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23 Jul 2013, 2:48 am by Brian Tamanaha
Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre (S&M) have created a sensation with the release of their new study purporting to show that a law degree has a value of $1,000,000. [read post]
21 Jun 2015, 7:59 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)I have been invited to participate in a Workshop on a Treaty on Business and Human Rights, hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, organized by the Autónoma and the Fakulteta za državne in evropske študije and convened by Jernej Letnar Černič and Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 8:35 am
I am happy to announce the publication of an article, "The Emerging Normative Structures of Transnational Law: Non-State Enterprises in Polycentric Asymmetric Global Orders," that appears in the B.Y.U. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 6:14 am
 The opinion goes on to explain thatPlaypen needed the anonymity Tor provides because it was `dedicated to the advertisement and distribution of child pornography, [and] the discussion of matters pertinent to child sexual abuse. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 1:03 pm
A subsidiary discussion has been  focused on the effects of polycentircity on governance coherence, harmonization and dissonance  and the cumulative effect of these new governance frameworks on the traditional effectiveness of domestic legal orders to regulate individuals, entities and activities within their borders.This post includes the transcript of a conversation with Keren Wang, a PhD candidate at Penn State (Communication Arts and Sciences, School of Liberal Arts) about… [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 7:02 am
A 2004 study on “The Multicultural Self” brought him back to language and semiotics, especially when functioning several years as ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ at the Penn State University, Carlisle Law School, establishing there the “Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics”. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 5:14 pm
  The essay considers the transformations in societal organization exposed during the first shocks of the COVID-19 pandemics and what it suggests for the "new normal" going forward (there is no going back, no matter how strong the nostalgia for that past). [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Wrestling with Religious Diversity, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
1 Jan 2013, 1:27 pm by Larry Catá Backer
I recently posted about the International Conference on “Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Perspectives from China and India” hosted by Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, which took place  on 29-30 November 2012. [read post]
20 Aug 2017, 6:37 pm
  The specifics of the law didn't matter all that much, but the way that a social organism could embrace one set of rules over another, or upend its rules in favor of another, was far more interesting. [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 8:46 am
(Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Camnada, CPC to hold key session on rule of law, July 30, 2014)This post includes the transcript of a conversation with Keren Wang, a PhD candidate at Penn State (Communication Arts and Sciences, School of Liberal Arts) and my co-author, about the recent strong movement at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party toward the institutionalization of rule of law systems with Chinese characteristics, including the petitioning system or… [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 6:42 am by Larry Catá Backer
(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]
3 Dec 2021, 8:19 am
 It was my great delight to be able to present a paper, The Algorithmic Law of Business and Human Rights: Constructing a Private Transnational Law of Ratings, Social Credit, and Accountability Measures authored together with Matthew McQuilla (Penn State SIA MIA 2021) at the Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium 2 December 2021.The paper suggests the consequences of the iconoclasm of emerging principles of algorithmic governance--the move from law as an exogenous force to a… [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:45 pm
I am happy to announce the publication of an article, "Shaping a Global Law for Business Enterprises: Framing Principles and the Promise of a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights," that appears in the North Carolina Journal of International Law 42(2): 417-504 (2016).The introduction follows; comments and engagement always welcome. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 7:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
The Administration’s Substantive Position The administration’s view of this matter has a number of subsidiary components, each of which warrants brief explication. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 5:49 pm by Peter Tillers
He has been quoted in national news outlets hundreds of times, and appears regularly on national broadcast media on matters ranging from complex litigation to constitutional law to criminal justice. [read post]