Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Monday, July 13, 2015

Fourth Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights (Geneva, 16-18 Nov 2015)

The Working Group on business and human rights has the pleasure to invite States, business, civil society and other stakeholders to the:

Fourth annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights
16 to 18 November 2015
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.ohchr.org/2015ForumBHR

The Working Group noted:

Building on the previous events, the fourth annual Forum will focus on:

Strengthening multi-stakeholder dialogue and engagement

Discussing effective ways to measure and report on progress to implement the Guiding Principles

Discussing national action plans to implement the Guiding Principles

Exploring access to effective remedy

Examining current practice of States and business enterprises and “unpacking” what implementation of the Guiding Principles means in concrete areas

Draft programme outline for 2015 Forum now available

The Working Group aims to repeat the success of the 2014 Forum in involving stakeholders in the organization of parallel sessions, and would like to invite States, business, civil society and other stakeholders to submit proposals for parallel sessions
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/ParallelSession2015.aspx

For any queries related to the fourth annual Forum, please contact forumbhr@ohchr.org.

Spanish and French language versions follow.

Le Groupe de travail sur la question des droits de l’homme et des sociétés transnationales et autres entreprises invite les États, les entreprises, les organisations de la société civile et autres parties prenantes à participer au:
Quatrième Forum annuel des Nations Unies sur les entreprises et les droits de l’homme
du 16 au 18 novembre 2015
Palais des Nations, Genève, Suisse
http://www.ohchr.org/2015ForumBHR
Le Groupe de travail aimerait renouveler avec le succès du Forum 2014 en associant toutes les parties prenantes dans l'organisation de séances parallèles et invite les États, les entreprises, les organisations de la société civile et autres parties prenantes à transmettre des propositions pour des sessions parallèles: http://www.ohchr.org/FR/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/ParallelSession2015.aspx
Pour toute question sur le Forum, adressez vous à forumbhr@ohchr.org

El Grupo de Trabajo sobre la cuestión de los derechos humanos y las empresas transnacionales y otras empresas invita los Estados, empresas, representantes de la sociedad civil e interlocutores pertinentes a participar al:

Cuarto Foro Anual sobre las empresas y los derechos humanos
16 al 18 de noviembre del 2015
Palais des Nations, Ginebra, Suiza
http://www.ohchr.org/2015ForumBHR

El Grupo de Trabajo quiere repetir el éxito del Foro 2014 haciendo participar todos los interesados en la organización de las sesiones paralelas e invita los Estados, empresas, representantes de la sociedad civil e interlocutores pertinentes a presentar propuestas para las sesiones paralelas http://www.ohchr.org/SP/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/ParallelSession2015.aspx

Para toda consulta sobre el Foro, escriba a forumbhr@ohchr.org .

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About this Site:

At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings

Are but obeyed in their several provinces,

Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;

But his domain that exceeds in this

Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.

A sound magician is a mighty god.

* * *

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometimes grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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Globalization Law and Policy Series from Ashgate Publishing

About the Series:

Globalization: Law and Policy will include an integrated body
of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series will focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including emerging frameworks and processes for the internationalization, legal harmonization, juridification and democratization of law among increasingly connected political, economic, religious, cultural, ethnic and other functionally differentiated governance communities. This series is intended as a resource for scholars, students, policy makers and civil society actors, and will include a balance of theoretical and policy studies in single-authored volumes and collections of original essays.

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