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3 Dec 2021, 8:19 am
It was my great delight to be able to present a paper, The Algorithmic Law of Business and Human Rights: Constructing a Private Transnational Law of Ratings, Social Credit, and Accountability Measures authored together with Matthew McQuilla (Penn State SIA MIA 2021) at the Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium 2 December 2021.The paper suggests the consequences of the iconoclasm of emerging principles of algorithmic governance--the move from law as an exogenous force to a system of… [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 5:01 pm
Both the patent proprietor and the opponent filed an appeal after the Opposition Division had maintained the patent-in-suit in amended form.Claim 1 of the main request before the Board read:1. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 7:59 am
Conventional wisdom holds that our ongoing war against jihadi groups is utterly unlike a war against a traditional state adversary. [read post]
15 May 2018, 8:01 am
From 2010 Professor Roel Nieuwenkamp was Chair of the OECD Working Party on International Investment and in that capacity chaired the negotiations on the 2011 update of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. [read post]
4 Mar 2023, 1:20 pm
His purpose in writing, and his arguments in their support are easiñy glesned from the article's abstarct:Mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) laws in the European Union (EU) – both enacted and in the making – seem to be a promising tool to harden soft international standards in the business and human rights (BHR) field, the most prominent of these being the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 5:01 am
On July 13, the United States hardened its position against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the South China Sea. [read post]
19 May 2022, 5:01 am
On Feb. 20, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to celebrate initial power generation trials. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 8:01 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)The UN Guiding Principles continue their development. [read post]
8 Sep 2019, 8:17 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)The Coalition for Peace and Ethics BHR Treaty Project is considering Draft of the "Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, The Activities Corporations and Other Business Enterprises," released on 16 July 2019 by the open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) Chairmanship. [read post]
29 May 2014, 5:00 am
Things are often done differently down in Louisiana. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 12:31 pm
My prior blogpost offered some background regarding Zach Liscow’s “Democratic Law and Economics. [read post]
4 Jun 2017, 7:00 am
These battle-hardened rabble-rousers were dubbed “COINdinistas,” a tribute to the figurative insurgency they launched in order to teach the U.S. government how to fight literal insurgencies. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 7:18 am
Pix Credit: New York Times"Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common. [read post]
5 May 2020, 11:51 am
The United States Congress has been decidedly slow to adopt new processes to allow it to legislate and conduct oversight remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 6:16 pm
Pix Credit: Photo: Uighur protest outside the White House in 2009 | Malcolm Brown / Flickr One of the most potently important developments over the course of the last several years has been to shift the focus of business and human rights enforcement from operating companies to the financial sector from which operating companies derive capital. [read post]
12 May 2020, 5:00 am
In fiscal 2016, Congress granted limited acquisition authorities to U.S. [read post]
10 Jan 2015, 8:26 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The recent killings in France--one producing more public response and angst than the other--have again exposed some perhaps substantial contradictions in Western culture, politics, law and governance. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 1:33 pm
Although the two sides reached an agreement to defuse tensions at the border on June 23, domestic political sentiment in India had already hardened against China: Protesters burned images of Chinese President Xi Jinping and called for a boycott of Chinese goods, and analysts argued that India should adopt a more muscular foreign policy to counter Beijing. [read post]
3 May 2020, 1:54 pm
It’s spreading quickly now—governments around the world latching onto our smartphone locations as a proxy for where we all are, when and for how long. [read post]
26 Dec 2019, 2:13 pm
The year 2019 is ending with the great rifts--opened in 2016, exposed in 2017, and acquiring a greater urgency and revealing the power of its consequences in 2018--now exposed. [read post]
