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.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Venkatesh Nayak on the "Ability of Banks in India to Avoid Disclosure Under the Right to Information Act"--National and Public Interest Trumps Individual Interest in Disclosure; Whither Accountability?A Lesson for the US?

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights ...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

白轲。关于中华人民共和国慈善法(草案)的评论

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015 ) 作者简介: Larry Catá Backer,中文名,白轲。宾夕法尼亚州立大学W.理查德和玛丽.埃谢尔曼学者、法学教授、国际事务教授。他的研究领域集中在宪法与行政法,包括社会主义国家宪法、全球化及全球化...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Daisuke Takahashi on "Japanese Lawyers' Engagement to Avoid the 'Lost in Translation' Effect on Business and Human Rights"

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( Daisuke Takahashi ) It was my great pleasure to participate at a Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulation: Compar...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Ruminations 59: The Transnationalization of Politics, Civil Society and National Regulatory Responses

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been writing about recent efforts to manage civil society by states.  I have considered ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Jason Buhi on "What Hong Kong and Macau can learn from Portuguese autonomous regions"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) China continues to develop its constitutional relationship with its special administrative zones--pri...
Monday, December 21, 2015

FIFA's Responsibility to Respect Human Rights--John Ruggie to Report in March 2016 on Incorporation of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights to Sports League

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Fédération Internationale de Football Association's (FIFA)s scandals are by now well known. Fifa...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

"The State of CSR in the United States"--Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulation: Comparative Perspectives, City University of Hong Kong

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) It was my great pleasure to participate at a Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatio...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Virgilio Mendoza on "Will Chavismo finally kill off democracy in Venezuela? And will the international community just stand by and watch?"

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( flaglane.com ) Those who tend to manage public perception in the United States tend to view Latin America, and determine the scope ...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Prof. Yoshiki Kurumisawa--Closing Ceremony Remarks, International Conference on the “Rule of Law and Judicial Reform” (中国社会科学院以及社科院法学所主办的2015年12月11-12日“法治与司法改革”国际学术会议)

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) On 11-12 December, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) hosted the International Conference o...
Sunday, December 06, 2015

New Paper Posted: Global Corporate Social Responsibility (GCSR) Standards With Cuban Characteristics: What Normalization Means for Transnational Enterprise Activity in Cuba

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) At the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, I was fortunate enou...
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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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