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Business, Human Rights and Criminal Prosecutions of NGOs

10 Apr 2013, 8:24 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Backer, Larry Catá, Economic Globalization and the Rise of Efficient Systems of Global Private Lawmaking: Wal-Mart as Global Legislator. [read post]

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Announcing "Democracy, Development and Institutions" A Blog Sponsored by the Development Research Center

8 Apr 2013, 3:18 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2'13)Please, click on any of the links below for more information.Welcome DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONS, a blog sponsored by The Development Research Center. [read post]

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Statement of Larry Catá Backer to the U.N. Working Group on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises—Request for Inputs and Suggestions on the 2013 Forum on Business and Human Rights

6 Apr 2013, 6:11 pm by Larry Catá Backer

These are themes I explore more extensively in Larry Catá Backer, “Sovereign Investing and Markets-Based Transnational LegislativePower: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund in Global Markets” (November 18, 2012). [read post]

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Nabih Haddad on the Contradictions of Extraterritoriality and International Approaches to Business and Human Rights

30 Mar 2013, 7:05 pm by Larry Catá Backer

” (Larry Catá Backer, Private Actors and Public Governance Beyond the State: The Multinational Corporation, the Financial Stability Board, and the Global Governance Order, 751 Ind. [read post]

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Ruminations 46--Epigrams on Governance Beyond the Human Condition

30 Mar 2013, 9:22 am by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) The epigrams that follow suggest something beyond the human condition and its expression in self- and communal governance. [read post]

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Presentation to Japan America Society of Pennsylvania--"The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japanese Strategic Diplomacy or Chinese Containment"

19 Mar 2013, 6:21 pm by Larry Catá Backer

The Trans-Pacific Partnership:Japanese Strategic Diplomacy or Chinese Containment Larry Catá BackerW. [read post]

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Michael Komesaroff on Chinese Investments in Afghanistan and the Changing Face of Global Mining

17 Mar 2013, 1:28 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Backer, Larry Catá, Sovereign Investing in Times of Crisis: Global Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds, State Owned Enterprises and the Chinese Experience. [read post]

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Monitoring Corporate Social and Environmental Compliance: Oxfam Behind the Brands Campaign

7 Mar 2013, 7:33 am by Larry Catá Backer

Backer, Larry Catá, Multinational Corporations as Objects and Sources of Transnational Regulation. [read post]

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Review Essay: Hu Angang (胡鞍鋼), China in 2020: A New Type of Superpower

6 Mar 2013, 8:22 am by Larry Catá Backer

.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-8157-9478-2 pp. i-xl; 213) Larry Catá Backer, W. [read post]

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Keren Wang on "Laojiao (劳教) System, Constitution and the Mass Line of the Chinese Communist Party"

5 Mar 2013, 9:25 am by Larry Catá Backer

I have been considering the recent abolition of the system of administrative detentions, re-education through labor (劳动教养), commonly known as laojiao (劳教). [read post]

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KOF Index of Globalization 2013 Released

3 Mar 2013, 11:47 am by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013))I have included the press release below for the KOF Index of Globalization 2013 (without the graphs). [read post]

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Presentation at 2013 Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law & Semiotics VIth Roundtable

2 Mar 2013, 2:37 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012)As part of that seminar, Professor Broekman organizes a wonderful Roundtable on semiotics and the law, featuring distinguished faculty and Penn State's law students. [read post]

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Part 27: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

28 Feb 2013, 7:30 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 27: Summing Up UNDER CONSTRUCTION [read post]

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Part 26: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

28 Feb 2013, 7:27 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 26: Charting the Reality of the Specific Instance Function--Single Country Analysis Countries UNDER CONSTRUCTION [read post]

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Part 25: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

28 Feb 2013, 7:25 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 25: Charting the Reality of the Specific Instance Function--Single Country Analysis Countries Continued UNDER CONSTRUCTION [read post]

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Part 24: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization.

28 Feb 2013, 7:22 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 24: Charting the Reality of the Specific Instance Function--Single Country Analysis Countries UNDER CONSTRUCTION [read post]

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Part 23: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

26 Feb 2013, 8:59 am by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 23: Charting the Reality of the Specific Instance Function--All Countries I was curious whether it would be helpful in considering the work of the US NCP to examine some of the information about the specific instance facility in graphical form. [read post]

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Part 16: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

17 Feb 2013, 12:41 pm by Larry Catá Backer

The obsession with confidentiality, and therefore the extensive suspicion of transparency, ironic given the emphasis on transparency of the MNE Guidelines (see Backer, Larry Catá, Transparency Between Norm, Technique and Property in International Law and Governance--The Example of Corporate Disclosure Regimes and Environmental Impacts, Minnesota Journal of International Law 22:-- (forthcoming 2012)) , the narrowness of the interpretation of its… [read post]

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Part 12: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

13 Feb 2013, 8:03 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 12: The U.S. [read post]

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Part 11: The U.S. National Contact Point: Corporate Social Responsibility Between Nationalism, Internationalism and Private Markets Based Globalization

12 Feb 2013, 5:02 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 11: The U.S. [read post]

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