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, April 28, 2016

"Beyond Nation and Law: A Manifesto": My Remarks at the Launch Symposium of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute--"Transnational Law: What's in a Name?"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) It was my great pleasure to participate in the events marking the inauguration of the Dickson ...

Shaoming Zhu Commentary on Wang Hui: "Contradiction, Systemic Crisis and the Direction for Change: An Interview"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) It has been a long time, almost a generation, since the basic line of the Chinese Communist Party re...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Nicholas Rowland Presents "The Future Multiple" and the Future of Scenario Planning; With Link to Recording of the Event

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) It was my great pleasure to host a presentation and discussion of Nicholas Roland and Matthew Spaniol...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Transnational Law: What’s in a Name? Launch Symposium of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute

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For those in London next week I am happy to pass along an announcement of the inauguration of a great new project with global impact-- ...

Flora Sapio, "Where's the Crisis in China's Legal System," TNote (Torino World Affairs Institute) No 10 (April 2016)

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)      We have been considering Jerome A. Cohen, “ A Looming Crisis for China’s Legal System: Talente...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Active Shareholding and Global Governance in the Economic Sphere: "Sovereign wealth funds push for higher hedge fund standards"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Despite their sometime vocal protestations to the contrary, sovereign wealth funds, and the states that ...

Part 8 (The Social Self and the Family)--Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual: The Social Self

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Flora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborative d...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

“For the Game. For the World.” FIFA and Human Rights--John Ruggie's Report on FIFA and Human Rights Now Available

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In December 2015 I considered the formidable task soon to be faced by John Ruggie, the former Special Representative of the UN Secre...
Friday, April 15, 2016

New Publication: "Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones", Santa Clara J. Int'l L.14: 297 (2016)

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) I am happy to announce the publication of my article, " Corporate Social Responsibility in ...

Just Published: Papers Delivered at the International Law Symposium: "Critical Global Business Issues: When Theory Meets Practice"

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) It was my great pleasure to have participated in the 2015 Symposium sponsored by the Center for Gl...
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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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