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 31, 2026

From the NPC Observer: NPC 2026: Documents and Votes

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  Pix credit here   The NPC Observer has compiled a quite useful list of all released official documents from the 14th National People'...

Panel Discussion: "From Closet to Consequence: Sustainable Fashion, Global Inequality, and Human Rights" UConn 14 April 2026

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  I am delighted to pass along this announcement of this Panel Discussion sponsored by the Goldstein Family Human Rights Institute Business ...

Klaus Larres--"War & ITS DISCONTENTS: The Wars in Iran & Ukraine and their Global Repercussions": April 1, 2026

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  Pix credit here      Dr Klaus Larres , Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University...

“ESG in the Boardroom and Shareholder Proposals” April 28 | 2:00 to 5:30 pm | Wilmington

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  Image generated with ChatGPT  Delighted to pass along this announcement of a panel discussion,  “ESG in the Boardroom and Shareholder Prop...

“一国两制”下香港维护国家安全的实践 [The Practice of Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong Under "One Country, Two Systems" February 13, 2026, 22:42]

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  Pix credit here   In May 2020, as the Hong Kong National Security Law was being revealed, I noted its foundations and consequences: It is ...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Worth Reconsidering in Times of Transition, "The Cuban Diaspora in the Twenty-First Century" (2011)

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  Pix Credit here  In 2011, the Cuban Research Institute of Florida International University released the Report:  " The Cuban Diaspora...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

《数智赋能正能量生产传播态势报告》[Report on the Trends in the Digital and Intelligent Empowerment of the Production and Dissemination of Positive Energy]

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  Pix credit generated by  ChapGPT   All States and other actors are fussing with the construction of their own cognitive cages within which...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

President Trump Issues Executive Order "Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees"

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  Pix Credit ABC Houston “I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin,  to immediately pay...

Trump Administration Announces New Mobile App: "New White House App Delivers Unparalleled Access to the Trump Administration"

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  It is usually the small things that escape notice; and yet many times they open profoundly important windows on how collectives change an...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

March 2026 Academe Newsletter--Faculty and AI

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    The March Academe newsletter includes a selection of articles about how faculty members are grappling with artificial intelligence—at t...
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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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