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News From Cuba: Fear of Rising Foreign Debt, Challenges for Development, and Few Short Term Prospects; Resolution 19/2018 Banco de Cuba

6 Mar 2018, 7:46 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)Since the failure of U.S. [read post]

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Coalition for Peace & Ethics: Input to the UNGPs +10: "Toward a Decade of Global Implementaiton"

2 Oct 2020, 6:46 pm

Input to the UNGPs 10+/ Next Decade BHR project Business and human rights – towards a decade of global implementation Coalition for Peace & Ethics Submitted by Larry Catá Backer W. [read post]

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Part 18 (CCP Leadershp-Socialist Culture)--On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

20 Sep 2015, 8:00 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]

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Ruminations XLI: On the Social Construction of Preservation and Transparency in the Digital Age

25 Sep 2012, 9:06 pm by Larry Catá Backer

" Larry Catá Backer, Ruminations XXXII: Knowledge Governance, the Governance of Knowledge and the Politics of Information as a Behavior Management Technique, Law at the End of the Day, Oct. 13, 2010). [read post]

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Chapter 5 (Chapter Summaries) Law Articulated by Legislatures: Statutory Law: "Elements of Law and the United States Legal System"

15 Feb 2017, 5:45 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]

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Part 11: In Search of an Ideology of Popular Affirmation in its Post Revolutionary Ecology (Caribbean Marxism's Socialist Democracy Series, Considering the Cuban Constitutional Project, From Communist Party to Popular Plebiscite)

19 Mar 2019, 3:02 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 (Viñales)) In this post and those that follow we will begin to flesh out what we see as the great challenges of democracy in illiberal states, and the methods undertaken by the Caribbean (Cuban) form of Marxism Leninism, to meet those challenges. [read post]

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FIFA's Responsibility to Respect Human Rights--John Ruggie to Report in March 2016 on Incorporation of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights to Sports League

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]

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Social Credit in the West: Non-State Rating Systems for CSR Compliance

16 Sep 2017, 1:56 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)I have started thinking through the issues around social credit generally, and the Chinese Social Credit project. [read post]

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Part 20 (CCP Leadership-Socialist Ecological Progress)--On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

21 Sep 2015, 5:31 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]

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Cuba Beyond the Cusp of Change (Day 4b): Reflections on a Week Long Penn State Graduate Course in Cuba; We Get to Feel Like Cubans—The Saratoga Hotel Refuses to Let Me and My U.S. Graduate Students Enter their Lobby—The Cuban People are Owed the Apology

12 Mar 2017, 1:56 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)It is my great privilege to have been encouraged to design and hold a week long embedded course program through Pennsylvania State University. [read post]

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The Trouble with the Institutions of International Human Rights--Dissonance and Incoherence Between States and the International Organizations that Serve Them

26 Aug 2014, 1:47 pm

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)A recent speech given by Navi Pillay, the outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights nicely frames the contradictions and constrains of the architecture for international peace and security that is the product of the premises of framework for organizing the community of states from a global community just emerging from the last global war in 1945, a community that has for all practical purposes now passed onto history. [read post]

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Ruminations 80: If the Focus of Regulation is on the Victim, are Individuals Made Victims Twice? Rights, Autonomy, and the Emerging Governance Framework for Business and Human Rights

3 Nov 2018, 8:19 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)All of the ages of humanity are interesting in their own way (e.g., here). [read post]

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Ruminations 57: On Hacking Bloggers to Death in Bangladesh and the Price of Insulting Religion

9 Aug 2015, 6:38 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)On August 7, 2015, the Wall Street Journal, like other Western media outlets, reported that another blogger, 40-year-old Niloy Chattopadhyay writing under the pseudonym Niloy Neel, had been hacked to death in Bangladesh. [read post]

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Part 31 (The Constitutional Character of the General Program)--On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

12 Sep 2016, 11:32 am

(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]

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1-Reflections on the 2018 U.N. Business and Human Rights Forum

29 Nov 2018, 7:43 am

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The United Nations Working Group is to be commended for putting together yet another highly interesting, relevant and successful set of programs for its 2018 Forum on Business and Human Rights (and here). [read post]

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Part 17 Russian SWFs--Reimaging the State in the Global Sphere: An Inventory of Sovereign Wealth Funds as Regulator and Participant in Global Markets

1 Mar 2014, 8:31 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]

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From the Conference Board: Embedding Sustainability Issues in Corporate Boards

3 Aug 2016, 1:39 pm

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Ruminations 83(2) (On Systems): Looking Back on 2018 in Epigrams and Aphorisms

28 Dec 2018, 6:29 am

(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]

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Ruminations 83(1): Looking Back on 2018 in Epigrams and Aphorisms

27 Dec 2018, 12:15 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]

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Part 8 (Important Thought of Three Represents)--On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

14 Sep 2015, 4:29 am

(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]

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