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6 Jan 2016, 12:12 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The status quo that had been the Caribbean region--centering on the adversarial relationship between Cuba and the United States, and the socialist axis tied to the regional coordination of Cuba and Venezuela--has been upended in the past year. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 7:03 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)At least since the Second World War American elites, as successors to and in concert with their Western European comrades, have sought to control the conversation about democracy, democratic legitimacy, and the appropriate forms within which states might structure their internal governance, especially when it relates to the ease with which Euro-American elites might penetrate these subordinate states. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 10:13 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi, has written a report on the recent Supreme Court of India case, Reserve Bank of India v. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 6:48 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015 )作者简介： Larry Catá… [read post]
24 Dec 2015, 11:49 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been writing about recent efforts to manage civil society by states. [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]
20 Dec 2015, 9:13 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)Fédération Internationale de Football Association's (FIFA)s scandals are by now well known.Fifa, football's world governing body, has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since summer 2015, when the US Department of Justice indicted several top executives. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 10:43 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)It was my great pleasure to participate at a Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulation: Comparative Perspectives, held at the Law Faculty of the City University of Hong Kong and sponsored by them and the Copenhagen Business School. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 7:17 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)On 11-12 December, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) hosted the International Conference on the “Rule of Law and Judicial Reform” … [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 10:26 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)At the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel on "International Economic Topics" (see here).I have just posted the paper from that presentation: Global Corporate Social Responsibility (GCSR) Standards With Cuban Characteristics: What Normalization Means for Transnational Enterprise Activity in Cuba. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 11:45 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi, has been writing about Sri Lanka's current efforts to legislate transparency regimes. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 9:17 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)It was my great honor to have been invited to participate in an upcoming conference hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and organized by the CASS Institute of Law to take place 11-12 December 2015 in Beijing: International Conference on the “Rule of Law and Judicial Reform” … [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 6:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati is devoted to teaching and promoting the sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and law and society research. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 5:22 am
(See here) FLIA's commentary, submitted to government officials, consists of the following, all of which may be accessed through the links provided below:COVER LETTER and GENERAL COMMENTS (FLIA and Larry Catá Backer) TECHNICAL COMMENTS (Jędrzej Górski, Zhu Shaoming, Flora Sapio) [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 6:50 pm
--> Comments to Charity Undertakings Law of the PRC (Draft) 中华人民共和国慈善事业法（草案） （征求意见稿）Larry Catá BackerW. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 2:34 pm
Larry Catá Backer, "The Cuban Communist Party at the Center of Political and Economic Reform: Current Status and Future Reform," Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 8:71-129 (2015). [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 9:02 am
The first day of the 2015 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights offered a dual track palette of offerings that were meant to engage the broad spectrum of participants in attendance. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 9:14 am
Contents include: Fabio Bassan, Introduction Massimiliano Castelli & Fabio Scacciavillani, SWFs and State investments: A preliminary general overview Fabio Bassan, Sovereign wealth funds: A definition and classification Larry Catá Backer, SWFs in five continents and three narratives: Similarities and differences Locknie Hsu, Santiago GAPPs and codes of conduct: Limits and chances of negotiated rules Kathryn Gordon & Joachim Pohl, Policy… [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 2:22 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer)Measuring Business & Human Rights launched a blog series on how to assess and track implementation of the UNGPs. [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 1:36 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)I am happy to report on the International Conference--Rules for the Market and Market for Rules: Corporate Law and the Rule of the Legislature, which was held 13-14 November, 2015. [read post]
