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, November 13, 2026

Reflections on Democratic Centralism in the 5th Plenum and the Looping Dialectics of Chinese Leninism: Reading Li Ganjie’s “Strictly Implementing and Enforcing Democratic Centralism” [民主集中制与中国列宁主义的循环辩证法 ——党的二十届五中全会《决定》、官方阐释及党的治理方法的核心渊源]

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  Pix credit here    中文版本请见此处   VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL  It is common, in studying the Fifth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee, to ask what th...
Thursday, November 12, 2026

Techno-Human Rights: The RightsX Summit 18 November 2026

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    Those upcoming event may be of interest especially for people working in the business and human rights field. The RightsX Summit is a gl...
Sunday, November 08, 2026

Borrador para comentarios: «Sistemas regulatorios de blockchain: desafíos conceptuales y operativos»" ["Blockchain Regulatory Systems—Conceptual and Operational Challenges"]

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  Imagen creada con Grok   English Version   中文版本请见此处 Mi asistente de investigación, Daniil Rose, y yo hemos preparado un artículo titulado ...

征求意见稿——《区块链监管体系:概念与实践层面的挑战》[Draft for Comments--"Blockchain Regulatory Systems—Conceptual and Operational Challenges"]

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    图片由 Grok 生成   English Version Versión en Español 我的研究助理丹尼尔·罗斯(Daniil Rose)与我共同撰写了一篇题为《区块链监管体系: 概念与实践层面的挑战》 (Blockchain Regulatory System...

Draft for Comments--"Blockchain Regulatory Systems—Conceptual and Operational Challenges"

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  Image created with Grok   中文版本请见此处   VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL My research assistant Daniil Rose and I have prepared an article,  Blockchain Regu...
Friday, November 06, 2026

New working paper: "The Vanguard Explains Itself: 党性, Self-Revolution and the Governing Loop in the Text and Gloss of the Fifth Plenum Resolution on Party Self-Governance (2026) ["新工作论文:“先锋队的自我阐释:党性、自我革命与《关于持之以恒推进全面从严治党若干重大问题的决定》(2026)文本及疏解中的治理闭环”]

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Pix credit here On 29 October 2026 the Fifth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee adopted a Resolution  ( 决定 )  on full and rigorous Party s...
Thursday, November 05, 2026

Brief Reflections on the 2026 American Elections and the Critical Importance of Lessons Unlearned for the Operation of the Republic

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Pix Credit : William Blake the Great Red Dragon and the Beats from the sea It appears that the political classes are doomed to repeat past e...
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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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