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.

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Announcing Upcoming Conference: Challenges and Opportunities of the Chinese Social Credit System (Shanghai Jaiotong University 23-24 Sept. 2017)

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More information soon for what we hope will be event that will contribute to understanding this important development in governance. Th...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Just Published: "Are Supply Chains Transnational Legal Orders? What We Can Learn from the Rana Plaza Factory Building Collapse"

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I am happy to announce the publication of an article, " Are Supply Chains Transnational Legal Orders? What We Can Learn from the ...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Sexual Assault at the American Law Institute (ALI)--The ALI and its Model Penal Code at the Center of the Controversies on the Sexualization of Criminal Law and the Criminalization of Sexual Rules

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For the last several years, the American Law Institute has been embroiled in a quite lively controversy over the specific language of pro...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Podcast Interview Maastricht LawTalk on U.S. Law, "the Anglo-American legal order really that different?"

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During a visit to Maastricht University faculty of Law this week I was invited to spend some time to speak about U.S. law, its peculiar...

Conference: Accountability and International Business Operations: Providing Justice for Corporate Violations of Human Rights, Labor and Environmental Standards

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) Sponsored by the Utrecht Center for Accountability and and Liability Law (UCALL), the upcoming con...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Interview with Mehr News (Iran): On the Strategic Importance and Ramifications of China's One Belt One Road Initiative

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(Old Silk Road; Source here ) I was recently interviewed by Payman Yazdani for Mehr News Agency (Iran). We discussed the strategic im...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Text of My Remarks, "Transnational Legal Orders and Global Regulatory Networks": to be delivered as part of the 2017 Global Law Week and the International Francqui Symposium on Global and Transnational Law Today

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I have recently posted ( here ) about the third edition of the Brussels Global Law Week to be held from 15 to 19 of May 2017 and hosted...

Just Published: "Shaping a Global Law for Business Enterprises: Framing Principles and the Promise of a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights"

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I am happy to announce the publication of an article, "Shaping a Global Law for Business Enterprises: Framing Principles and the...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Announcing Conference: Brussels Global Law Week

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From 15 to 19 of May 2017, the Perelman Centre will run the third edition of the Brussels Global Law Week . The conference concept not...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

New Draft Paper Posted: "Sovereign Wealth Funds, Capacity Building, Development, and Governance"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) I am pleased to let those interested know that I have posted a draft of my essay, " Sovereign Wea...
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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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