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23 Aug 2016, 5:29 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Philip G. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 3:57 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has, for a long time now, put forward its Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (2011) as a societal framework for the management of the behaviors of enterprises the operations of which cross borders. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 7:31 pm
(From Adam Fisher, Skipping Stones, Genkaku-Again, May 25, 2009) The cultural importance of veiling the underlying presumptions and mechanics of actions and beliefs-- of seeing reality and of being satisfied to follow instructions that are bound up in a reality that must neither be seen nor questioned--is very strong. [read post]
19 Aug 2023, 3:13 pm
Conference: Governance of Social Listening in the Context of Serious Health Threats Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong Remarks: Social Listening and Infodemic—An Epidemiology for the Body Politic Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) W. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 2:40 pm
Taylor, Professor of Law, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law—The Unsettled State of Compelled Corporate Disclosure Regulation After the Conflict Mineral Rule Cases Virginia Harper Ho, Associate Professor of Law, Kansas University School of Law—“Comply or Explain” and the Future of Nonfinancial Reporting James Coburn, Senior Manager, Investor Programs, Ceres—Climate Risk and Sustainability Disclosure … [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 7:03 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)At least since the Second World War American elites, as successors to and in concert with their Western European comrades, have sought to control the conversation about democracy, democratic legitimacy, and the appropriate forms within which states might structure their internal governance, especially when it relates to the ease with which Euro-American elites might penetrate these subordinate states. [read post]
25 Aug 2013, 1:44 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]
9 Apr 2015, 3:52 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The move toward a global economic order, sitting atop and within the traditional system of states, one grounded on free movement of capital and investment, and constructed through a complex web of inter-state bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements that have created a network of customary norms, has produced conflict and contradiction. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 2:32 pm
Leung Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, Faculties of Law & Medicine, The University of Hong Kong Dr Marcelo Thompson &Prof Felix Chan Law & Technology Centre, Department of Computer Science & Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong “Social Listening” Day 1 Morning Session 22 Aug (Tue) 09:30-12:45 (HKT) Prof Larry Catá Backer W. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 7:24 pm
(Rebecca Horne, In The Triangle 1973-74, Tate Modern, London pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)The great transformation of institutional preconceptions of the borderlands of the performance of relations between individuals,. and the management of sex, only most recently on display during the confirmation hearings of now Justice Kavanaugh, have for years now passionately divided the membership of the American Law Society as it continue to consider the extent… [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 8:33 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) On August 11, 2014, the President of the Human Rights Council, Baudelaire Ndong Ella, appointed the members of the Human Rights Council's "independent international commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law" in the area that the Human Rights Council describes as "the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,… [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 7:02 am
Larry Catá Backer W. [read post]
13 May 2016, 7:55 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)In 2012, the American Law Institute (in which I am a member), agreed to launch a revision of its famous and quite influential Model Penal Code to focus specifically on rising issues of "sexual assault and related offenses. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 7:06 pm
For the last several months I have been sharing sneak peeks of a book to be published in early 2021: Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems': Essays from the Year that Transformed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (June 2019 – June 2020) (Little Sir Press). [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 3:47 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]
27 Jun 2024, 7:56 am
Pix credit hereI 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]
23 Nov 2017, 7:55 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)A question that emerged during the course of the recently concluded Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress (here, here and here) the speakers wondered, collectively, about the extent and character of the evolution of CPC thinking, and the CPC Basic Line, with respect to Socialist Rule of Law and Socialist Constitutionalism. [read post]
14 May 2015, 7:04 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Sexual Assault has been much in the news in the United States. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 8:01 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]
4 Oct 2015, 9:08 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]
