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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]
25 Jan 2024, 4:30 pm
Participants:Dale Copeland (University of Virginia)Rohan Mukerjee (London School of Economics)Audrye Wong (University of Southern California)Jack Zhang (University of Kansas)12:30 - 1:30 LunchLunch Briefing: Harboring Global Ambitions: China's Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval BasesSpeaker: Sheng Zhang (AidData)1:30 - 3:00 US-China Relations in the AI Age Moderator: Margaret Hu (William & Mary School of… [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]
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]
26 May 2021, 8:13 am
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22 Nov 2017, 9:32 am
The PPT f my own presentation will follow in another post.International Symposium on The Corporation in a Changing World Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law SUFE Law School Commercial Law Center October 21st – 22nd, 2017 Conference Agenda Day One: Oct 21st (Saturday) Opening Ceremony Moderator: Xiaoyan Song, Professor & Acting Vice Dean, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law Speakers:Shaohua Zheng, Professor & Assistant to the President,… [read post]
22 Oct 2016, 6:45 pm
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2016) One is used to speaking about sovereign wealth funds either as vehicles for the projection of state power into the capital markets of foreign states through acquisition of foreign securities. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 5:39 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 2:38 pm
(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of my Elements of Law and the United States Legal System (ISBN: 978-1-61163-927-8 • e-ISBN: 978-1-61163-984-1).The work made sense as a century of legalization (here and here) and judicialization (here and here) forces more and more people worldwide to bump up against aspects of aspects of the U.S: legal system. [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]
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]
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]
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]
2 Feb 2014, 8:12 pm
(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]
5 Nov 2020, 6:54 pm
For the ASCE Series' next interview, Larry Catá Backer had the great pleasure of speaking with Dr. [read post]
14 Oct 2017, 2:38 am
(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer 2017)Now that the United States and Cuba have staked out their (well rehearsed and often deployed routine) positions, the two states have begun the "litigation" phase of their state-to-state conflict in the courts of public opinion. [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 11:11 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Flora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 12:40 pm
(Larry Catá Backer, "From Guiding Principles to Interpretive Organizations: Developing a Framework for Applying the UNGPs to Disputes that Institutionalizes the Advocacy Role of Civil Society," in Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning 97-110 (César Rodríguez Garavito, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017) . [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 10:22 am
Pix ©Larry Catá Backer, Peter Bruegel, Massacre of the Innocents (copy after 1575); Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum) I am happy to circulate the following announcement:INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - LILLE UNIVERSITYCombating Gender-based Violencehttps://crdp.univ-lille.fr/evenement/gender-equityPlease find attached the call for abstracts for three panels Working language English only:Panel 1 - Culture, Religion and Gender-based violence… [read post]
