Professor Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth
Anderson, J.D. is Professor of Law, American University Washington
College of Law; Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution; and
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution.
Ken teaches and writes in the areas of business law; law and economics;
and public international law and the laws of war. His current research
agenda focuses on targeted killing and drone warfare in armed conflict;
robotics and the law; global governance; and financial regulation
reform. His book on UN–US relations is titled
Living with the UN:
American Responsibilities and International Order and was
published in
2012 by The Hoover Institution Press. Ken actively blogs at
The Volokh Conspiracy and the international law blog
Opinio Juris,
and serves as
Reviews Editor of the
Lawfare national security blog.
He earned his B.A. at the University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA) in 1983 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. Before
joining the American University law school faculty in 1996, he served as
general counsel to the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations) and as
director of the Human Rights Watch Arms Division.
Ken is currently at work on a new book with the Brookings Institution’s
Benjamin Wittes, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s
Addresses
on National Security Law. Read
Predators Over Pakistan and
Law
and Ethics for Robot Soldiers (with Matthew Waxman).
Read his
LinkedIn profile.