Kenneth Anderson (jurist)
Encyclopedia
Kenneth Anderson is a law professor at Washington College of Law
, American University
, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University
, and a blog
ger.
Anderson was the legal editor of Crimes of War
, a book about international humanitarian law (W.W. Norton, 1999).
He is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation
.
Washington College of Law
American University Washington College of Law is the law school of American University. It is located on Massachusetts Avenue in the Spring Valley neighborhood of northwest Washington. WCL is ranked 50th among law schools by US News and World Report...
, American University
American University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, and a blog
Blog
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Anderson was the legal editor of Crimes of War
Crimes of War
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know is a 1999 reference book edited by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Roy Gutman and David Rieff that offers a compendium of more than 150 entries of articles and photographs that broadly define "international humanitarian law", a subject that involves most...
, a book about international humanitarian law (W.W. Norton, 1999).
He is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation
Human Rights Foundation
The Human Rights Foundation is a non-profit organization whose stated mission "is to ensure that freedom is both preserved and promoted" in the Americas. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen...
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Selected Publication
- with Richard Anderson. “Limitations of the Liberal-Legal Model of International Human Rights: Six Lessons from El Salvador”. TELOSTELOS (journal)Telos is an academic journal published in the United States. It was founded in May 1968 to provide the New Left with a coherent theoretical perspective. It sought to expand the Husserlian diagnosis of "the crisis of European sciences" to prefigure a particular program of social reconstruction...
64 (Summer 1985). New York: Telos Press
External links
- Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
- Review by Kenneth Anderson of the book “The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations”, by Paul Kennedy. Revista de LibrosRevista de LibrosRevista de Libros is a Spanish language monthly magazine, edited by Álvaro Delgado-Gal.-Awards:* 1997: National Prize for the Promotion of Reading, from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura...