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.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

A Valuable “Cultural Learnings of America”: Borat, College Boys, and Law as Protection Racket

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Sacha Baron Cohen, has made brilliant use of the media in a variety of comedy sketches that provide a tremendous amount of mocking socio-cu...
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Monday, November 06, 2006

On the Conviction of Sadam Hussein

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So, Saddam Hussein has been convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. As reported in Yahoo News today ”The nine-month trial had inflamed ...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Monitor and Manage: MiFID and Power in the Regulation of EU Financial Markets

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I presented the following work as part of a panel Panel on Financial Services: Free Movement and Harmonization in the EU . This was one of...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Constitutional Abominations: President Bush’s Crusade Against “Activist Judges,” a Betrayal of the American Revolution?

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As he has on so many occasions, the current holder of the presidency has used the prestige of his office to effect a constitutional abominat...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Reading a Mandatory Stakeholder Model of Corporate Governance in the EC Treaty?

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At the recently concluded conference: EU Financial Services Regulation: Completing the Internal Market, held at the Institute of Advanced Le...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

The Values of Free Movement: Lessons for Globalization From the E.U.’s Experience With Free Movement of Capital and Labor

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The European Union is a model for the ability of a group of states to come together under a system in which the free movement of goods, peo...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Reifying Law: “Let Them Be Lions”

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Abstract: The roots of the current ‘rule of law’ debate are ancient. Its political, social and religious expressions are bound up in Bracto...
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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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