Kenneth Anderson (jurist)

{{Short description|American writer}}

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.{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=Kenneth|title=Faculty Webpage|url=http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/anderson/|publisher=Washington College of Law|accessdate=7 November 2012|archive-date=15 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915095422/https://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/anderson/|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html|title=Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both | RealClearPolitics|access-date=2016-03-31|archive-date=2019-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427095130/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html|url-status=live}}

He graduated from UCLA and Harvard Law School.