Papers by Kenneth Anderson
PROFESSOR JAMIE RASKIN: Good Day, everybody. My name is Jamie Raskin. I'm the director of the Pro... more PROFESSOR JAMIE RASKIN: Good Day, everybody. My name is Jamie Raskin. I'm the director of the Program on Law and Government and I'm delighted to welcome everybody here on behalf of the Program and also the National Security Law Brief, which is co-sponsoring this event with us.
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Abstract: Targeted killing, particularly through the use of missiles fired from Predator drone ai... more Abstract: Targeted killing, particularly through the use of missiles fired from Predator drone aircraft, has become an important, and internationally controversial, part of the US war against al Qaeda in Pakistan and other places. The Obama administration, both during the campaign and in its first months in office, has publicly embraced the strategy as a form of counterterrorism.
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Abstract: This essay considers the respective roles of the United Nations and the United States i... more Abstract: This essay considers the respective roles of the United Nations and the United States in a world of rising multipolarity and rising new (or old) Great Powers. It asks why UN collective security as a concept persists, despite the well-known failures, both practical and theoretical, and why it remains anchored to the UN Security Council.
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Over the years dealing professionally with US military lawyers on matters of the laws of war, I h... more Over the years dealing professionally with US military lawyers on matters of the laws of war, I have often been struck by the following disjunction. On the one hand, the public attitude of career US military lawyers who deal with matters of the laws of war has typically been unapologetically lawyerly. By that, I mean an attitude which is strongly professional, in the sense of representing a client who happens to be the US government, deploying a body of technical law in a technical and narrowly legal way.
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Christopher J. Mailander's discussion of the private equity market identifies what is, by most me... more Christopher J. Mailander's discussion of the private equity market identifies what is, by most measures, the central concern of equity investors in foreign enterprises-how to get out of a foreign investment after getting in it.'His strategy for resolving this problem is to make available the liquidity necessary for an investor to exit a foreign investment by tapping the United States capital markets. This
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Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross movement, was seized with his momentous idea at the Battle... more Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross movement, was seized with his momentous idea at the Battle of Solferino between the Austrians and the French in 1859. He and a few other inadvertent witnesses were appalled by the suffering of tens of thousands of soldiers wounded and left to die on the battlefield; uninvited, they set to, to bring them relief. Three hundred thousand men had fought each other across a sixteen-kilometre front, but the armies had virtually no medical assistance or supplies.
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Abstract: This 1997 review in the Times Literary Supplement (London) conjoins two books-the first... more Abstract: This 1997 review in the Times Literary Supplement (London) conjoins two books-the first, by investment banker turned finance historian Peter L. Berstein, is a history of the idea of risk, as it developed from Renaissance times through contemporary finance. The second, by the former editor of the derivatives journal Risk, Lillian Chew, is an account of contemporary financial derivatives and their uses and abuses.
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Abstract: This essay reviews a book of cultural criticism directed against what the author, Henry... more Abstract: This essay reviews a book of cultural criticism directed against what the author, Henry Giroux, regards as the corporate manipulation of culture, particularly the culture of children, by corporate interests, particularly the Disney company. The review argues that, contrary to Giroux's argument, Disney and such corporations relentlessly press the message of American left-liberal politically correct piety.
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Before turning to review the book at hand, NGOAccountability, I want to begin by briefly setting ... more Before turning to review the book at hand, NGOAccountability, I want to begin by briefly setting the stage as to why accountability of NGOs has become significant during the past decade.
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Abstract: This 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Review essay examines Richard and Joan Ostling's accou... more Abstract: This 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Review essay examines Richard and Joan Ostling's account of contemporary Mormonism in the United States. Richard Ostling, a reporter for Time Magazine, obtained extensive access to Mormon Church officials in the course of researching the book, and it gives the fullest account available currently of Mormon life in America.
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The eminent political scientist Robert O. Keohane propounded several years ago what he calls the"... more The eminent political scientist Robert O. Keohane propounded several years ago what he calls the" governance dilemma."'He states that"[a] lthough institutions are essential for human life, they are also dangerous." 2 Collectively we stand to benefit from a world governed by rules and institutions; even determined market libertarians will concede a certain level of public rules.
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Business Law Brief| Spring/Summer 2010 1 1 level of granularity into even more granulated adminis... more Business Law Brief| Spring/Summer 2010 1 1 level of granularity into even more granulated administrative and agency regulation; clearly a vast amount of that translation will be performed by lawyers. In the shift to the legislative and agency regulatory process, many policymakers, government agency executives, and experts—who trained as lawyers, not economists (despite having acquired deep expertise in the subject)—will take the reins.
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Abstract: The editors of the leading yearbook of global civil society studies offered to the auth... more Abstract: The editors of the leading yearbook of global civil society studies offered to the authors of this article an opportunity to present a skeptical account of global civil society as the opening chapter in the 2004/5 yearbook.
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Abstract: Following an initial hearing on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone warfare by th... more Abstract: Following an initial hearing on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone warfare by the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on March 23, 2010, the Subcommittee held a second hearing, Drones II, focusing specifically on the legal issues raised by drone warfare and targeted killing.
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The United States has long been a party to international instruments calling for the protection o... more The United States has long been a party to international instruments calling for the protection of human rights. 1 In the 1970's, Congress became increasingly concerned about human rights abuses in countries that received United States military and economic aid. 2 This concern was first expressed in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1973, 3 but key policymakers in the Executive Branch appeared not to share Congress's enthusiasm for using military aid to encourage respect for human rights.
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Thank you for inviting me to participate in this important discussion. Our specific topic is Guan... more Thank you for inviting me to participate in this important discussion. Our specific topic is Guantanamo, but in my brief remarks I would like to take the long view of US counterterrorism policy (including Guantanamo) and link it to the question of the compliance of the United States, as today's superpower, with international human rights norms, its relationship to the United Nations and, speaking very broadly, international law norms as conceived by the international community.
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The attitude of the Bush administration with respect to the vast array of international nongovern... more The attitude of the Bush administration with respect to the vast array of international nongovernmental organizations ('NGOs") that now populate the international scene is, of course, in a process of development.
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Abstract: The war on terror and the war in Iraq have occasioned a ferocious debate over the Bush ... more Abstract: The war on terror and the war in Iraq have occasioned a ferocious debate over the Bush administration's commitment to neo-conservatism as the guiding philosophy behind war aiming at democratic transformation. Two recent, widely noticed 2006 books have attacked neo-conservatism-one, by a former neoconservative, Francis Fukuyama (After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads), and a second, by a centrist liberal, Peter Beinart (The Good Fight).
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In January 1990, Americas Watch conducted a mission in Panama to look into the observance of the ... more In January 1990, Americas Watch conducted a mission in Panama to look into the observance of the laws of war in the context of the American invasion of December 20, 1989 and its immediate aftermath. Kenneth Anderson, a New York lawyer who is a member of the Board of Americas Watch, and Juan E.
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Abstract: This essay reviews books on Guatemalan and Mayan culture, art, politics, and society. T... more Abstract: This essay reviews books on Guatemalan and Mayan culture, art, politics, and society. The books under review range from an anthropological-art history examination of the altar carving of a famous church in Santiago Atitlan to accounts of the culture and politics of indigenous Mayan peoples of Guatemala.
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