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.

Friday, November 22, 2019

The Norway Pension Fund Global and Migrant Workers: Council on Ethics Recommends Exclusion of G4S PLC (UK)

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(Pix credit: Kerala to provide Gulf-like labour camps for migrant workers) The Pension Fund Global has recently distributed ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

The American Pivot Toward Latin America--A Regional Approach to Cutting Cuba Off From its Most Dependable Sources of Hard Currency

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(Pix Credit: Cuba’s greatest export? Medical diplomacy ) I have been noting the emergence of Cuban strategies for re-integrating thems...

习近平:止暴制乱 恢复秩序是香港当前最紧迫的任务 [Xi Jinping: Stopping the storm and restoring order is Hong Kong's most urgent task at present]

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There has been much coverage of the latest round of activity by students and government responses around the current situation in Hong ...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Birgit Spiesshofer: "What is "sustainable"?" English Translation of Article published first (in German) in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazine Einspruch! (online) July 24, 2019

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( Birgit Spiesshofer ) Dr. Birgit Spiesshofer has been undertaking truly important and path-breaking work in the area of the responsib...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Lectures on Comparative Constitutionalism -- 比较立宪主义; East China University of Political Science and Law; Lectures, Resources and Materials

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I am delighted to post more information on my Lectures on Comparative Constitutionalism -- 比较立宪主义. They may be accessed by scanning the...
Friday, November 15, 2019

At the 2019 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights: "Building sustainable infrastructure: Lessons from the Belt and Road Initiative and other similar multi-state initiatives

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The UN Forum for Business and Human Rights will take place this year at the Palais de Justice in Geneva 25-27 November 2019. The theme...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Video of Remarks Just Posted: "The Lawyer is not an Algorithm": Remarks on the Ethical Responsibilities of Lawyers in Relation to Sustainability and Corruption

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With great thanks to the amazing Sara Seck , I was delighted to have been given the opportunity think through these challenges as pa...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Luis Luis-- "Remittances to Cuba Revisited: Impact of New Measures"

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(Pix Credit:  Remittances in Cuba, What People Do with the Money , Havana Times (16 May 2019)) Our friends at the Association for ...
Saturday, November 09, 2019

Lectures on Comparative Constitutionalism -- 比较立宪主义

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Will post the lecture notes and PowerPoints in later posts. The descriptions of the lectures follows below. My great thanks to Tong Zhi...
Friday, November 08, 2019

The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack: The Mystery that is at its Most Useful When it Remains Unresolved

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(Pix Credit: So What Is This Secretive Chinese Sonic Weapon Exactly? ) (Pix Credit HERE )) It has been some time since I posted a...
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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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