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3 Sep 2016, 8:18 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In 2014, the UN Human Rights Council established an open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, and mandated the working group to “elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 8:18 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Someone recently wrote me from abroad with a set of questions relating to the recent decision by the President not to certify that Iran was complying with all terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) (here). [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 7:03 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) The issue of voting reform in Hong Kong has produced a lively debate about the nature of the relations between the governments in Beijing and Hong Kong and the nature of the political system and the possibilities of political reform in Hong Kong. [read post]
19 Sep 2015, 7:38 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]
23 Jun 2024, 1:24 pm
I am posting and providing brief reflections on the essays that make up the excellent new online symposium organized by the marvelous Caroline Omari Lichuma and Lucas Roorda and appearing on the blog site of the Business and Human Rights Law Journal. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 9:04 am
‘Un Somaro Piumato’--Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentalities: State Owned Enterprises and State-Owner Liability in the Post-Global Larry Catá Backer[1] Abstract: Under what circumstances might a state be subject to liability for the conduct of its state owned enterprises (SOEs)? [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 6:56 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]
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]
12 Jan 2021, 11:53 am
Larry Catá Backer[1] This paper is an initial of an examination of the entanglement between legal systems and data driven social credit systems. [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]
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]
20 Sep 2015, 4:48 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]
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]
12 Sep 2015, 7:24 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]
3 Dec 2014, 12:36 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)Whether binding or not, the establishment of a single interpretive source for application of business and human rights standards in actual disputes would provide a means of developing interpretive coherence (from the perspective of international law and standards that may be transposed into domestic law and that may apply in any case as social norm to the transnational operation of business) that would… [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]
