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.

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Frank S. Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer Discuss Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution; Reading Edwards v. Aguillard 482 US 578 (1987) and Kitzmiller v. Dover Area Sch. Dist, 400 F.Supp.2d 707 (2005)

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Pix Credit HERE   Frank S. Ravitch and I have just published the 4th Edition to our casebook, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (West A...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

In Commemoration: Proclamation 3071—Veteran's Day, 1954

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  Pix Credit HERE The 20th century was one at war--at war with itself, and among a significant portion of social, ethnic, religious, and cul...

Los Difuntos, la disonancia y el desafío a los órdenes establecidos: pensamientos en vísperas de las protestas planificadas en Cuba el 15 de noviembre de 2021

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    ENGLISH VERSION HERE   Las transiciones producen su propio teatro. Estos están destinados a traducir lo que podrían ser trayectorias c...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Death, Dissonance, and Challenge to Established Orders: Thoughts on the Eve of the Planned Protests in Cuba 15 November 2021

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  EN ESPAÑOL Transitions produce their own theater.  These are meant to translate what might be complex trajectories of change, challenge, r...
Monday, November 08, 2021

Discussion Draft Posted: "The Communist Party of China as Polity: The Party-State and the Chinese Constitutional Order "

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  Pix Credit HERE   Sometimes it is important to take a step back and reconsider the basics.  This becomes more important in times of tensio...
Sunday, November 07, 2021

23. Conversations About the Book "Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems': Chapter 22 (Monday 30 March 2020) The COVID-19 Factor

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  Pix Credit HERE  “言有尽而意无穷” [Words and meanings are endless].  In the run up to the book launch sche...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

Lanzamiento Protocolo Marco para la Actuación de Defensorías en Empresas y Derechos Humanos

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Jueves, 4 Noviembre 2021, La Defensoría del Pueblo de la Nación lanzó el Protocolo Marco para la Actuación de Defensorías del Pueblo en Emp...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Video Recording Now Available: Penn State JLIA Fall Speaker Series; A Conversation with Peter Martin About his Book--"China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy"

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  The Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs invited  Mr. Peter Martin  to discuss his recent book, "China's Civilian...
Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First Launches Violation Tracker UK, Supplements U.S. Violation Tracker Mechanism

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  Pix Credit HERE   It was recently announced that the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First is launching Violation Tracker UK, a f...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Video Recordings Now Available for the Seminar Series: "A framework treaty on business and human rights: Interdisciplinary insights" University of Dundee Institute for Social Sciences Research (ISSR).

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    The debates about a draft Treaty on Business and human rights has become more interesting as the core group that has served as the vangu...
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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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