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, October 19, 2024

Cuba's State of Misery -- The Electrical blackouts of October 2024

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  Pix Credit here   I have been writing about the possibility of theorizing a structure, of sorts, to the present consideration of the state...
Friday, October 18, 2024

PowerPoint for Presentation of "Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline" Prepared for 2024 Annual ASCE Conference

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  I take this opportunity to post the PowerPoint I prepared in connection with the presentation of my paper at the 2024 Annual Conference of...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Discussion Draft Posted: "Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline"

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  Pix credit here   I recently shared the program for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy . I...

CfP--22nd Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conference May 28-29, 2025, Shanghai, China

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    Delighted to pass along the CfP for the 22nd Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conferenc e to be held May 28-29, 2025, Shanghai, China....
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Papers: The Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) 2025: "Sustainable Business - Challenges & Opportunities for Latin America.

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    Delighted to pass along this call for papers for the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) 2025 Conference: The Busine...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Annual Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy

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  Pix Credit here I am delighted to share the program for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy ....
Thursday, October 10, 2024

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Volume 37/6, a special issue on "Gender and Law Issues"

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   The Editorial staff of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is thrilled to announce the release of Volume 37/6, a special i...

Discussion Draft Posted: "The Constitution of Fear and the Performance of Crisis: The Dialectical Mimetic Semiotics of the Constitutional State and the Signification of Preambular and Extraconstitutional Texts"

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  Pix credit here   I am delighted to circulate a rough discussion draft I have prepared in anticipation of its first presentation at a con...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

From 高大伟 David Cowhig's Translation Blog: " 1958: Party’s “Rightist” Speech Collection After Hundred Flowers Campaign" 【高等学校右派言論选編 中共中国人民大学委員会社会主义思想敎育办公室】

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Pix Credit here ("What I longed for has arrived") The course of the development of  Chinese Marxist-Leninist theory, as well as o...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

Thoughts for the Day; The Tragedy of Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι (Iphigenia in Aulis) in Contemporary Times: An Anniversary Reflection,

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  Pix credit here   Today, as I think about the events of a year ago , and what came after, I am reminded of Euripides tragedy, Iphigenia in...
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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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