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, June 29, 2017

"One Belt One Road and RMB Internationalization—A Strategic Alliance"--PowerPoints of My Presentation at the "Symposium On the Internationalization of the RMB: Risks and Challenges Ahead"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)) It was my great pleasure to participate in the recently concluded "Symposium On the Internationalizat...
Friday, June 23, 2017

China's Social Credit Initiative in a Global Context: Foundations--"Monitoring, Assessment and Reward: Are there Social Credit Systems in the West?"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) The Coalition for Peace and Ethics and the Foundation for Law and International Affairs ...

Congressional-Executive Commission on China Event: "Gagging the Lawyers: China’s Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers and Its Implications for U.S.-China Relations"

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(Pix Credit here ) The Congressional-Executive Commission on China was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 "with the legislative...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

国务院办公厅关于进一步完善 国有企业法人治理结构的指导意见 (Guiding Opinions on Corporate Governance Structure of State - Owned Enterprises State Council issued [2017] No. 36)

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) I have posted a draft of my essay, " The Human Rights Obligations of State Owned Enterprises (SO...

New FLIA and CPE Project: "Civil Society Organizations Participation in Grassroots-Level Governance in China: Raising The Capacity of Local Judicial Organs"

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--> The Foundation for Law and International Affairs and the Coalition for Peace and Ethics are pleased to announce the...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Announcing Symposium "On the Internationalization of the RMB: Risks and Challenges Ahead" Organized by the Queen Mary University of London Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the East China University of Political Science and Law

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It is my great pleasure to announce an upcoming "Symposium On the Internationalization of the RMB: Risks and Challenges Ahead....
Monday, June 19, 2017

And a View From Cuba About the New U.S. Cuba Policy: Rene Gomez Manzano Essay, Estas son las reglas del juego (These are the rules of the game), on Missed Opportunities and Miscalculations on the Cuban Side

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René Gómez Manzano is an independent journalist and critical outsider in Cuba. He has for many years reported on changed within the...

Implementing the "New" Cuba Policy: Considering the "National Security Presidential Memorandum on Strengthening the Policy of the United States Toward Cuba"

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(Pix ©Larry Catña Backer 2017) Like many others with opinions of their own (e.g., here , here , here , here , here , here , and here...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

A Good Step Forward, but Forward Far Enough?: "UN office publishes detailed human rights guidance for banks"

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On 12 June 2017, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered a written response to a request from a non-state actor...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

And the Response of the Cuban Government to the Change in U.S. Cuba Policy

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I have been considering the changes now announced in U.S. Policy toward its relationship with Cuba ( here , and here ).   The resp...
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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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