Kenneth Anderson is an American legal writer who is a law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a blogger. [1]
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.
Anderson supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages. [2]
He graduated from UCLA and Harvard Law School.
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