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 29, 2014

At the 3rd U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights--Remarks at Side Event: "Conceptual, Structural, and Operationalization Constraints on the Right to Remedy Under the Guiding Principles"

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In a prior post I noted the then upcoming T hird Annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights , of the Working Group on t...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Daniel Ivo Odon on Privacy Rights and Search Engine Liability

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Daniel Ivo Odon , my SJD student at Penn State Law and the winner of the inaugural Mauricio Correa Human Rights Award from the Brazil...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Beth Farmer on "Resolving Competition Related Disputes Under the Anti Monopoly Law."

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have posted the conference program of the 9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studie...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Ruminations 54: On the Cultural Semiotics of "Honesty" in the U.S. and "Zhi" in China and Their Consequences for Surveillance Legal Cultures

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  ( Zh i--ten eyes--modern form) Over the last century national societies have been engulfed in a great debate about the acceptabili...

Chapter 16 ( The Doctrine of Judicial Review): From "Elements of Law" to "Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States"--Building an Introductory Course to the Legal Curriculum for the 21st Century

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been dev...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

On the Human Rights Obligations of Universities--Announcing a Project on Operationalization

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Influential American academics have been coming around to the notion that  the emerging internat...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Chapter 15 ( The Federal-State Interplay, the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Federal Constitution): From "Elements of Law" to "Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States"--Building an Introductory Course to the Legal Curriculum for the 21st Century

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developin...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

On Organizing Principles for a Collective Presidency and for a Petitioning System in China: Paper Presentations at European China Law Studies Association Conference

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have posted the conference program of the 9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies ...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, Hong Kong

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It is with great pleasure that I note that the 9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association , with its theme, “...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Chapter 14 ( The States and the People; Popular Referenda): From "Elements of Law" to "Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States"--Building an Introductory Course to the Legal Curriculum for the 21st Century

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for ou...
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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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