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.

Monday, October 31, 2016

Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop April 28-29, 2017; UCLA School of Law; Announcement and Call for Papers

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Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop April 28-29, 2017 UCLA School of Law Announcement and Call for Papers Orga...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Convocatoria a número de Temas dedicado a Pequeñas economías/Call for Papers Temas Journal on the Theme of Small Business in Cuba

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The Cuban Journal Temas   has issued a call for papers.  Spanish writers and speakers, especially might be interested in this upcomin...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

New Paper Posted: Commentary on the New Charity Undertakings Law: Socialist Modernization Through Collective Organizations

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(Pix  Larry Catá Backer 2016) I am happy to report that I have posted a new paper for comment:  Commentary on the New Cha...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Student Housing Now a Growing Trend --Ought There to be a CSR/Human Rights Dimension as Well?

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(Pix  Larry Catá Backer 2016) One is used to speaking about sovereign wealth funds either as vehicles for the projection of stat...
Friday, October 21, 2016

From the Finnish China Law Center: "Why studying Chinese law? – Read answers from International Scholars"

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The Finnish China Law Center has just published a nice set of short interviews touching on the topic-- why study Chinese law? :   Three...
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Conference Announcement: "China’s Guiding Cases System Turns Six: Retrospect and Prospect" 北京研讨会/Hong Kong Seminar English Only

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    China’s Guiding Cases System Turns Six: Retrospect and Prospect ...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Side Event at the 2nd Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group for a Comprehensive Business and Human Rights Treaty: Exploring the Content of the Proposed Treaty on Business and Human Rights--Academic Reflections

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E XPLORING THE C ONTENT OF THE P ROPOSED T REATY ON B USINESS AND H UMAN R IGHTS : A CADEMIC R EFLECTIONS Side event organized by C...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Detaching the Judicial Role from the Judge—A Reflection on The Nature of Judicial Reform in China

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(Bao Zheng, Wikipidia image From Illustrations of the Three Powers (1609)) The issue of judicial reform, and of the working style o...
Friday, October 14, 2016

More Movement in U.S. Cuban Relations: Publication of Updated Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR)

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) This from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control announcing publication of updated Cuban Assets ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Debating Guantanamo: Special Issue on the Guantanamo Naval Base

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Ariana Hernandez Reguant reports for Cuba-Counterpoints on a a new focus on the Guantanamo Naval Base closure. Special Issue on th...
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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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