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.

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Announcing Publication of 5th Edition of Ravitch & Backer, Law & Religion: Cases and Materials (West Academic)

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  P ix credit here (apologies pix of 4th edition, the 5th will have the same cover) My friend and colleague  Frank Ravitch (Professor of La...

Interview with Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Director of the China Institute at Fudan University and a former Translator for Deng Xiaoping

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  Pix credit and video here   Happy to pass along the video of Afshin Rattsani's interview of   Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Director of Fudan Un...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Science Fiction Double Feature: Anthrop\c's "2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership," in the Shadow of Palantir's "Manifesto"

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  Pix credit here  The comedy-horror hybrid can be a tricky genre to get right. This is especially true of those films that attempt to lever...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Se anuncia la publicación de «Un constitucionalismo consultivo democrático para sistemas políticos marxista-leninistas (socialistas): teoría y estructura de la “democracia popular de proceso integral”», *American University International Law Review*, Vol. 41(2): 371-438.

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Pix credit here    VERSIÓN EN INGLÉS AQUÍ  Me complace anunciar que mi artículo, «Un constitucionalismo consultivo democrático para sistema...

Announcing Publication of "A Democratic Consultative Constitutionalism for Marxist-Leninist (Socialist) Political Systems—The Theory and Structure of “Whole Process People’s Democracy” (全过程人民民主 全过程人民民主), American University International Law Review Vol. 41(2): 371-438

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  Pix credit here  VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ I am pleased to announce that my article,   A Democratic Consultative Constitutionalism for Marxi...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

A Common Language Containing Differentiating Meanings Within Evolving International Standards for Sustainability Disclosure in Financial Statements: IFRS Foundation 2025 Annual Report—Fit for the Future

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  Pix credit here The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation has released its IFRS Foundation 2025 Annual Report—Fit ...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Consultation on the draft guidelines on transparency obligations under the EU AI Act

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  Pix credit here   On 8 May 2026,  The EU Commission distributed its  Draft of the guidelines on the implementation of the transparency ob...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

OMFIF Commentary: Jordan Nann, "Sustainability is now a national security necessity"

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   The global ordering continues to move closer to an (international relations) transvaluation of all values, the  Umwertung aller Werte ). ...

Declaraciones del Secretario de Estado Marco Rubio ante la prensa — 5 de mayo de 2026 (incluyendo la traducción de la conferencia de prensa al español)

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foto crédito aquí   ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION HERE Marco Rubio: La Ley de Poderes de Guerra es inconstitucional, al 100 por ciento. Ahora bi...
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Larry Catá Backer
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
I hope you enjoy these essays. Each treats aspects of the relationship between law, broadly understood, and human organization. My essays are about government and governance, based on the following assumptions: Humans organize themselves in all sorts of ways. We bind ourselves to organization by all sorts of instruments. Law has been deployed to elaborate differences between economic organizations (principally corporations, partnerships and other entities), political organization (the state, supra-national, international, and non-governmental organizations), religious, ethnic and family organization. I am not convinced that these separations, now sometimes blindly embraced, are particularly useful. This skepticism serves as the foundation of the essays here. My thanks to Arianna Backer for research assistance.
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