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27 Jan 2016, 9:15 am
For the Symposium on the Constitution and Economic InequalityCynthia EstlundJoseph Fishkin and William Forbath, in their book-in-progress, have brilliantly exposed and mined a once-powerful, mostly-forgotten vein of constitutional political economic thought: the notion that widely shared economic opportunity, and a broad middle class flanked by neither an underclass nor an oligarchic overclass, are essential foundations of our republican form of government. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 8:45 am
The Criminal Law Amendments suggested by the Justice Verma Committee are synopsised in a two-part guest post by Mrinal Satish and Shwetasree Majumder, who worked with the Committee. [read post]
9 May 2024, 11:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on David Pozen, The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2024).Paul Butler Like most users of illegal drugs, I have never been caught. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 11:53 am
The story of the tree of knowledge and of the expulsion from Paradise, then, can be understood as an explanation of the basis of the societal imperative of human organization--it was the punishment meted out to humans when they sought the knowledge autonomy of the Divine. [read post]
10 Nov 2022, 7:03 am
The 4th, social justice, Republic started with the Great Depression and sought to augment economic unity with societal solidarity grounded in principles of equality, non-discrimination, and social justice. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 6:02 pm
Alex Feerst, one of the great thinkers about Internet content moderation, has a revealing metaphor about the real-world work involved. [read post]
10 Aug 2019, 9:23 am
(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]
4 Jul 2018, 2:05 pm
For some time, and from time to time, I have considering questions touching on the essence of American political ideology as my way of celebrating American Independence Day. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 12:23 pm
I hope civil society organisations and researchers will interrogate the findings further, delve deeper into the core of the societal problem of violence against women and demand better performance and greater accountability from the law enforcement machinery of the State. [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 12:27 pm
While Morocco has made serious strides in many areas and appears to have a populous genuinely desirous of and committed to establishing a societal framework founded upon the rule of law, the Moroccan royal family’s commitment to the sort of independent judiciary necessary to uphold the rule of law has and continues to be lacking in ways that raise serious questions about whether any party that finds itself involved in a legal dispute in which the royal family has an apparent… [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 8:42 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015 )In 2015, Chinese authorities released an initial draft of a Charity Undertakings Law 中华人民共和国慈善事业法（草案）to which Chinese authorities invited commentary. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 6:31 pm
That solidification has crystalized around a reinvigorated internationalist reading of the Two Systems principle that sees in Hong Kong a political and societal culture distinct enough from tat of the rest of the People’s Republic of China to require a permanent state of autonomy, one grounded in and supported by international principles and institutions. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 6:44 am
This poses the difficulty of games in societal organization—for conflict sometimes occurs when the object of the conflict is about the game to be played (and the rules to be observed) rather than about the way that either side is conforming to the rules of a game they both believe they are playing. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 1:14 pm
Witnessing the power of collective efforts to address societal issues, I have sought opportunities to lead and unit [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 8:31 am
We know that misinformation can lead to harm, but we're also wary of attempts to censor it—particularly when censorship is proposed as the only solution to what is nearly always a much deeper societal issue. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 6:37 am
On March 25, the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service published its final report advising Congress, the president and the American people on how to foster an ethos of national service. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 11:38 am
On Tuesday, July 23, Attorney General William Barr delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 8:57 am
And in the process, I also suggested the way in which that political work was an important contributor to the shaping of transnational standards within which globally engaged business could operate with some confidence, not as a hierarchically ordered space (Backer, Larry Catá, Collisions of Societal Constitutions: Hierarchical Power Arrangements and Horizontal Effects in the Management of Human Rights Regimes Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 20(2):805-879 (2013)), but… [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 10:26 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)) Corporate social responsibility, both in its traditional forms and in its current international form as as species of human rights, has become an important issue of corporate governance both in the national and international spheres.But the discourse, and the premises underlying it, are usually based on Western models of corporate governance and the structuring of political states and public order. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 8:26 am
Pix Credit HERE Sometimes it is important to take a step back and reconsider the basics. [read post]
