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, January 21, 2011

Delaware Chancellor William B. Chandler III Speaks on Corporate Director Issues; Worth a Listen for Its National and Transnational Insights

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In some quarters it is commonly assumed that American corporations tend to develop behavior norms solely by reference to a fairly narrow for...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Harmonizing Transnational Corporate Governance--Communication Among CSR Soft Law Framework Systems

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One of the most interesting developments in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the elaboration of chains of authority among the very d...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Of Palestinos and Blood Libel: Appropriating and Decontextualizing Markers of Subordination

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Most cultures insist that they are immune from the deleterious effects of subordination based on markers of race, class, religion, ethnici...
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Saturday, January 08, 2011

Lars Klöhn: On Law and Economics Principles and the Role of Public or Private Enforcement of Law

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The state in general, and law-state systems in particular, have been waging aggressive campaigns of late on several fronts.  Well known to t...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

"Anonymous": Organizing Collective Action and Coercive Power Beyond the State

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Traditionally, it is commonly assumed that an institutionalized organization is necessary for the organization and deployment of collectiv...
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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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