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, June 20, 2025

Newsom v. Trump, No. 25-3727 D.C. No. 3:25-cv-04870-CRB (9th Cir, slip op. 19 June 2025)--Part 4, Appellate Court Opinion

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  Pix credit here  For those following the legal battle over the scope of Presidential authority to intervene in local civil disturbances, a...

CfP (Convocatoria) for Dossier No. 37--Iuris Dictio Journal: Legal Education in Latin America: Challenges and Demands (La educación jurídica en América Latina: retos y desafíos)

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    I am delighted to pass along this CfP for Dossier No. 37--Iuris Dictio Journal: Legal Education in Latin America: Challenges and Demands...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Newsom v. Trump NO. 3:25-cv-04870-CRB (N.D.Cal.)--Part 3; Oral Argument Before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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  Pix credit here   I have been following the course of the political battle between the Givernor of California and the President of the Uni...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

"G7 Leaders’ statement on recent developments between Israel and Iran": Agit-Prop Communications and the Banalities of its Performance in Theaters of the Absurd

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  Pix credit here I have been speaking to the way the global political elite, and their supporting claques, have become-- perhaps because of...

Just Published: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique Vol 38 Issue 5

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   Delighted to pass along the announcement fo the publication of Volume 38 Issue 5 of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

President Donald Trump’s Full Remarks at the 250th Anniversary of the US Army Grand Military Parade June 14, 2025, the "No Kings" Response, and Political Communication as Agit-Prop

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  There was much political commotion around the address President Trump was to make at a Military Parade organized for that purpose to celeb...

Announcing Publication of Article : "Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline" [Cuba y la Constitución de un Estado Estable de Miseria: Ideología, Política Económica y Disciplina Popular] (2025) 13(2) Penn State J L Int'l Aff 1-84

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  I am delighted to announce the publication of Volume 13 Issue 2 of the Penn State Journal of Law & International Affair , of which I a...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Workshop Presentation: "Trump's America: Issues, Conflicts, and Future Trajectories"

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  Was invited to participate in a workshop for members of a European political party discussing my perspectives on the 2nd Administration of...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Newsom v. Trump NO. 3:25-cv-04870-CRB (N.D.Cal.)--Part 2; Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order; Order Granting Plaintiffs' Application for Temporary Restraining Order; Emergency Motion Under Circuit Rule 27-3 for Stay Pending Appeal; Order Granting Emergency Motion

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  Pix credit here In   Newsom v. Trump NO. 3:25-cv-04870-CRB (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California) Filed 10 June 20...

America First: Globalization as the Systematization of Ordered Anarchy Philosophizing With a Hammer--Statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Israeli Actions Against Iran

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  Pix credit here   On 12 June 2025, the White House Website posted a short Statement of Secretary Marco Rubio .  It read in full as follows...
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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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