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.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

境外非政府组织代表机构登记和临时活动备案办事指南 Guidelines for the registration of non - governmental organizations on behalf of foreign entities and the filing of provisional activities

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I have been writing about the new Foreign NGO Management Law in China.  1. Introduction to China'...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Ruminations 66/Democracy Part 37: "Las Ideas no se Matan;" Thoughts on the Death of Fidel Castro Ruz

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) "Querido pueblo de Cuba. Hoy, 25 de noviembre, a las 10:29 horas de la noche falleció el Comanda...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Dialogue in Extremis: Venezuela and Political Dialogue Among the Ruins of Economy and Society

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) The indulgence of extremes in politics  invariably has a terrible effect--not on the political classes...

Flora Sapio: Reflections on the FLIA & CPE Side Event "Political Participation and the Global Civic Education of Youth" to the Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) --> Human Rights Council Resolution 28/14 established a Forum on Human Rights, Democracy an...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Reflections on the 2016 U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights ("Leadership and Leverage: Embedding human rights in the rules and relationships that drive the global economy”)

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For the last several years I have offered reflections on the U.N. Forum for Business and Human Rights, a great gathering of critical ...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Ruminations 65A: Flora Sapio Responds to "Thoughts on the 2016 United States Presidential Election--Consequences and Tragedies"

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 (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) It is by now well known that contrary to the expectations of some, Mr. Trump was elected ...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Announcing New Blog: Tara Van Ho, "Business and Human Rights"

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I am happy to announce, and to recommend to all of my friends interested in the most contemporary and sophisticated discussions of glob...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Thoughts on John Ruggie, "Making Globalization Work for all: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Business Respect for Human Rights", Remarks Delivered at the 5th UN Business and Human Rights Forum

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John G Ruggie, who from 2005-2011 served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, in which ca...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

2016 U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights: Presentación de Laura Zúniga Cáceres (COPINH); Sesión Defensores de Derechos Humanos en América Latina (Presentation of Laura Zúniga Cáceres to the Session of Human Rights Defenders in Latin America )

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It was my great good fortune to attend the Session on Human Rights Defenders in Latin America at the 2016 UN Forum on Business and Human ...

专访丨从中美关系到美国政治——专访Larry Backer(白 轲)教授 (Interview with Professor Larry Backer (Bai Ke) from US - China Relations to American Politics)

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This Post includes the Chinese language transcript of an interview conducted on the day of the U.S. Presidential electi...
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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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