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8 Feb 2015, 12:49 pm
(Pix (c) Larry catá Backer 2015)Sometimes videos serve as a more useful means of introducing a subject or provoking discussion than lots and lots of words (though those inevitably follow). [read post]
8 Feb 2015, 11:38 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The folks at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre have recently announced the distribution of their Corporate Legal Accountability Annual Briefing. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 8:40 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) For that Symposium I will be presenting a paper entitled, Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones.The abstract follows.The POWERPOINT may be accessed HEREThe paper may be accessed HERE.Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones Larry Catá Backer Abstract: This paper considers the evolution of governance standards for determining the extent of an… [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 8:24 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Professor James Stewart, of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia, has produced a valuable on line symposium: Business and Human Rights: Next Steps. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 8:11 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)I have been writing about the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (the Government Pension Fund Global) (See here and here and here). [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 8:08 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been considering the systemic aspects of this emerging structures of "law", that now include both traditional state produced law and governance rules produced by non-state actors. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 4:28 am
Next, we present Crafting a Theory of Socialist Democracy For China in the 21st Century: Considering Hu Angang’s (胡鞍钢) Theory of Collective Presidency in the Context of the Emerging Chinese Constitutional State, by Larry Catá Backer. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 1:12 pm
I am happy to pass along the Conference Report of the 9th Annual meeting of the European China Law Studies Association, held last November in Hong Kong. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 8:27 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The general offices of the Central Party and State Council recently issued a directive calling for the strengthening of civic education in Chinese universities along the ideological lines specified through the Chinese Communist Party. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 12:52 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The Collège des Bernardins in Paris offers a rich intellectual life for those lucky enough be be able to participate. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 7:48 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The legal status of constitutional preambles continues to generate substantial interest, especially in states whose constitutional orders are experiencing periods of vibrant development. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 7:53 pm
(Larry Catá Backer, Democracy Part XIX: Electoral Legitimacy in Honduras and Afghanistan, Law at the End of the Day (Nov. 29, 2009)).This basic, elections-based premise of constitutionalist legitimacy has been questioned and criticized. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 8:33 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)Frank Ravitch has produced one of the most interesting approaches to the study of the legal interaction of law and religion within the U.S: constitutional system. [read post]
10 Jan 2015, 8:26 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The recent killings in France--one producing more public response and angst than the other--have again exposed some perhaps substantial contradictions in Western culture, politics, law and governance. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 7:36 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) __________Critical Global Business Issues SymposiumJoin Leading Experts in Practice and the Academyfor a Symposium February 6-7, 2015You are cordially invited to the 2015 Symposium sponsored by the Center for Global Law and Policy and the Journal of International Law at Santa Clara University School of Law.The symposium is on "Critical Global Business Issues: When Theory Meets Practice". [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 7:09 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been posting about the consequences of the December 2014 announcement of movements toward the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 5:36 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The folks over at Opinio Juris were kind to invite me to guest post recently. [read post]
3 Jan 2015, 5:46 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) For the last three years I have written of the annual letter of the Cuban Council of the High Priests of Ifá (Consejo Cubano De Sacerdotes Mayores De Ifá), the practitioners of traditional religion brought over from West Africa with the slave trade and now naturalized as a powerful indigenous religion throughout the Caribbean and growing in the United States. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 6:48 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The theme this year is "Legal education at th Crossroads. [read post]
31 Dec 2014, 2:58 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have noted in earlier posts that a significant problem of implementation for the Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights has been the ambiguity of the state duty to protect human rights. [read post]
