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20 Aug 2013, 6:04 pm
(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]
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]
1 Oct 2015, 6:00 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]
2 Dec 2017, 2:56 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
8 Nov 2014, 3:02 pm
”The Background, Preliminary Program and Concept Note follow:(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)BackgroundThe relationship between business and human rights has become an issue that States and businesses worldwide cannot ignore. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 2:09 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Western commentators and academics have begun to focus on Chinese Social Credit. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 8:03 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]
1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)One of the great innovations in international relations in this century has been the continuing erosion of the concept of autonomy of the state as a singular and apex construct of political power. [read post]
29 Sep 2015, 5:40 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]
13 Dec 2018, 7:17 pm
(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]
10 Jul 2015, 12:58 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi, has requested the circulation of the following research report, which he prepared, entitled, Award of Death Sentences and Commutations of Life Imprisonment: Analysis of Statistical Trends in India Based on Prison Statistics for the Years 1998-2013 (2015).The research report is described as a rapid… [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 5:38 am
The Penn State School of International Affairs, Penn State Law, the Coalition for Peace and Ethics and the Network for International Affairs are delighted to sponsor a Roundtable: Coronavirus and International Affairs. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 9:21 am
On 7 January 2016, the Norges Bank has decided to exclude the Chinese company ZTE Corporation, one of the world’s five largest producers of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, from the investment universe of the GPFG. [read post]
20 Jun 2024, 7:46 am
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]
17 Mar 2019, 7:28 pm
(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer 2019)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]
21 Jun 2018, 6:20 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)This post highlights two short essays produced by Shan Gao, a valued member of the research team at the Coalition for Peace and Ethics. [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 11:19 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]