edge: Musical Amateurs and Amateurism in the Age of the Professional, Times Literary Supplement (London) (Jan. 10, 2003). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Where Do We Go From Here? New and Emerging Issues in the Prosecution of War Crimes and Acts of Terrorism, 69 Social Research 1177 (Winter 2002).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Expanded Horizons: Memory, Memorials and Manhattan's Living Skyline (Review of James Sanders, Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies), 5188 Times Literary Supp. 4 (Sept. 6, 2002). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Guatemalan Ways of Death (Review of Allen J. Christenson, Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community; Garrett W. Cook, Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town; Diane M. Nelson, A Finger in the Wound: Body Politic in Quincentennial Guatemala; June C. Nash, Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization), 5185 Times Literay Supplement , 7-8 (Aug. 16, 2002).
  • Kenneth Anderson, What to do with Bin Laden and Al Queda Terrorists?: A Qualified Defense of Military Commissions and the United States Policy on Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, 25, No. 2 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Policy 593, 593-634 (Spring 2002). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, The American Inquisition, in Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing, 301 (Christopher Hitchens & Christopher Caldwell, eds., Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 2002).
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Limits of Pragmatism in American Foreign Policy: Unsolicited Advice to the Bush Administration on Relations With International Nongovernmental Organizations, 2 Chi. J. Intl. L. 371 (Fall 2001). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Law, Language and Terror: Policemen or Soldiers? The Dangers of Misunderstanding the Threat to America (Commentary on 9-11), Times Literary Supp. (Sept. 21, 2001). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Advice to the Bush Administration on Relations with International Nongovernmental Organizations, 2, No. 2 Chi. J. Int. L. (Fall 2001). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, After Seattle: Public International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Democratic Legitimacy in an Era of Globalization: An Essay in Contested Legitimacy, (Sept. 27, 2000). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Reading Wars: Understanding the Debate Over How Best to Teach Children to Read (Book Review), L.A. Times (June 18, 2000). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, A Great Betrayal: How American Conservatives Have Abandoned Parental Rights in the Case of Elian Gonzalez, Times Literary Supp. (May 12, 2000). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Ottawa Convention Banning Landmines, the Role of International Non-governmental Organizations and the Idea of International Civil Society, 11 Eur. J. Intl. L. 91 (Mar. 2000). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Get Smart: The Rise of Authoritarianism and Our Crackpot Culture, (Book Review of W. Kaminer, "Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety"), L.A. Times (Feb. 6, 2000).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Disneyworld is Not Enough: Corporate American and the Religion of Consumption (Reviewing H. Giroux, The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence), Times Literary Supp. (Feb. 4, 2000).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Guest Editor's Introduction to the Symposium: War and the United States Military, Transnatl. L. & Contemp. Probs. (2000).
  • Kenneth Anderson, A Peculiar People: The Mystical and Pragmatic Appeal of Mormonism (Book Review), L.A. Times (Nov. 1999). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Peepshow (Book Review of Bob Woodward, "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate"), L.A. Times (July 18, 1999).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Erotics of Virtue (Book Review of Pauline Reage, "Story of O"), L.A. Times (June 20, 1999).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Israel's Views of the Application of International Humanitarian Law to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in Crimes of War (R. Guttman & D. Rieff, eds., W.W. Norton & Co. 1999).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Reprisal Killings, in Crimes of War (R. Guttman & D. Rieff, eds., W.W. Norton & Co. 1999).
  • Kenneth Anderson, First in the Field: The Unique Mission and Legitimacy of the Red Cross in a Culture of Legality, Times Literary Supp. (London) (July 1998). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Secular Eschatologies and Class Interests of the Internationalized New Class, in Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? (C. Gustafason & P. Juviler, eds., M.E. Sharpe 1998).
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Uses and Abuses of Risk Management: How Men Learnt to Bet Against the Gods (Review of Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, and Lillian Chew, Managing Derivative Risks: The Use and Abuse of Leverage), Times Literary Supp. (London) (Feb. 2, 1997). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Star Trek and the Death of Culterual Relativism in America, Times Literary Supp. (Jan. 3, 1997).
