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1 Mar 2016, 11:31 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) The mania for governance, and especially for regulatory governance, a mania that one might think has begun to consume those with influence or authority to make their ideas reality, has begun to assume the willful instrumentalism of a science--the science of animal husbandry applied to mass society. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 6:44 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]
11 Feb 2013, 7:46 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) Part 10: The U.S. [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]
2 Mar 2015, 7:06 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The Human Rights Council again begins its meetings. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 8:58 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]
7 Dec 2017, 6:51 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [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]
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]
16 Mar 2021, 12:10 pm
Those interested in my qualms about the process and its unintended perverse effects may consider them at See Larry Catá Backer, "Moving Forward the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Between Enterprise Social Norm, State Domestic Legal Orders, and the Treaty Law That Might Bind Them All," Fordham Int'l L.J. 38:457 (2015). [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, 11:24 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Flora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 8:39 am
In the context of the regulation of economic enterprises, the spillover is threatening, that is threatening to the autonomy and character of corporate regulatory and operational principles--as it has been since the 1970s (recounted years ago when the great priestly keepers of corporate orthodoxy did not think this much worth notice in Backer, Larry Catá, Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nation's Norms on the… [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]
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]
18 Nov 2024, 4:37 am
It may be accessed HERE.What awaits Sino-US ties in Trump 2.0 era By Larry Catá Backer | China Daily | Updated: 2024-11-16 09:07 SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY The 2024 US presidential election result will have a significant effect on not only the US' domestic affairs but also… [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 7:45 pm
WongCenter for Chinese Law; University of Hong Kong; 25 August 2023) REMARKS: Inside the Cage of the System (制度的笼子里): Standards Setting, National Security Values, Tech Platforms, Regulation, and the Central Contradiction of Legality in the Current Historical EraLarry Catá Backer (白 轲) W. [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 7:27 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)The announcement was historic. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 8:25 am
Introductory Note )Throughout the week starting 20 June 2022, the co-editors will post written contributions on the homepage of the Symposium in the following order:--Monday: Introduction by co-editors Justine Batura (Twitter: @JustineBatura), Anna Sophia Tiedeke & Michael Riegner (Twitter: @riegnerm)--Monday, 1 pm: Giulia Botta--Tuesday, 8 am: Jonathan Klaaren (Twitter: @JonathanKlaaren)--Tuesday, 1 pm: Lucas Roorda (Twitter: @LRoordaLaw)--Wednesday, 8 am: Claire Methven O‘Brien (Twitter:… [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 5:28 pm
Introductory Note )Throughout the week starting 20 June 2022, the co-editors will post written contributions on the homepage of the Symposium in the following order:--Monday: Introduction by co-editors Justine Batura (Twitter: @JustineBatura), Anna Sophia Tiedeke & Michael Riegner (Twitter: @riegnerm)--Monday, 1 pm: Giulia Botta--Tuesday, 8 am: Jonathan Klaaren (Twitter: @JonathanKlaaren)--Tuesday, 1 pm: Lucas Roorda (Twitter: @LRoordaLaw)--Wednesday, 8 am: Claire Methven O‘Brien (Twitter:… [read post]
