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5 Feb 2014, 11:52 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]
5 Aug 2019, 7:18 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]
8 Feb 2018, 8:09 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)It appears to be something of a global trend now, or at least a movement with sufficient repetitions to merit some notice, that governments are becoming more selective in the scope and character of the information they make available and yet increasingly eager to produce transparency in non governmental enterprises and other institutions. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 6:54 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 6:35 pm
(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 2013, 8:34 pm
(Pix Source HERE)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 7:06 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The Human Rights Council again begins its meetings. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 1:28 pm
(Backer, Larry Catá, Sovereign Investing in Times of Crisis: Global Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds, State Owned Enterprises and the Chinese Experience. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 7:31 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]
11 Feb 2014, 7:54 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]
23 Apr 2017, 8:41 am
Penn State University, University Park, PA April 21, 2017.Larry Catá Backer (Professor, Penn State University)I have been tasked with the great responsibility of closing this excellent conference. [read post]
9 Sep 2018, 6:42 pm
Tong Zhiwei, Sun Ping, and Larry Catá Backer will consider the interplay of issues that together pose the greatest challenges and suggest maximum opportunity for China, and for U.S. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 7:46 am
(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]
14 Sep 2015, 6:52 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 1:01 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Despite their sometime vocal protestations to the contrary, sovereign wealth funds, and the states that use them, have increasingly sought to leverage their financial power to develop strong and interconnected governance frameworks within the areas in which they are most active--corporate governance, standards of investing and the management of market integrity (here, here and here). [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:04 pm
The first part of the Event was devoted to a presentation by Professor Zhiwei Tong, assisted by Sun Ping (Each China), Larry Catá Backer (Penn State), Flora Sapio (Uni Naples), Keren Wang (Penn State), Gao Shan (Penn State SJD), and Miaoqiang Dai (Penn State). [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 9:41 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)This from the U.S. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 8:45 am
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2017)For those who might find this sort of engagement interesting, I pass along a "Call for Inputs" for the Human Rights High Commissioner's forthcoming report on civil society space. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 2:44 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]
27 Jun 2016, 3:48 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In a prior post I suggested the nature of the consequences when the tension between mass democracy--the notion of popular sovereignty directly or indirectly exercised through the performative act of voting on discrete questions or for representatives in the apparatus of state--and governance is activated through the mechanism of a popular plebiscite. [read post]
