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, August 27, 2016

Ruminations 63: Walls and Barriers; It's Not Just Donald Trump--Nationalism and the Emerging Consensus on Barriers to Global Society and to the Globalization of Culture and Values

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Globalization continues to transform the state, law, economics and culture.  What had started as an eff...
Friday, August 26, 2016

2016 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights: Registration is Now Open

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I have been writing about the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. (see here , here , here ,  here , here , here , here a...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Observations on Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights : "End-of-mission statement on China"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Philip G. Alston , the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University is by any measure o...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Video Links to Presentations 'Corporate Governance & The Public Interest'

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) is an international scientific non-profit association...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Flora Sapio: Comment on the Measures for the Designation of Charitable Organizations of the People's Republic of China

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) On 14 July 2016, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued the Mea...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Transnationalization of Corporate Governance Norms--SWFs as Shareholders and the Exercise of Public Power in the Private Sphere

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Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund Global , has been a leader in forging a new approach to the outward p...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Larry Catá Backer Reflections on Zhou Ruijin, "Reflections on the Cultural Revolution: A Ten Thousand Character Petition"

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  By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30522776 This Post includes Larry Catá Backer's reflecti...

Jean Mittelstaedt Reflections on Zhou Ruijin, "Reflections on the Cultural Revolution: A Ten Thousand Character Petition"

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By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30522776 This Post includes Jean Mittelstadt's reflection...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Flora Sapio Reflections on Zhou Ruijin, "Reflections on the Cultural Revolution: A Ten Thousand Character Petition"

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  By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30522776 This Post includes Flora Sapio's reflections on Zhou...
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Reflections on Zhou Ruijin, "Reflections on the Cultural Revolution: A Ten Thousand Character Petition"--Flora Sapio, Jean Mittelstaedt and Larry Catá Backer.

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  By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30522776 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Great Proleta...
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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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