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, November 22, 2025

America First but For Whose Benefit?: Reflections on the 28-point peace plan for Ukraine backed by the United States, according to a copy seen by Reuters

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  Allegory of the first partition of Poland , showing Catherine the Great of Russia (left), Joseph II of Austria (middle) and Frederick th...
Friday, November 21, 2025

"Ninu igbá naa ni" [All that he created exists in the calabash] Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) Hearing: "China’s War on Religion: The Threat to Religious Freedom and Why it Matters to the United States"

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  Pix credit here  (Ming; Shuili Ritual Painting)  I have been following the work of the  Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Larry Catá Backer, "Smart Court, Smarter Party: A Necessary but Incomplete Interpenetration" [智慧法院,智慧党:必要但不完全的相互渗透] (European China Law Research Hub)

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  Pix credit ECLRHub     Over the last several years, the folks over at the European Chinese Law Research Hub (with thanks to Marianne von...
Monday, November 17, 2025

The Triumph of the Transactional: UN Security Council Endorses U.S. Drafted UN Security Council Resolution on the Situation in the "Middle East"

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  Pix Credit Foreign Policy  It appears that the United States has at least temporarily out maneuvered the Russian and and Chinese in develo...

A Transformative Moment for the Politics of Sovereign Investing and Markets-Based Transnational Rule of Law Building:The Norway Pension Fund Global System Temporarily Goes Dark

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Pix credit here It seems that the enthusiasm of Europeans around "doing something"  in the Israel-Hamas War that would signal thei...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Announcing Publication of Issue 156 Vol 34 The Journal of Contemporary China

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  I  am delighted to pass along a message from Professor Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) announc...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Announcement of Event organized by OHCHR’s Business and Human Rights Section on The Urgency of Helpdesks on Business and Human Rights (24 November 2025)

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Pix credit here  I have written in the past about the effort of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to create a sort of gu...
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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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