Ken also Blogging at Volokh, but not Leaving OJ

I wanted to let OJ readers know that I will also be blogging over at Volokh Conspiracy, where Senior Conspirator Eugene Volokh has been kind enough to extend me an invitation. My reason for putting this up here is not so much to announce that, but instead to say that I am not going anywhere from OJ. I will be continuing to blog here, with great pleasure and affection. But I have an academic life that is actually somewhat wider than topics that OJ covers – my day job, as it were, is international business and corporate finance, and I welcome a place to blog on topics that go outside of our topics.

But while I am thinking of it, in various discussions among our OJ bloggers, we agreed that the conception of OJ was not to be only about international criminal law and related topics – and that things that I work on in other areas of international law and policy, particularly economic issues, development and development finance, and so on, are things that are appropriate for OJ. So I anticipate posting on these issues as well.

And also while I am at it, I should add that I also post on the more academically specialized, political science (and related social sciences) blog Complex Terrain Lab, which is currently undergoing a re-design. CTLab addresses both theoretically specialized and particularly “spatial” issues in warfare, counterinsurgency, urban battlespace, technology, and related issues. Outside of legal contexts, for several decades I’ve been associated with the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, and the critical theory journal Telos, both of which reach into areas not really related to law, but raise topics appropriate to CTLab. You should check out CTLab – it has wonderful academic symposia, an active blog, and many fascinating features that go far outside of the usual international law frame on group violence.

Anyway, I am devoted to OJ, and want to be clear that joining up with Volokh is not at all about leaving OJ. Alas, there will be many, many a post devoted to robots and war, and I’ll start talking about microfinance and development finance again. So check out, thanks to Instapundit, this article on miniature warbots, “Meet Ember, the Littlest Warbot.”