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.

Friday, December 05, 2025

Reflections on Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour on "Artificial Intelligence and the Islamic Theology of Technology: From “Means” to “Meanings” and from “Minds” to “Hearts”"

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  Pix credit here   In a recent post I considered briefly the quite powerful insights of Tugrul Keskin in  “ Algorithmic Ummah: Turkey’s AI ...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Tugrul Keskin on “Algorithmic Ummah: Turkey’s AI Ambitions and the Neoliberal Pan-Islamist Reconfiguration of the Global South,” Presentaiton at the Conference "AI and International Relations: Perspectives from the Global South and Muslim World," (FIU, 4 December 2025)

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    My friend and colleague, the remarkable Tugrul Keskin  will be presenting his paper,  “Algorithmic Ummah: Turkey’s AI Ambitions and the ...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Xi Jinping (Full text: Explanation of the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development) and 推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合(学习贯彻党的二十届四中全会精神)[Promoting the Deep Integration of Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation (Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)]

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  Pix credit here The 4th plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has come and gone, producing a 15th Five Year Plan for Economic ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

CfP: Special issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation - titled Omnibus Legislation and EU Regulatory Reform: Between Efficiency and Constitutional Integrity

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Pix credit here I am delighted to pass along this call for papers for a Special issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation, the theme ...

The American Leninist-Brain Trust Republic: Text of President Trump's Executive Order, "Launching the Genesis Mission," and the Press Release "President Trump Launches the Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI for Scientific Discovery"

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  Pix credit here All are Leninists now.  Pix credit here (movie "Fight Club") Leninism is now so deeply embedded in the premises ...
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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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