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.

Monday, May 19, 2025

Just Published--Telos 210 (Spring 2025): Rethinking State Power

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  Pix credit here   Telos 210 (Spring 2025 has just been published. It includes a number of quite interesting articles around the issue of s...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Vol. 38(5) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (IJSL) Now Available Online.

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  I am delighted to announce that Volume 38(5) of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is now available online.  Many of the a...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Facilitation, Corruption, and a "Special Ownership Dialogue"--The Latest Batch of Decisions from the Norwegian Pension Fund Global

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Pix credit here The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, its Pension Fund Global, continues to slowly, methodically, and perhaps simplemindedly...
Friday, May 16, 2025

California State Bar "Statement on Recent Federal Executive Actions Threatening the Availability of Legal Counsel and the Rule of Law"

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  Pix credit here   The Board of Trustees of the California State Bar have approved and issued its " Statement on Recent Federal Execu...

From Trade Complementarity Within Latin America to Building Silk Roads to China: U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), "Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean and China: areas of opportunity for more productive, inclusive and sustainable development "

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    I wrote recently about Mexican movement toward Latin American regional development in the shadow of the interests and initiatives of the...

Webinar: "(Un-)natural Rights in Outer Space"

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   All are invited to the upcoming webinar:  "(Un-)natural Rights in Outer Space"  – a critical dialogue on the legal, philosophic...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Trade Complementarity and Latin American Regionalism -- Transcript of Press Conference Claudia Sheinbaum at the Presidential Palace, Mexico City 13 May 2025

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  Pix credit here A quite interesting Press Conference on the reform of health care in Mexico.  It is useful as much for its content as it i...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

CfP 26th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL); Theme: "Textiles of Truth: Law, Language, and the Semiotics of Environmental Style"

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    I am delighted to pass along this Call for Papers for the 26th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL), the theme of wh...
Monday, May 12, 2025

"ART OF THE DEAL: U.S., China Ink Initial Trade Deal" and "Full text: Joint Statement on China-U.S. Economic and Trade Meeting in Geneva"

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  Pix Credit here   The Era of Transaction appears to be moving forward in its own way, a pathway that is itself paved with the detritus of...

Reaffirmation of New Directions in Recylcled Bottles--Address of Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals

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  Pix credit here  The Cardinals wanted a town hall style meeting with the new Pope.  And the Pope chose to oblige--not just them but the la...
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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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