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, December 10, 2021

Democracy Wars II: Remarks By President Biden At The Summit For Democracy Opening Session and Video Remarks by Other Participating National Delegations

›
  Pix Credit here I have been chronicling the development of a Chinese Marxist-Leninist democracy counter-narrative to the once virtually un...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

"'The Flower of Democracy Blooms Brilliantly in China’ ['中国的民主之花绚丽绽放']: The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Constitutional Order " Presentation and Paper for Workshop: "Constitutional Law of Greater China"

›
  The extraordinary  Ngoc Son Bui (my interview with him here ) has organized a very interesting workshop ( Constitutional Law of Greater Ch...
Sunday, December 05, 2021

The Democracy Wars: State Council White Papers--[中国的民主] "China: Democracy That Works" and [美国民主情况] "The State of Democracy in the United States"

›
  Pix Credit Xinhuanet 5 Dec 2021   "(一)制度痼疾积重难返; (二)民主实践乱象丛生; (三)输出所谓民主产生恶果 ((1) The system's chronic defects are difficult to ov...
Saturday, December 04, 2021

Workshop: "Constitutional Law of Greater China" Organised by Ngoc Son Bui and the Oxford Programme in Asian Laws (Virtual; 9-10 December 2021)

›
I am delighted to share information about the upcoming Workshop: Constitutional Law of Greater China . It is organized by Ngoc Son Bui and t...
Friday, December 03, 2021

"The Algorithmic Law of Business and Human Rights: Constructing a Private Transnational Law of Ratings, Social Credit, and Accountability Measures": Presentation at Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium 2 December 2021 (PPT and Draft)

›
  It was my great delight to be able to present a paper,  The Algorithmic Law of Business and Human Rights: Constructing a Private Transnati...

Please Join the Celebration of Erika George's New Book, "Incorporating Rights: Taking Stock of Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability" (9 December 2021 Noon US Mountain Time)

›
I am delighted to pass along information about a virtual celebration of the publication of Erika George's important new book: Incorporat...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium: 1-3 December 2021HEC Paris--Zoom Pre-Program, Registration and Program

›
    I am happy to pass along information about the Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium scheduled for 1-3 December 2021 and held at HEC Pa...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Frank S. Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer Discuss Ceremonial Deism, the Role of Custom and Tradition, Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983), and Town of Greece v. Galloway, 572 U.S. 565 (2014)

›
Pix Credit HERE Frank S. Ravitch and I have just published the 4th Edition to our casebook, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (West...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

The Discursive Edifice of the Chinese Belt & Road Initiative in Africa: State Council of China White Paper-- "China and Africa in the New Era: A Partnership of Equals" [《新时代的中非合作》白皮书(全文)]

›
Pix Credit South China Morning Post Recently, it was announced that the China-Africa Conference will be geld in Senegal 29-30 November (see ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

24. Conversations About the Book "Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems': Chapter 23 (Sunday 19 April 2020) The COVID-19 Accelerator Effect: The Situation in Hong Kong and the Virtual Conflict Between the United States and China.

›
  Pix Credit Hong Kong Free Press HERE  “言有尽而意无穷” [Words and meanings are endless].  In the run up to the book launch scheduled for 13...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.