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, September 13, 2026

Un Cubano en el Infierno [A Cuban in Hell]

›
Pix credit and video (Facebook) here   Lily Rodriguez posts some interesting and humorous takes on the contemporary Cuban experience in Cuba...
Friday, September 11, 2026

"Stress Testing" AI Classroom Policies and Pedagogy--A Preliminary Analysis On the Results of Trying Something New in Class

›
Pix credit here I have been "stress testing" an application of a model AI Classroom policy that I developed over the summer 2026 ...
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

An Elegy for 25th Anniversary of September 11

›
  Pix credit here It has been my practice to post on the Anniversary of the 11 September Attacks (eg, here , here , here , here , and here )...
Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Ninth Five-Year Plan of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Ministry of Justice on Conducting Legal-System Public Education (2026–2030)《中央宣传部、司法部关于开展法治宣传教育的第九个五年规划(2026-2030年)》

›
Pix credit here (1953, Putting on New Clothes to Go to School) I have been writing about education in China through the lens of Socialist o...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.