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3 Jan 2011, 8:19 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Death-bet insurance involves a person taking out life insurance, and then turning around and selling the policy to a stranger — a hedge fund, for example, via intermediaries — who pays the premiums and collects after the insured’s death. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 7:11 am
(Kenneth Anderson) At least, not in my life and, my best guess, not in yours. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 6:23 am
(Kenneth Anderson) A: When they send a child off to college.I don’t know who first said that, but it’s true in my case. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 7:26 am
by Kenneth Anderson The UN Secretary General … circa 2050, Earth, talking with Kip who, along with Peewee, has just saved the Earth from invading aliens who were using the Moon as a forward base: "Russell, I heard on your tape that you plan to study engineering - with a view to space. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
(Kenneth Anderson) The LA Times has a good story on the complete backing away of the CIA from any new detentions or interrogations in counterterrorism under the Obama administration (though it started back under the Bush administration). [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 7:18 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) 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. [read post]
17 May 2012, 11:09 pm
by Kenneth Anderson [This is the third day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 7:00 am
(Kenneth Anderson) I have told My Beloved Wife that I think it’s time we gave up sending snail mail Christmas cards. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 7:52 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Was my kid serious when she put that into her college application essay? [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 3:08 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) As I have occasionally noted here at VC, this term the Supreme Court will hear an Alien Tort Statute case, the Kiobel case, in which a primary question is whether the ATS embraces a theory of corporate liability. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 8:24 am
by Kenneth Anderson Treat liquidity risk and runs on institutions as fundamentally a question of lack of information - the lack of information on the underlying financial solvency prompting flight from uncertainty. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 10:15 am
(Kenneth Anderson) The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman has an interesting profile today of Michael Morell, a veteran CIA insider (31 years in) who is tapped to help guide the new director, David Petraeus, as he steps out of the uniform and into the suit, through the maze of internal CIA culture. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 11:16 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Amid the debates over rising student loan debt that is undischargeable in bankruptcy, I have not seen a lot of public discussion over provisions of law that provide special forgiveness benefits to those who go to work for government or nonprofits. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 8:48 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Bill Clinton’s invocation of Timothy McVeigh in connection with the Tea Party movement caused me to recall my review of a book on the Waco massacre that was a motivation for McVeigh. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 8:11 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Desperate times call for desperate creative fantasizing ... isn’t one of the problems of our higher education bubble the poorly aligned incentives for the universities providing the eduction? [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 7:26 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Many VC readers, I know, have a keen interest in Civil War history. [read post]
5 May 2012, 11:14 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Among the many articles tracking the decline and, presumably shortly, fall of the law firm Dewey & Leboeuf, I found New York Times business columnist James B. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 8:13 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Presswires are reporting that Judge John Bates has dismissed the case which the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights sought to bring on behalf of Anwar Al-Aulaqi’s father, contesting the ability of the President to target an American citizen hiding abroad in Yemen who the government says is a targetable participant in a terrorist group covered by the AUMF. [read post]
2 May 2011, 10:52 am
(Kenneth Anderson) I apologize for the self-serving step of linking to my own pieces on targeted killing and drone warfare, but I’ve been fielding a number of calls and emails today from press on these issues. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 8:35 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Over at the Opinio Juris blog, I’ve been raising questions about the EU, governance, and the eurozone crisis. [read post]
