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Elements of Law 3.0 Notes of Readings: II-B (Ordering Government Through Law: Constitutions, Statutes, Treaties, Regulations, Judicial Decisions, and Other Sources)
15 Sep 2013, 6:53 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]
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Part 3; The U.S. National Contact Point--Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization
4 Feb 2013, 7:08 pm by Larry Catá Backer
 (Pix Source HERE)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
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Summary of My Presentation, "The Privatization of Governance: Emerging Trends and Actors," for Conference: New International Trade and Rules Between Globalization and Anti-Globalization
29 Apr 2017, 6:34 pm
Larry Catá Backer  Globalization has proven to be a double-edged sword. [read post]
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Comparative Analysis From Cuba CounterPoints: (1) From Cuba, Trump: Reality Show or Real Politik?; (2) November 26, 2:13am: A Testimony and (3) U.S. Cuban Policy After Obama
2 Dec 2016, 7:58 am
(Cover Image by Gilberto Conill. [read post]
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Presentation at Western Ontario Law School's Mining Finance and Law Speaker Series: "The Responsibilities of Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Financial Institutions to Respect Human Rights: The Example of the Extractives Sector Financing"
30 Mar 2017, 9:44 am
Financial Sector Responsibility for Human Rights Conduct of Borrowers: Lessons from the Extractives Sector The Responsibilities of Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Financial Institutions to Respect Human Rights: The Example of the Extractives Sector Financing (March 2017) Larry Catá Backer W. [read post]
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Symposium on Business and Human Rights (BHR) Regulatory Initiatives Outside Europe: Part 12: Pradeep Narayanan, Dheeraj, and Jhumki Dutta, "Business Responsibility Reporting in India – Can it go Beyond the Global North Gaze?"
26 Jun 2024, 10:43 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]
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2015 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights--Day 3 Sessions: State Owned Enterprises, Supply Chains, and Overarching Trends and Challenges
18 Nov 2015, 9:02 am
The first day of the 2015 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights offered a dual track palette of offerings that were meant to engage the broad spectrum of participants in attendance. [read post]
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Part 2 (The Cage of Ideology)--On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory
20 Feb 2015, 8:30 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]
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On Developments in the Legality and Application of Laojiao (The system of administrative detentions, re-education through labor, or “劳动教养”) in China
25 Jul 2013, 5:18 pm by Larry Catá Backer
  Backer, Larry Catá and Wang, Keren, State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate Rule of Law Constitutional System in China: The Example of Laojiao and Shuanggui (June 1, 2013). [read post]
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Should Financial Institutions Have Obligations to Manage the Human Rights Impacts of their Clients?: "Final Statement Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Milieudefensie - Rabobank"
21 Jan 2016, 5:05 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Over the last half decade, at least, and in international circles, the relationships between banks and their borrowers has proven a fertile doorway through which to privatize, in an efficient manner, the societal obligations of enterprises to respect human rights under the framework memorialized by public international actors in the UN Guiding Principles, and given nonbinding remedial mechanism through the OECD's… [read post]
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Announcing 10th Anniversary Project of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights: “Business and human rights: towards a decade of global implementation”
9 Jun 2020, 10:58 am
Pix © Larry Catá Backer Cappy Thopmpson "Study for i Image Us as a Holy Family Engaging in the Great Work of Gathering the Light, Tacoma Museum 2006The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has recently announced the commencement of a major project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
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Text of Remarks--"The Visualization of Text and the Textualization of Image: Factual Narratives in and as Legal Discourse" -- Prepared for the 25th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (Legal Evidence on the Age of Techno-Societies and Visual Jurisprudence)
7 May 2025, 7:24 pm
  25th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2025) Legal Evidence in the Age of Techno-Societies and REMARKS Delivered 9 May 2025   The visualization of Textand the Textualization of Image: Factual Narratives in and as Legal Discourse Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) W. [read post]
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Building New Era Thought--An Annotation of the English Translation of Xi Jinping's Address on the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up, Beijing 18 December 2018
16 Jan 2020, 8:12 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)To the ends of advancing the study of New Era Thought along more useful lines, the Coalition for Peace and Ethics has undertaken a study of Chinese New Era Thought, of which these posts form a part. [read post]
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The Development of Chinese Constitutionalism in the "New Era": The Emerging Ideal and Practice of Socialist Constitutionalism after the 19th CPC Congress
8 Nov 2017, 5:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) On the eve of the November 2017 meeting between the leaders of the United States and China, "John F. [read post]
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Coalition for Peace & Ethics: Input Statement for OHCHR UNGP Helpdesk Initiative
25 Jun 2024, 6:20 pm
  Pix Credit here    Input for Consideration by the OHCHR on the Establishment and Operation of a Help Desk on Business and Human Rights Coalition for Peace & Ethics Larry Catá Backer 25 June 2024 To OHCHR Business and Human Rights Sections I. [read post]
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“All roads to remedy”: Reflections on 2017 Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (A/72/162)
8 Oct 2017, 2:01 pm
 (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Working Paper 10/1 (October 2017)Reflections onthe 2017 “Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights andtransnational corporations and other business enterprises” (A/72/162; 18 July2017)Larry Catá BackerAbstract: The Working Group for Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises 2017 Report to the U.N. [read post]
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Cuba Beyond the Cusp of Change (Day 4a): Reflections on a Week Long Penn State Graduate Course in Cuba
13 Mar 2017, 8:41 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)It is my great privilege to have been encouraged to design and hold a week long embedded course program through Pennsylvania State University. [read post]
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Refusals to Issue Marriage Licenses to Same Sex Couples on Religious Grounds--An American Constitutional Conundrum and the View From the European Court of Human Rights
1 Sep 2015, 6:07 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The U.S. [read post]
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Text of Online Interview: The States of US-China Relaitons in a Dynamic Global (Re)Ordering
11 Sep 2024, 6:27 am
© Larry Catá Backer, Village new Yiwu, China (September 2024)  I was recently asked to participate interview with a Chinese press organ. [read post]
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International Conference on “The Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics in Transition”: Abstracts of Conference Papers
26 Jun 2013, 7:32 pm by Larry Catá Backer
The City University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Chinese Law hosted an International Conference on “The Rule of Law With Chinese Characteristics in Transition” held 5-7 June 2013 at the Connie Fan Multi-Media Conference Room, 4/F Chen Yick-Chi Building on the campus of CUHK. [read post]
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