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.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

"La plataforma virtual dentro de los templos del derecho: El derecho y la plataforma como sujeto y objeto del otro" -- Ponencia presentada en el Simposio Internacional: El cambio de paradigma tecnológico en el derecho internacional, transnacional y europeo (Roma Tre, 29-30 de enero)

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      Versión en inglés ACQUI . Me complace participar en el Simposio Internacional: El cambio de paradigma tecnológico en el derecho intern...

"The Virtual Platform Within the Temples of Law: Law and Platform as Subject and Object of the Other"--Remarks Presented at the International Symposium: The Technological Paradigm Shift in International, Transnational, and European Law (Roma Tre, 29-30 January)

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  Pix Credit ChatGPT per author instruction Spanish language version HERE . I am delighted to be able to participate in the International Sy...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Davos Part 6: Reflections on the Address by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Pix credit here   What must it be like now to be Volodymyr Zelenskyy? What must it be like now to be Ukraine? I suspect, perhaps, like it wa...

Informational Program: "Student Loans: How to Pay Off Your Student Debt"

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Pix credit here I am delighted to pass along this announcement from my former student and colleague James Korman. On Tuesday, February 3, 2...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Davos Part 5: Reflections on Palabras del Presidente de la Nación Javier Milei en el Foro Económico de Davos 2026 [Argentine President Javier Milei's Remarks at Davos 2026]]

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Pix credit here Por lo tanto, esto implicará que - si queremos salir de nuestro oscuro presente - debemos volver a inspirarnos en la filoso...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Davos 2026 Part 4: Reflections on the Address of President Ursula von der Leyen

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Pix credit Foreign Policy But the truth is also that we will only be able to capitalise on this opportunity if we recognise that this change...

Fleshing Out the America First Framework as Peace Through Strength Projections: Brief Reflections on the 2026 National Defense Strategy (US Department of War January 2026)

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    On 23 January 2026, the Department of War released its 2026 National Defense Strategy document, subtitled "Restoring Peace Through...
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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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