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[Online lecture] “You can’t stop the signal”: From the past to the future of digitally mediated sustainability due diligence?" (8 April 2024) 1630 CEST Asser Institute Spring Academy

7 Apr 2024, 9:19 am

I was delighted to have been invited to participate in the Asser Institute: Center for International and European Law & University of Amsterdam Law School-[Spring Academy] Technologies of sustainability due diligence: Digital tools and global value chain regulations which takes place in The Hague, Netherlands from 8-12 April 2024. [read post]

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Discussion Draft Posted for Comment: "Non-Carbon Based Autonomous (A.I. and Predictive) Intelligence and the Human Condition--An Encounter with Jan M. Broekman, Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023)"

17 Oct 2023, 3:38 pm

Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law and International Affairs Pennsylvania State University 239 Lewis Katz Building, University Park, PA 16802 1.814.863.3640 (direct) lcb11@psu.edu Abstract: Humans create but do not regulate generative systems of data based programs (so-called “artificial” intelligence (“A.I.) and generative predictive analytics and its models. [read post]

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"Inside the Cage of the System (制度的笼子里): Standards Setting, National Security Values, Tech Platforms, Regulation, and the Central Contradiction of Legality in the Current Historical Era"--Text of Remarks Delivered at Conference: Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong: The Domain of Standards Setting (University of Hong Kong; 25 August 2023)

23 Aug 2023, 7:45 pm

Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law and International Affairs; Pennsylvania State University | 239 Lewis Katz Building, University Park, PA 16802 1.814.863.3640 (direct) || lcb11@psu.edu First I want to thank Marcelo Thompson, Han Zhu, and Dean Fu Hualing, and all those who organized this workshop. [read post]

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Revised Draft Posted: "Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe"

14 May 2023, 6:56 pm

Pix Credit Audience Chamber Piazza della Signoria Apartments of the Priors c. 1543 In the United States at least, there has been an increasing worry about the state of U.S. relations (economic and political) with Latin American states. [read post]

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New Discussion Draft Posted: "Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe"

31 Jan 2023, 2:38 pm

Pix Credit here I take this opportunity to let people know that I have posted a new discussion draft, "Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe. [read post]

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Circulating Discussion Draft: "Legal Semiotics, Globalization and Governance"

8 Jan 2023, 7:35 am

Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law and International Affairs Pennsylvania State University | 239 Lewis Katz Building, University Park, PA 16802 1.814.863.3640 (direct) || lcb11@psu.edu ABSTRACT: When US and Chinese leaders refer to human rights, they invoke entirely different conceptions. [read post]

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Announcing Future Publication of "Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: From Due Diligence Standards to New Legal Norms"

2 Jan 2023, 9:08 am

Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International AffairsClaire Methven O’Brien – University of Dundee, Lecturer in Law; Danish Institute for Human Rights, Senior ResearcherContributors Eric R. [read post]

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Part 9 Reflections on Völkerrechtsblog Online Symposium: "Framing Business & Human Rights?": Larry Catá Backer, "Beyond the Ritual of Treaties as Gestures: Effectively Closing the Governance Gap in the Area of Business and Human Rights with a Framework Treaty"

29 Jun 2022, 12:41 pm

It is hosted by Völkerrechtsblog and brilliantly co-organized by Justine Batura (Völkerrechtsblog), Anna Sophia Tiedeke (Völkerrechtsblog) and Michael Riegner (University of Erfurt; co-founder of the Völkerrechtsblog), who will feature as guest editor of the Symposium. [read post]

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Video Recording of Event: "Natural Law and the US Constitutional Order" (Penn State Law Federalist Society 12 April 2022) and Edited Transcript of My Remarks "On the ‘Natural’ in Natural Law--From Aspiration to Signification and Back Again"

13 Apr 2022, 5:36 pm

Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar Professor of Law and International Affairs Acting University Ombudsperson (from October 2021) University Ombudsperson Elect Pennsylvania State University | 239 Lewis Katz Building, University Park, PA 16802 1.814.863.3640 (direct) || lcb11@psu.edu I appreciate the turnout for an event that by its title would no longer create the buzz and excitement that it might have in the 17thcentury, much less the 13th. [read post]

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Draft Essay Posted: "Robert Cover and International Law--Narrative Nudges and Nomadic Nomos"

20 Feb 2022, 4:38 am

Dado, La Grande Ferme--Homage à Bernard Réquichot (1962-3); CentrePompidou It was my great honor to have been asked to participate in the brilliant Conference "The Life and Work of Robert M. [read post]

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Now Available: Essays on Contemporary China: Heartland, Periphery, and Silk Roads in Volume 16 Issue 1 "Emancipating the Mind: Bulletin of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics"

24 Jan 2022, 6:04 pm

I am delighted to announce that the essays in Volume 16(1) of Emancipating the Mind: Bulletin of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics (Summer 2021) (ISSN 2689-0283 (Print); 2689-0291 (Online); ISBN 978-1-949943-06-1) are now available.This issue includes essays on Contemporary China--Heartland, Periphery, and Silk Roads. [read post]

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Discussion Draft Posted: "The Communist Party of China as Polity: The Party-State and the Chinese Constitutional Order "

8 Nov 2021, 8:26 am

Pix Credit HERE Sometimes it is important to take a step back and reconsider the basics. [read post]

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Compassionate-release, the First Step Act, and jurors on social media

5 Nov 2021, 1:58 pm by Ellena Erskine

Eshelman v. [read post]

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"Robert M. Cover and International Law--Narrative, Nudges, and Nomadic Nomos"--Remarks at the Conference "The Life and Work of Robert M. Cover" Touro College Law Center

5 Oct 2021, 8:21 am

Professor of Law & Director of Clinical Legal Education, UC Davis School of Law--Robert Cover as Critical Race Theorist Mark Graber, University System of Maryland Regents Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law & Sandford V. [read post]

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Just Posted Discussion Draft: "‘Un Somaro Piumato’--Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentalities: State Owned Enterprises and State-Owner Liability in the Post-Global"

1 Jul 2021, 9:04 am

Pix Credit OperaCanada I am delighted to share for comment the pre-publication discussion draft of a contribution I am working on. [read post]

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Covid Case of the Week - Payne v. Woods Services - Pennsylvania Federal Judge Finds Positive Covid Diagnosis is a "Serious Health Condition" Pursuant to FMLA but Is Not Automatically a "Disability" Under the ADA

24 Apr 2021, 6:07 am by Pennsylvania Employment Lawyer

" Eshelman v. [read post]

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Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Addressing the Issues of Debt, Dispute Resolution, and Transparency An online conference | 23-25 February 2021

24 Feb 2021, 9:53 am

Victor V. [read post]