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, September 29, 2016

Ruminations 65: Good Breeding--The Racialization of Dogs and the Discourse of Differentiation

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Human organization is no stranger to the mania for classification, and the construction of hierarchy a...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

On the Nature of the Foreigner and Chinese Law--Drawing a Distinction Between the National and the International in an Era of Globalization

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I have been considering the issue of the foreign scholar in China--and especially in the context of the development of Chinese law and...

No.167-2 : 雷磊 : 再访拉德布鲁赫公式(下); No. 167-2 Lei Lei: Revisiting the Radbruch formula (Part 2)

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This is another in the series of essays that were presented at the “来华外国人与近代中国法” 国际学术研讨会 "Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law" In...

No.167-1 : 雷磊 : 再访拉德布鲁赫公式(上) No.167-1: Lei Lei: Revisiting the Radbruch formula

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This is another in the series of essays that were presented at the “来华外国人与近代中国法” 国际学术研讨会 "Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law" I...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Ideological Basis of a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Choosing Among Status Quo, Evolutive and Transformative Visions

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(Pix © Larry Catá Bacer 2016) I have been considering the ideological foundations of the comprehensive treaty for business and h...
Monday, September 19, 2016

No.166-2 许小亮 : 朝向敌人本身; No.166-2 Xu Xiaoliang: toward the enemy itself

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  This is another in the series of essays that were presented at the “来华外国人与近代中国法” 国际学术研讨会 "Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law" ...

No.166-1 周林刚 : 敌人与现代政治; Zhou Lingang: Enemies in Modern Politics

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This is another in the series of essays that were presented at the “来华外国人与近代中国法” 国际学术研讨会 "Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Principled Pragmatism in the Elaboration of a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights

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“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amo...

Roundtable: "On the Role of Foreign Scholars in the Study of Chinese Law"

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It is my great delight to have been asked to participate in an upcoming Roundtable: The Role of Foreign Scholars in the Study of Chines...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Part 12 (The Social Self as a reflection/result of one's ancestors: Acts of Appropriation and Foundations of Cultural Appropriation in the West)--Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual: The Social Self

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) F lora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborat...
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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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