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Remoteness That Betrays Desire, Times Literary Supp. (1997). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Three Roles for the Private Equity Market in Foreign Investments: Comment on Mailander's "Seraching for Liquidity", 13 Am. U. L. Rev. 125 (1997).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Children Going West (Review Essay of Hillary Clinton, It Takes a Village), Times Literary Supp. (London) (July 19, 1996). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, A New Class of Lawyers: The Therapeutic as Rights Talk, 96, No.4 Colum. L. Rev. 1062 (May 1996). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Warrior Ants: The Enduring Threat of the Small War and the Land-mine, Times Literary Supp. (London) (Mar. 1996). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Review Essay: A New Class of Lawyers: The Therapeutic As Rights Talk,, 96 Colum. L. Rev. 1062 (1996). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against the New Class, Times Literary Supp. (London) (Sept. 22, 1995). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, Our Natural Selves (review of Luc Ferry, The New Ecological Order, and Michael Zimmerman, Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity), Times Literary Supp. (London) (Sept. 8, 1995). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Magi of the Great Salt Lake, Times Literary Supp. (London) (Mar. 24, 1995). SSRN Link
  • Kenneth Anderson, 'Landmines and the Developing World,' Symposium on the U.N. and the Developing World, 36 Harv. Intl. L. J. 359 (Spring 1995).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Getting to Know the General: American Conceits About the Rule of Law (Book Review of Steve Albert, "The Case Against the General"), Times Literary Supp. (Sept. 1994).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Sensibility at Nuremberg: A Review Essay on Telford Taylor's The Anatomy of the Nuremburg Trials, 7 Harv. Hum. Rights J. 281 (Spring 1994).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Landmines, A Weapon of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion, in Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Landmines Crisis (K. Cahill, ed., Council on Foreign Relations & Basic Books 1994).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Illiberal Tolerance: An Essay on the Fall of Yugoslavia and the Rise of Multiculturalism in the United States, 33 Va. J. Intl. L. 385 (Winter 1993).
  • Kenneth Anderson, An Overview of the Landmines Crisis: Why a Supply-Side Solution to Ban Production, Export, and Use Must Accompany Demand-Side Efforts at Clearance, in Meeting on the Global Landmines Crisis, Collected Papers (Intl. Comm. of the Red Cross 1993).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Liberals in the Landscape of Political Violence: An Essay on Marzorati, A Painter of Darkness and Lambert, The Hostages Convention, 4 J. Terrorism & Pol. Violence 140 (Summer 1992).
  • Kenneth Anderson, R. Berman, T. Luke, P. Piccone, & M. Taves, Roundtable on Populism and the New Class, Telos 87 (Spring 1991).
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Panama Invasion and the Laws of War, 2 J. Terroism & Pol. Violence 233 (Fall 1990).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Beginning to Theorize About State Terrorism in the Third World, 2 J. Terroism & Pol. Violence 140 (Spring 1990).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Accountability for State-Sponsored Mass Murder, 11 N.Y. L. Sch. J. Intl. & Comp. L. 361 (1990).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Permanent Counterinsurgency in Guatemala, Telos (Summer 1988).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Roundtable on Communitarianism, Telos 76 (Summer 1988).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Women's Banks and Women's Access to Credit: Competition Between Marketplace and Regulatory Solutions to Gender Discrimination, 20 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 771 (Apr. 1987).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Action Specific Human Rights Legislation for El Salvador, 22 Harv. J. on Legis. 1 (Winter 1985).
  • Kenneth Anderson, The Liberal-Legal Model of Human Rights: Six Lessons from El Salvador, Telos 64 (Summer 1985).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Abortion, Limited Medical Resources, and the Meaning of Health Care, 32 J. College Health Assn. (Apr. 1984).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Multidimensional Test of the Attributional Reformulation of Learned Helplessness, 22 Bull. Psychonomic Soc. 211 (1984).
  • Kenneth Anderson, L. Lovins, & A. Lovins, Energy and Community, in Rethinking Liberalism (W. Anderson, ed., Discuss Books 1983).
  • Kenneth Anderson, State Terrrorism in Hungary: The Case of Friendly Repression, Telos 54 (Winter 1982 - 1983).

• Selected Presentations

  • Kenneth Anderson, Panelist, Remarks on Literature and International Law (Part I) (American Society fo International Law, Apr. 10, 1997).
  • Kenneth Anderson, Panelist, Remarks on Literature and International Law (Part II) (American Society of International Law, Apr. 10, 1997).

• Selected Media Appearances

  • C-SPAN, "Discussion on Guatanamo Detainees & Human Rights" (C-SPAN Nov. 12, 2007) (Part 1).
  • C-SPAN, "Discussion on Guatanamo Detainees & Human Rights" (C-SPAN Nov. 12, 2007) (Part 2).
  • C-SPAN, "Discussion on Guatanamo Detainees & Human Rights" (C-SPAN Nov. 12, 2007) (Part 3).
  • C-SPAN, "Discussion on Guatanamo Detainees & Human Rights" (C-SPAN Nov. 12, 2007) (Part 4).