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.

Sunday, October 05, 2025

Without Comment; With Questions: Transcripts of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Trump Addresses to General and Flag Officers at Quantico, Virginia

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  Pix credit here   Thank you very much, Pete. And great job you're doing too, fantastic job. I've never walked into a room so silen...

CfP: Conference, Online Platforms: Private Actors with State-Like Power? organized by Maria Diory Rabajante Daniel Buchmann Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

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  I am delighted to pass along this CfP for the Conference, Online Platforms: Private Actors with State-Like Power? organized by   Maria Dio...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Journal of Legal Education Symposium on 47 Years of Essays and Perhaps a Path Forward

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   I pass along the following announcement: For more than 75 years, the Journal of Legal Education (JLE) has played an essential role in ch...

Just Published: Telos 212 (Fall 2025): Debating Postliberalism

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    I am delighted to pass along the news that  . The description is from the Press Release from David Pan, Telos' editor: Telos 212 (Fa...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

A Transformative Moment for the European Model of Regulatory Governance With Application to AI?: On the EU Digital Omnibus; Simplification But No Pause

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Pix credit here    One might have been excused for believing that the European project of regulatory supervision, or of regulatory governanc...

Brief Reflections on Recent Messages of the Trump Administration to Religious Communities on Michaelmas and Yom Kippur

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  Pix credit here pix credit here     There is a bit of semiotics lurking within the recent messages of the Trump Administration to faith co...
Monday, September 29, 2025

U.N. Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Offers Platform to Build Safe Systems and Open Call for Candidates

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  Pîx credit here  "!The United Nations tends to be a useful mirror, reflecting the current version of orthodoxy among its various stak...

America First as a Template for the Global: Text of the U.S. Cease-Fire Plan for Gaza

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  Pix credit here   Merchants orient around transaction, like  ( The "Merchant" (商), the "Bureaucrat" (士) and the ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

"They Shoot Horses Don't They?". . . . The "Jewish Problem" in "Palestine" as Performed by the State Inmates of that Asylum of Politics

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  Pix credit here and here A year ago the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority both thought it was in their respective best inte...
Friday, September 26, 2025

习近平 纵深推进全国统一大市场建设※ 习近平 [Xi Jinping, "Deepening the Construction of a National Unified Market"]

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  Pix credit here 建设全国统一大市场,既是攻坚战,也是持久战,各地区各部门要从政治和全局高度抓好落实。中央和地方、地方和地方、政府和企业、企业和企业都要加强协调配合,形成推进合力。[Building a unified national market is bo...
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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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