Author Archive | Kenneth Anderson

Althouse does not say how this communication was received; the link from her post goes to a Scribd document with the full statement.  I am of course not in a position to vouch for anything about its veracity, nor do I offer any view on its legal status or how one might legally respond to […]

At some point soon I will take up directly Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s new book, The Executive Unbound, but in the meantime let me flag Harvey Mansfield’s polite but skeptical review in the New York Times Book Review.  He is doubtful of several things – the use of Carl Schmitt, the framing of the […]

I am in transit and can’t comment on this now, but Ian Ayres offers this post via Freakonomics blog and Balkinization on war-time bribes to officers on the other side to switch sides or not fight.  Thoughts?  (Update:  I hope these links work now to the original articles.) I have a mildly technical and pedagogical […]

I want to ask a follow-up to Orin’s post below on Judge Friendly and Air Law.  I’ve taken an increasing interest in robotics – partly just robotics for its own interest, but also as a law professor from the standpoint of robots and the law.  It started, in my case, from spending time on battlefield […]

The eminent philosopher and law professor Brian Leiter, of the University of Chicago Law School, posts this comment on his philosophy blog (I just saw Eugene’s post below, but I’ll leave this up as is, closing comments on this post): Meanwhile, the Republican criminals in Wisconsin forced through their attack on workers’ rights, leading to an […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that France “formally recognized Libya’s main opposition group, the first country to do so.” It is an excellent story and walks in brisk fashion through the latest moves in diplomacy and assessment of the military chances of the rebels.  However, it is prudent at this point not to over-interpret the […]

A side aspect of the earlier-raised Chevron case is that the plaintiffs’ side is being financed in considerable part by outside investors, including an investor group in London.  So, for example, somewhere in the filings I read, Steve Donziger acknowledged that apparently the costs of his individual defense in the various suits and countersuits would […]

(Update:  See Roger Alford’s comments at Opinio Juris blog, particularly his discussion regarding “comity” with respect to Judge Kaplan’s order.) The long-running cross-border case of the judgment against Chevron in Ecuador took another turn, and this effectively another big win for Chevron: Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court in New York has made […]

In the category of sentences that give us pause. (From the Economist’s leader this week on oil price shocks). A lot will depend on the skill of central bankers. (Let me add that I have a lot of respect for central bankers, and am not among those who think they are idiots, obviously or otherwise. […]

Check out the YouTube video of the debate at University of Virginia Law School this past Monday on the vexed question of whether the Dodd-Frank financial regulation reform law makes future bailouts more or less likely, or even inevitable.  I thought this was one of the most interesting, informative, and “listenable” discussions of the subject – and I […]

I had the privilege of moderating a panel today at the Yale International Law Journal annual confab of “junior” (meaning untenured) scholars, a panel on accountability of international organizations.  International organizations in this setting means the United Nations, but also a vast array of organizations beyond what we ordinarily think of as the UN (the […]