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.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Vo Nguyen Giap Dies at 102--On the Importance of People's War and New Style Warfare in an an Era of Globalization and Privatization

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( Vietnam holds state funeral for General Vo Nguyen Giap , BBC News Online, October 12, 2013) General Vo Nguyen Giap has died at th...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

2013 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights--Forum Documents Available

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The upcoming Second Annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights , of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and tra...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund--Recent Exclusions From the Investment Universe for Violations of Environmental CSR and Human Rights Principles; New Use of Active Ownership Principles

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On October 14, 2013, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance has issued a press release on its decision on exclusion and observation of several co...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Emerging Forms of Chinese Anti-Corruption Institutions

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Xi Jingping has been moving aggressively to reform the operations of the Chinese Communist Party over the last year. ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Elements of Law 3.0 Notes and Readings III-D (Institutional Architecture of Law and Governance: The United States and Law Making--The Federal-State Interplay, the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Federal Constitution)

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first yea...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Elements of Law 3.0 Notes and Readings III-C (Institutional Architecture of Law and Governance: The United States and Law Making--The States and the People; Popular Referenda

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first yea...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

Invitation to Contribute to the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Blog and Recent Posts on Cuban Monetary Policy

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The Association for the Study of the Cuba Economy (ASCE) is a non-profit, non-political organization that pursues the study of Cuba in...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Elements of Law 3.0 Notes and Readings III-B (Institutional Architecture of Law and Governance: The United States and Law Making--The Administrative Branches: The Non-Delegation Doctrine, An Introduction)

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first yea...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Stanley Katz: “Thinking Internationally: Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum”; Keynote Address: Global Penn State Conference 2013

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On September 27-28, 2013, Penn State University hosts a provocative conference as part of its Global Penn State challenge, " Internati...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Elements of Law 3.0 Notes and Readings III-A (Institutional Architecture of Law and Governance: The United States and Law Making--The General Government; Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances)

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first yea...
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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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