Author Archive | Kenneth Anderson

Over at Opinio Juris, Georgetown law professor and former senior Justice Department lawyer in the Obama administration, Marty Lederman, offers a reconstruction of the US government’s legal positions on both international and domestic law issues in the OBL raid.  I think it is largely right, and would be happy if it were the position of […]

Yesterday I mentioned that Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the Department of State, and the government’ most senior international and foreign relations law lawyer, would be posting a comment on the legality of the OBL raid at Opinio Juris.  That post is up; it is a short statement that primarily draws upon Legal Adviser Koh’s […]

(ps.  Thanks for the interesting comments. I should add, the thing that caused me to write this post was because I thought it was odd that in asking about most things related to decisions to go to law school, or not, gendered or not, I’d certainly want to ask how the increasing tuition and student […]

This announcement has just been posted at Opinio Juris, the international law professor blog (where I also blog). As someone who has posted frequently here and at Instapundit in the last couple of weeks about the importance of a senior international and foreign relations lawyer giving a statement of the US legal view of the […]

Fine reporting in the Washington Post today on the stealth drone used as part of surveillance of OBL’s compound and in the raid itself (ht Insta).  Even with that surveillance and the CIA ground team in the nearby house, however, the US still did not have unequivocal visual confirmation of OBL.  Two quick thoughts (drawing […]

When the DSK arrest story first broke, I linked to an outstanding post by foreign relations and international law scholar Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris on the initial questions raised about diplomatic immunity.  Another fine sch0lar, Chimene Keitner, has also weighed in with a guest post on why DSK can’t assert immunity.  It’s clear and […]

May 7 was the 300th birthday of the philosopher David Hume.  As Crooked Timber’s Henry Farrell noted, his influence on philosophy, of course; but his influence on social sciences?  Rather less so, Henry says – although I am not sure I would agree.  But enough of that – before Hume’s birthday slips away,  I want […]

Terrific article in today’s Business Technology section of the New York Times on the rise of amateur drone developers – moving from little remote controlled units like the helicopter units sold on Amazon to venture capitalists, engineers, and others moving into this brave new world.  Featuring no less than the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, what’s […]

The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on attempted rape and other charges in New York over weekend has reopened long-running issues of the internal governance of international organizations, whether the IMF, World Bank, or UN system.  The most immediate one, raised by l’affaire DSK, is how internal IMF personnel processes addressed earlier sexual harassment allegations raised […]

Which is to say, the financial crisis of 2008 in his view was caused by subprime loans, which themselves were a function of US housing policy pushing the GSEs, among others, to make loans that would not otherwise meet underwriting standards.  Wallison writes in the current American Spectator of May 2011. What is perhaps most interesting […]

This from an article in this week’s New Yorker, Snacks for a Fat Planet, in which writer John Seabrook looks at where PepsiCo is headed, with some great interviews.  (Behind the subscriber wall, otherwise I’d link and clip a fascinating paragraph.)  However, the abstract at the website does have this intriguing sentence that says quite […]

Though for obvious reasons news reports around Dominque Strauss-Kahn (the IMF head taken off a plane at JFK by Port Authority officers yesterday, responding to an investigation by the NYPD)  have focused on the accusations of sexual assault and more, Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris – an expert in US foreign relations law and former […]

The Economist has a special report this week on regulation of international banking.  I thought it was clear, readable, well-ordered, and explanatory on the basic issues under debate (including some brief glossaries of such terms as “resolution authority”).  Very good for a class, for example – at the undergraduate or law school level.  Titled “Chained, […]

… after filling in for ‘He Who Walks Behind The Links’, aka Instapundit.  Takes four of us not even to keep up with Glenn.  It was fun to have the car keys for a week … and relentlessly drive traffic to Volokh.  But I’m glad to be back at the Conspiracy. I’m not opening for […]

Over at Instapundit, I’ve scheduled the following post for tomorrow morning.  Here is my question.  Is this kind of sliding scale bargaining an example of just regular old bargaining, or it this specifically Coasean bargaining?  My interest here is not the policy at issue; I want to know whether this is Coasean bargaining to the […]