Search for: "Larry Catá Backer" Results 221 - 240 of 1,077
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
Working Towards a Treaty for Business and Human Rights--An Opportunity to Share Your Ideas; Call for Inputs by the Open Ended International Working Group
9 Aug 2016, 8:10 pm
(Pix © 2014 Larry Catá Backer)The Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations  and other business enterprises was established in the wake of a successful effort by a group of states to seek a treaty based approach to the regulation of the conduct of so-called transnational enterprises under international law. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Interview: Nicolas Scholz COVID-19, the Situation in Germany and an EU Perspective, for Upcoming Webinar "COVID-19 and International Affairs" (17 April 2020)
16 Apr 2020, 2:14 pm
For our second interview, Larry Catá Backer spoke of COVID-19 and meaning making. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Interview: Jonathan Kiwana on African Perspectives; Uganda and the Response to the COVID-19, for Upcoming Webinar "COVID-19 and International Affairs" (17 April 2020)
14 Apr 2020, 6:17 pm
For our second interview, Larry Catá Backer spoke of COVID-19 and meaning making. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Prologue--Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual: The Social Self
28 Feb 2016, 1:38 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In 2015, Flora Sapio and I started an experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Just Posted: Flora Sapio, "‘Social Responsibility’ in the Governance of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises"
14 Aug 2019, 8:01 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)I am delighted to pass along notice of the posting by Flora Sapio of an excellent new paper,  ‘Social Responsibility in the Governance of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Chinese Constitutionalism: The References to Constitutions in the Reports of the Chinese Communist Party Congresses--A Preliminary Historical View
17 Nov 2017, 5:03 pm
 (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)A question that emerged during the course of the recently concluded Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress (here, here and here) the speakers raised a very interesting issue that might merit some further initial discussion. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Social Credit (China and Abroad; Public and Private): Index of Posts
16 Sep 2017, 7:30 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)  --> I have started thinking through the issues around social credit generally, and the Chinese Social Credit project. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
From the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: Annual Legal Accountability Annual Briefing
8 Feb 2015, 11:38 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The folks at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre have recently announced the distribution of their Corporate Legal Accountability Annual Briefing. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
New law book series « Gender, Justice, and Legal Feminism » Now Accepting Proposals
2 Feb 2023, 6:36 pm
Pix Credit © Larry Catá Backer; Max Ernst, Logique sans peine (1966); Vienna Freud Museum Anne Wagner (Liile) and Angela Condello (Messina) have announced the launch of a new law book series «Gender, Justice, and Legal Feminism » for Springer. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Syllabus for Course on "Globalization and the Transnational Enterprise"
7 Jan 2020, 7:30 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)I have been developing a course on transnational (or multinational; I use the terms interchangeably) enterprises. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Interview: Pini Miretski COVID-19, the State and Technology From the Perspective of Russia, Ukraine and other Post Soviet States, and Israel, for Upcoming Webinar "COVID-19 and International Affairs" (17 April 2020)
16 Apr 2020, 1:26 pm
For our second interview, Larry Catá Backer spoke of COVID-19 and meaning making. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Litigating Cuba: Havana Docks Corp. v. Carnival Corporation and the LIBERTAD Act
26 Sep 2020, 7:02 pm
 (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 (Havana Harbor from Regla))Title III of the LIBERTAD Act, “created a private right of action against any person who ‘traffics’ in confiscated Cuban property. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Call For Papers: "Workshop on Business and Human Rights – Networks of Transnational Governance" at Hebrew University
3 Jan 2014, 2:22 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)The workshop aims to bring together scholars and practitioners, in order to examine the various interfaces among networks of transnational regulation designed to regulate the respect of businesses for human rights. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
New Paper Posted: "China’s Corporate Social Responsibility With National Characteristics: Coherence and Dissonance With the Global Business and Human Rights Project"
10 Jun 2014, 10:26 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)) Corporate social responsibility, both in its traditional forms and in its current international form as as species of human rights, has become an important issue of corporate governance both in the national and international spheres.But the discourse, and the premises underlying it, are usually based on Western models of corporate governance and the structuring of political states and public order. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Now Available Video Recording of Launch Event for Book: Larry Catá Backer "Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems'" 13 July 2021
14 Jul 2021, 6:31 am
Larry Catá Backer is W. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Discussion Draft Posted: "Overcoming the Human, Rights, and the State in Human Rights"
25 Jan 2024, 8:12 am
.; Edward Elgar     Overcoming the Human, Rights,and the State in Human Rights Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) W. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Announcing Publication of "Paths for Cuba: Reforming Communism in Comparative Perspective" (Scott Morgenstern, Jorge Pérez-López, and Jerome Branche, eds.)
21 Dec 2018, 12:50 pm
The Cuban Communist Party on the Cusp of Change Larry Catá Backer 7. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Video Recording of Panel 4 (Issues in Cuban Agriculture) Now Available--ASCE 2021 Conference (4-6 January 2021)--"Caught in a Perfect 'Storm': Are Havana's Responses Sufficient?
5 Jan 2021, 3:37 pm
     Agriculture   --Chair: Larry Catá Backer, Penn State University --Mario A. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
The Problem With Quantitative Analysis is Fundamental Incomparability--Fernandez, et al. on "Huge Dispersion of the Risk-Free Rate and Market Risk Premium Used by Analysts in 2015"
10 Nov 2015, 7:14 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)As policy within the economic and political spheres becomes more "evidence based" it is useful to remember that while a number may serve as a proxy for something approaching an absolute value, the meaning of that number (or combinations of numbers--data) is a far less certain exercise. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
23rd Annual Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy: "Reforming Cuba?"
29 Jul 2013, 1:07 pm by Larry Catá Backer
External RelationsChair: Larry Catá Backer, The Pennsylvania State University--Roger B. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/