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.

Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Just Posted: Video Recording of Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Addressing the Issues of Debt, Dispute Resolution, and Transparency an Online Conference |

I have posted about the excellent conference, Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Addressing the Issues of Debt, Dispute Resolution, and Transparency An online conference | 23-25 February 2021, sponsored by the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, the University of Hong Kong Law Faculty, and the University of Victoria Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives.

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law has recently posted the video recording of our panel to their YouTube Channel.

Panel 1: Debt Sustainability (24th February 2021 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM HKT)
Welcome Remarks:
Prof. Victor Ramraj (Director, Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada)
Prof. Po Jen Yap (Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, HKU)

The video recording for Panel 1 may be accessed HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbcjRe4THtE

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Panel 2: Transparency and Good Governance (25th February 2021 09:30 AM – 11:00 AM HKT)
Prof. Muna Ndulo (Cornell University)
Prof. Larry C. Backer (The Pennsylvania State University)
Bady Baldé (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Norway)
Prof. Yves Tiberghien (University of British Columbia)
Ngozi S. Nwoko (University of Victoria, Canada)

More on that Panel and my presentation HERE.

The video recording for Panel 2 can be accessed HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC771Q1SRWQ&feature=youtu.be

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Panel 3: Dispute Resolution (26th February 2021 09:30 AM – 11:15 AM HKT)
Prof. William P. Alford (Harvard University)
Dr. Mariel Dimsey (CMS Hasche Sigle, Hong Kong LLP)
Prof. Heng Wang (University of New South Wales)
Prof. Won Kidane (Seattle University)
Dr. Weixia Gu (The University of Hong Kong)

Closing Remarks:
Dr. Ying Xia (Co-convener of BRI Conference, HKU)

The video recording for Panel 3 can be accessed HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qO3ZK5pEk0

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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 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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