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10 Feb 2016, 7:16 pm
COmments, reactions, etc. most welcome.Regulating Multinational Corporations — Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Larry Catá Backer Brown Journal of World Affairs 22(1):153-173 (Fall/Winter 2015). [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 2:58 am
©Larry Catá Backer; Pieter Bruegel, The Tower of Babel 1563 (Vienna Arthistorical Museum) The issue of the social relations between humans and the virtual spaces they inhabit--which are populated by both human dependent and, increasingly by self-learning programs that have acquired a certain amount of autonomy from their coders--have begun to capture the imagination of social collectives. [read post]
21 Mar 2015, 8:27 pm
The paper may be downloaded here.Fractured Territories and Abstracted Terrains: Human Rights Governance Regimes Within and Beyond the State Larry Catá Backer Abstract: Two significant changes in the organization of power became visible after the 1950s. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 8:59 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)It has been well known that the OECD's social norm Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (2011) has been long on principles and short on remedies. [read post]
31 Dec 2018, 1:05 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The year 2018 is ending with the great rifts opened in 2016, and exposed in 2017, now acquiring a greater urgency and show and revealing the power of its consequences. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 4:58 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Part V:1. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 7:02 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)China continues to develop its constitutional relationship with its special administrative zones--principally Hong Kong and Macao. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 8:18 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been suggesting the way in which state protection of religion against insult or incitement can contribute significantly to societal norms in which offenses against religion might itself be viewed as enough to insulate people from the legal effects of killing (Ruminations 57: On Hacking Bloggers to Death in Bangladesh and the Price of Insulting Religion). [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 12:31 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]
20 Oct 2020, 1:15 pm
The discussion draft may be accessed here: Larry Catá Backer, COVID, Control, and Complicity in Rwanda: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal and Markets Regimes, CPE Working Paper 10/1 (October 20, 2020). [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 7:09 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) The issue of the human rights responsibilities of universities has become acute recently at universities like the Pennsylvania State University, in the context of the conditions of employment related to its health and wellness programs. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 12:00 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018; Varadero beachfront)The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack in Cuba is slowly but now quite perceptively shaping the contours of U.S. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 1:13 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)It was my great privilege to participate in the ASIL Business and Human Rights Roundtable, 'International Human Rights Law and Business: Evaluating the Impact of UNGPs’. [read post]
12 May 2019, 1:24 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)The Working Group on Empire of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics looks to to study and theorize the construction of systems of management and control of human activities, that is of empire in the 21st century. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 12:22 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Flora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 6:12 am
(Pix (C) Larry Catá Backer 2014)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 6:30 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES), based in Brussels, Belgium, serves as an umbrella organization for employee owners, and others who seek to promote employee ownership. [read post]
18 Jul 2015, 11:57 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Recent reports from our friends at the Conference Board suggest that, especially among large transnational enterprises that may feel the effects of pressure to conform to international business and human rights standards more strongly, U.S. enterprises are more strongly embracing these international business and human rights standards in their formal practices and policies. [read post]
17 Aug 2019, 11:54 am
(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]
19 Oct 2017, 10:41 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 Vatican Museum Episodes of the Passion Tournai 14th cent) If the Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack has a defining element, it is the way in which it may substantially affect Cuba's efforts to rejoin the global economic and finance communities it turned its back on in the early 1960s. [read post]
