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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]
29 Sep 2016, 6:52 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Human organization is no stranger to the mania for classification, and the construction of hierarchy and social management on the basis of those classifications. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 5:39 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 7:02 am
Progress and pitfalls of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act"  Symposium on Business and Human Rights (BHR) Regulatory Initiatives Outside Europe: Part 4: Jernej Letnar Černič--"Business and Human Rights in the Western Balkans"Symposium on Business and Human Rights (BHR) Regulatory Initiatives Outside Europe: Part 5: Barnali Choudhury--"BHR Developments in Canada: Targeting Low Hanging Fruit" Symposium on Business and Human Rights (BHR)… [read post]
16 May 2018, 2:28 pm
(Larry Catá Backer, Emasculated Men, Effeminate Law in the United States, Zimbabwe and Malaysia,  Yale Journal of Law & Feminism17(1):1-63 (2005, pp. )1-2).Further thoughts followed here, here, here, here, here, and here. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 3:44 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Human Rights Council Resolution 28/14 established a Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 6:04 pm by Larry Catá Backer
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [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]
12 Oct 2018, 7:48 am
("Le marchand de colifichets", England 1756-58; Musée Ariana, Geneva; pix © Larry Catá Backer)At its 26th session, on 26 June 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 26/9 by which it decided “to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument… [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 8:36 am
They include Law Students and graduates seeking the LL.M. degree at Penn State Law, and graduate students enrolled in the School of International Affairs working under the guidance of Larry Catá Backer and with the assistance of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics. [read post]
27 Sep 2014, 8:10 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)The Atlantic Council provides some useful information on the sometimes slow and convoluted path that is the route toward an alternative to the WTO represented by the TTIP. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 10:13 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi, has written a report on the recent Supreme Court of India case, Reserve Bank of India v. [read post]
29 Dec 2018, 6:59 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]
4 Feb 2020, 7:30 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2020; Utrecht Museum Speelklok)Ratings based data driven frameworks for managing human and institutional behavior are increasingly acquiring an autonomy from the legal and accountability systems they once were thought to serve, and the norms of which were presumed to constrain their utilization. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 6:43 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018; Musée Ariana, porcelain figures Meissen 1725-1730 )Flora Sapio (Comments on the "Zero-Draft"), and I (Making Sausages? [read post]