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, July 12, 2026

Discussion Draft--"Structure, Opacity, and Convergence: A Consolidated Analysis of Law School Generative AI Coursework and Exam Policies" --A Description/Analysis of the Current State of Play (With the Help of Harvey AI) and the First of a Series of Examinations of AI, Law and Education

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  I started with a quite simple and straightforward task for myself. After having given  lectures on AI regulatory environments from a compa...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

ICoCA Newsletter April-June 2026

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    Accountability, transparency, and engagement are critical elements of any principles based system.  Those overarching principles are no...

Announcing Publication of Issue 160 Vol 35 The Journal of Contemporary China

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  I  am delighted to pass along a message from Professor Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) announc...
Friday, July 10, 2026

OMFIF Event: "It's All About the Role of Money": Live Broadcast 21 July 2026

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      The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) Economic  and Monetary Policy Institute,  is hosting an online event t...

New Issue Now Available: Seqüência - Estudos Jurídicos e Políticos v. 47 n. 102 (2026)

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  For Portuguese readers, the Journal Seqüência  - Estudos Jurídicos e Políticos (Juridical and Political Studies) has just published its la...

Brief Reflections on the UN Secretary-General's remarks to the opening of the first Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance [as delivered 6 July 2026] from a Ironically Computaitonal Perspective

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  Pix credit here along with video of remarks    The United Nations has sought to interpose itself in the debates about and around regulato...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

My Dinner With ChatGPT: The Phenomenology of Human-Machine Recursive Inter-Subjectivity

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I suggested that exposing the conceptual graph reduces cognitive load. Your response was, in effect, that philosophy is often less concerned...

"El Encuentro entre la Gobernanza Empresarial y los Principios Rectores de la ONU sobre las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos": Discusro Pronunciado en la Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, 19 March 2026

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Pix credit here ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION HERE A continuación, se presenta el texto ampliado de la intervención realizada en la Universidad...

"Encountering Corporate Governance and the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights": Enhanced Remarks Delivered at Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, 19 March 2026

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  Pix credit here     Version en Español The following is the extended  text of remarks delivered at Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, 19 M...
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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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