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9 Feb 2018, 8:11 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)In Strategic Disclosure in an Age of Transparency: Cuba as Model for Emerging State-Based Trade and Production Orders I suggested that it is possible to discern an emerging consensus trend in global trade and production. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 8:09 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)It appears to be something of a global trend now, or at least a movement with sufficient repetitions to merit some notice, that governments are becoming more selective in the scope and character of the information they make available and yet increasingly eager to produce transparency in non governmental enterprises and other institutions. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:41 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Disruption may thus be better understood as a means rather than as a thing itself. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 7:44 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)Since at least 1945 there have been significant efforts to produce global consensus on baseline norms through which states, individuals, and collectives could judge the legitimacy of state actors (and recently other transnational actors). [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 12:00 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018; Varadero beachfront)The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack in Cuba is slowly but now quite perceptively shaping the contours of U.S. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 7:31 am
(Larry Catá Backer, Democracy Part XIX: Electoral Legitimacy in Honduras and Afghanistan, Law at the End of the Day (Nov. 29, 2009)). [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 2:27 pm
(Pîx © Larry Catá Backer 2018; Bronze Cowerie Container With Figures Paying Tribute Western Han Dynasty 202 BC - 8 AD; National Museum of China, Beijing ) The Ideal and Practice of Chinese Comprehensive Constitutionalism in the “New Era” Larry Catá Backer[1]Connecticut Journal of International Law 33(2):– (forthcoming 2018) Abstract: The 19th Congress of… [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 8:47 am
The article can be accessed here.The Human Rights Obligations of State-Owned Enterprises: Emerging Conceptual Structures and Principles in National and International Law and Policy Larry Catá Backer Abstract: The distinction between the obligations of public and private entities, and their relation to law, is well known in classical political and legal theory. [read post]
6 Jan 2018, 7:32 am
"Sovereign Wealth Funds, Capacity Building, Development and Governance" Larry Catá BackerWake Forest Law Review 52(4):735-780 (2017)Abstract: Though operating in some form or another for over half a century, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) did not become an object of general attention until the early part of the 21st century when a combination of the need of developed states for investment and the growing acceptability of state investment in private… [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 2:34 pm
"Larry Catá BackerThe China Nonprofit Review, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 273 – 309 (2017)DOI: 10.1163/18765149-12341334); ISSN: 1876-5092 E-ISSN: 1876-5149 Submission version HERE China’s new Charity Law represents the culmination of over a decade of planning for the appropriate development of the productive forces of the charity sector in aid of socialist modernization. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 2:04 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 Havana, Cuba)11. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 3:11 pm
On 4 December 2017 the Office of the President of the United States released its national security strategy going forward, Office of the President of the United States, National Security Strategy of the United States (4 Dec. 2017) (hereafter the "NSS"). [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 2:09 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Western commentators and academics have begun to focus on Chinese Social Credit. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 6:51 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 9:09 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
2 Dec 2017, 2:56 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)One of the great innovations in international relations in this century has been the continuing erosion of the concept of autonomy of the state as a singular and apex construct of political power. [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 8:48 am
I made a snapshot presentation this afternoon at the UN Forum for Business and Human Rights. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 7:27 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)I was delighted to have been given the opportunity to participate a marvelous conference held in late October 2017 at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law SUFE Law School Commercial Law Center. [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]
