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, December 14, 2023

Parallel Barking Podcast: "Three Ivy League Presidents Versus Congress on Antisemitism"

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    Episode description : Presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT were questioned about rising antisemitism on college campuses at a House comm...
Monday, December 11, 2023

"Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI" : Text of European Parliament Press Release 9 December 2023

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Pix Credit 'Variety' here In earnest since 2021, officials within the European Union, and interested stakeholders worldwide, have b...
Friday, December 08, 2023

Context and the Discourse of Discourse: UPenn and Harvard Presidents Re-Imagine the Meaning of their Speech-Acts as the Relevant Context Changes

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  Pix Credit Here   I have written a little about the most remarkable testimony, followed by an even more remarkable colloquy, between high ...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Contextually Relevant Discourse: Text of Statements Delivered by the Presidents of Penn, MIT, and Harvard for the U.S. House of Representatives Hearing-- "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism"

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  Pix Credit New York Times   On 5 December 2023, NPR posted its reporting on a U.S. House of Representatives hearing that had produced nati...

Latin America and the Caribbean Invest in China: Just Published--(Enrique Dussel Peters (ed)) "Latin American and Caribbean Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in China in the 21st Century" (Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023)

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  Enrique Dussel Peters has announced the publication of an important book:  Latin American and Caribbean Overseas Foreign Direct Investme...
Monday, December 04, 2023

In Pictures--Automate and Delegate!: 制定实施"中央八项规定" [Formulate and implement the eight provisions of the CPC Central Committee]

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    The new trend of the times is around us Doing things in one step Formulate and implement eight central regulations. It is our party’s ef...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Parallel Barking Podcast: "Weaponizing Migrants--Russia Diverting Asylum Seekers to Finland"

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    Episode description : In attempts to destabilize the West, Russia and its allies have been using migrants as pawns. After Russia invaded...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Brief Reflections on Guidance for "Foreign Related Legal System Construction" [涉外法制建设 营造] in the New Era: 习近平在中共中央政治局第十次集体学习时强调 加强涉外法制建设营造有利法治条件和外部环境 [During the 10th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping emphasized strengthening the construction of foreign-related legal systems to create favorable legal conditions and (harmonious) external environment]

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  Pix credit here ("Revolutionary friendship (Friends from Asia, Africa and Latin America visit the Museum of the Chinese revolutionar...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Just Published: (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (eds)) Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (Edward Elgar, 2023)

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I am delighted to pass along the announcement of the publication of (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (eds)) Research Handbook on Legal Semiot...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Reflections on Brainstorming Roundtable Hosted by Surya Deva, UN Special Rapporteur for Development (29 Nov 2023): "business models for inclusive sustainable development"

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  Pix Credit here  April showers bring may flowers, but what do brainstorm sessions bring? Organizations in the UK have the answer: offended...
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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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