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, February 13, 2017

February 2017 Newsletter From John Knox, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment--From Bio-Diversity and Human Rights to the Dakotah Access Pipeline

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John H. Knox , UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment (former Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment)...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Chapter 4 (Chapter Summaries) Law Articulated by the Courts: Equity; "Elements of Law and the United States Legal System"

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(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of m...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

No.175-1 章永乐:旧邦新造的历史文化基因 (No.175-1 Zhang Yongle: The old state of the new historical and cultural genes)

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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, February 10, 2017

Chapter 3 (Chapter Summaries) Law Articulated by Courts: The Common Law: "Elements of Law and the United States Legal System"

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(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Sovereign Wealth Funds as Development Mechanisms--The Emerging Case of Turkey and its SWF-SOE Hybrid

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(Turkey transfers stakes worth billions in major public companies to wealth fund/ Reuters Pix) I have written about the move among c...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Ruminations 70: American Anti-Multilateralism and the Prospects for a Comprehensive Treaty for Business and Human Rights

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) I have been closely monitoring and writing about the 45th Presidency's potentially significant t...

Chapter 2 (Chapter Summaries) The Cast of Characters, Institutions, and Forms: Reading Justinian’s Institutes: "Elements of Law and the United States Legal System"

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(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of ...
Monday, February 06, 2017

Chapter 1 (Chapter Summaries) Roadmap for the Study of the Ideology and Systems of U.S. Law: "Elements of Law and the United States Legal System"

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(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of ...

Contents and Links; Chapter Summaries and Draft Teaching Notes: "Elements of Law and the United States Legal System"

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(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of ...

Lara Bianchi (Manchester) on "President Trump’s refugee freeze has thrown the spotlight on the responsibilities of business to refugees"

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Dr. Lara Bianchi , Research Associate and Programme Manager at the Business and Human Rights Catalyst - Alliance Manchester Business Sch...
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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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