Kenneth Anderson

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Kenneth Anderson is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and a professor of law at Washington College of Law, American University. He is also a Hoover Institution visiting fellow and member of its Task Force on National Security and Law. He specializes in international law, human rights and the laws of war, as well as international business law, international development, and not-for-profit law. | View Full Bio

Experience

Current Positions

  • Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University
  • Task Force Member and Visiting Fellow, Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law, The Hoover Institution
  • Senior Fellow, The Rift Valley Institute.

Past Positions

  • Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • Visiting associate professor, Harvard Law School
  • John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School
  • Lecturer, Columbia Law School
  • Lecturer, Fordham Law School
  • General Counsel, The Open Society Institute-Soros Foundations
  • Director, Human Rights Watch Arms Division
  • Guatemala Representative, International Human Rights Law Group.

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School 1986
  • B.A., University of California at Los Angeles 1983.

Language Fluency

  • Spanish

Contact

Email Kenneth Anderson

202-309-0983

202.797.6105Brookings Office of Communications

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