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.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Norwegian SWF Excludes Grupo Carso SAB de CV From Its Investment Universe

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Today, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced the exclusion of the Mexican company,  Grupo Carso SAB de CV from the investment univers...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

China's Other Sovereign Wealth Funds--Complexity and Coherence in Sovereign Investing Strategies

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For some time, I have been suggesting coherence and complexity in the structuring of Chinese strategies for projecting investment power abro...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Global Law Schools on U.S. Models: Internationalism and Nationalist Globalization

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I have written about an international conference on legal education held in June in Toledo, Spain.  See, Larry Catá Backer,   The Internati...
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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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