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.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Announcing Publication of Article: "Party, People, Government And State: On Constitutional Values And The Legitimacy Of The Chinese State- Party Rule Of Law System"

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I am happy to report that my article,  " Party, People, Government And State: On Constitutional Values And The Legitimacy ...

LASA Presentation: "Organizing Cuban Economic Enterprises in the Wake of the Lineamientos—Between Corporation, Cooperatives and Globalization"

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The Latin American Studies Association Annual recently concluded its XXXth International Congress ,   Toward a Third Century of In...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Education to Meet the Labor Needs of Markets--Cuba Changes its Approach to University Education

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I have suggested how the Cuban State was rethinking the way it supported university education. Backer, Larry Catá, 'Order, Discipline ...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Guest Blog: Nicholas Roland on Legally Granting Entitivity, or Granting Personhood to Non-Persons

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My colleague here at Penn State, Nicholas Rowland, an assistant professor of sociology resident at our Altoona, Pennsylvania campus. He ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Dermott Groome Opens Proceedings Against Ratko Mladic

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My colleague Dermot Groome opened proceedings against Ratko Mladic after a long period of preparation. ("Ratko Mladic, right, th...
Friday, May 11, 2012

John Sherman on the Professional Responsibility of Lawyers under the Guiding Principles

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John Sherman, an expert on the new U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights has been a driving force in the efforts to apply ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Podcast of Debate--Zumbansen and Backer: Tension Between Public and Private Governance in the Emerging Transnational Legal Order

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The Robert Schuman Centre for advanced Studies of the European University Institute recently hosted a debate between Larry Catá Backer (Pen...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Guest Blog: Nicholas Rowland on "What are States Made of?"

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My colleague here at Penn State, Nicholas Rowland, an assistant professor of sociology resident at our Altoona, Pennsylvania campu...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Human Rights Duty of States: IKEA, Cuba, and the Corporate Responsibility to Protect Human Rights

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One of the thorniest issues of corporate social responsibility involves  the liability of corporate actors when they engage in activities t...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Slide Presentation: On the Evolution of Multi-National Corporations: From the External Regulation of MNCs to Self-Governance

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I recently had the chance to present a lecture on the evolution of the multinational corporation from object of law to autonomous regulatory...
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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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