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13 Feb 2018, 6:12 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The issue of sovereign debt has been a sensitive matter in Cuba for almost a generation. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 7:21 pm
WGE is composed of members of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics of whom Flora Sapio, Larry Catá Backer, and James Korman have taken a leading role; its work product is collaborative. [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 9:03 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)The indulgence of extremes in politics  invariably has a terrible effect--not on the political classes that profit from cultivating these schisms, but on the people on whose bodies these ideologies are etched--in hunger, deprivation, and forced migration. [read post]
25 Nov 2022, 7:31 am
(Larry Catá Backer, Emasculated Men, Effeminate Law in the United States, Zimbabwe and Malaysia, (2005) 17(1) Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 1-63 (2005), pp. 1-2).Corruption remains the defining issue in the relationship between them, and between the ruling elites and the people and collective structures of Malaysia, as it has since the end of the 1990s. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 9:30 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In the United States since the 20th century, important non state actors have assumed powerful quasi legislative functions. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 6:42 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Flora Sapio and I continue our experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 1:51 pm by Larry Catá Backer
 (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Gobal civil society elements is gearing up for the upcoming 2013 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 1:12 am
(About the Book)Those participating include: Dr Alessandro Spano, Lecturer in Chinese Law and Co-Director, UCL China Centre (Chair); Prof Leila Choukroune, Professor of International Law and Director of the University of Portsmouth Thematic Area in Democratic Citizenship (Co-Chair);Prof Larry Catá Backer, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Mr Ji Ma, Research Associate, China, Law and Development Project at Oxford University;Prof Julien… [read post]
14 Mar 2018, 7:22 pm
Guided by changes in the Chinese Communist Party Congress and China’s broader engagement with the world economy, the author considers the dynamics and implications of future-oriented, aspirational, nation-level projects such as the One Belt One Road Initiative.Keren Wang, Sacrificial Personae Under Conditions of Digital Governmentality Commentator: Nicholas SchultzClosing RemarksLarry Catá Backer [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 12:52 pm
 (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The Collège des Bernardins in Paris offers a rich intellectual life for those lucky enough be be able to participate. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 5:24 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]
10 Nov 2013, 9:46 am
 (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)It is likely that much effort will be devoted to ideological work. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 8:46 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)The IGWG (the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights) will hold its Third session, 23-27 October 2017, in Geneva. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 11:44 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014 )--> This article builds substantially on a paper presented at the International Conference on the Realization of Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Perspectives from China and India, City University of Hong Kong School of Law, Nov. 29–30, 2012, to be published elsewhere as -->"The Role of Companies in Privatizing Socio-Economic Rights in India and China Under Emerging Global… [read post]