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Now Available: Video Recording of Workshop-Conference: "The Current State and Future Trajectories of Human Rights Due Diligence Laws" (Virtual--6 September 2023)

8 Sep 2023, 6:09 am

The video recording are available in two parts:Morning Session Afternoon Session Pix credit hereOn 6 September 2023 this Workshop-Conference brought together a number of the contributors to the exploration of the critical issues that arise from mandatory human rights due diligence laws to be published in book The current state and future trajectories of human rights due diligence laws: New Legal Norms on Human Rights Due Diligence (Larry Catá Backer and… [read post]

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Summary and PPT of my Presentation: "The Just Transitions of Risk—Human Rights, Sustainability and the ESG Wars" to be Given at the Just Transitions Conference (University of Dundee; 7 September 2023)

4 Sep 2023, 10:25 am

Out panel, "Just Transition and Business – Chair Claire O'Brien, University of Dundee) includes a number of marvelous speakers:• Tara Van Ho -Without Reforming the Corporate Purpose, All Of This Is Pointless• Alexandra R Harrington – Multisectoral Just Transitions to a Low Carbon Economy in a Post-Pandemic World• Caroline Lichuma – The Vernacularization of the Just Transition Concept: A Role for National Action Plans on Business and Human… [read post]

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Workshop-Conference: "The Current State and Future Trajectories of Human Rights Due Diligence Laws" (Virtual--6 September 2023)--Workshop and Registration Information

3 Sep 2023, 8:01 am

This Workshop-Conference brings together a number of the contributors to the exploration of the critical issues that arise from mandatory human rights due diligence laws to be published in book The current state and future trajectories of human rights due diligence laws: New Legal Norms on Human Rights Due Diligence (Larry Catá Backer and Claire Methven O’Bren (eds); Routledge, forthcoming 2024). [read post]

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European Chinese Law Research Hub: Company Law Amendments (Fang Ma), The Accuracy of Social Credit Information Hannah Klöber), SOEs Going Global (Larry Catá Backer)

31 Aug 2023, 4:43 am

" Larry Catá Backer sheds some much needed light on these institutions.The three work nicely together. [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

WongCenter for Chinese Law; University of Hong Kong; 25 August 2023) REMARKS: 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 EraLarry Catá Backer (白轲) W. [read post]

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"Social Listening and Infodemic—An Epidemiology for the Body Politic": Text of Remarks Delivered at Conference: Governance of Social Listening in the Context of Serious Health Threats (University of Hong Kong, 22 August 2023)

19 Aug 2023, 3:13 pm

Conference: Governance of Social Listening in the Context of Serious Health Threats Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong Remarks: Social Listening and Infodemic—An Epidemiology for the Body Politic Larry Catá Backer (白轲) W. [read post]

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Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats [嚴重健康威脅下「社交監聽」的管治模式研討會]

14 Aug 2023, 2:32 pm

Leung Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, Faculties of Law & Medicine, The University of Hong Kong Dr Marcelo Thompson &Prof Felix Chan Law & Technology Centre, Department of Computer Science & Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong “Social Listening” Day 1 Morning Session 22 Aug (Tue) 09:30-12:45 (HKT) Prof Larry Catá Backer W. [read post]

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Just Published: Gulan Media Exclusive--Interview Discussing Challenges to Democracy, Cultural Responsibilities, and Constitutional Law in Kurdistan

13 Aug 2023, 8:02 am

Pix Credit ©Larry Catá Backer 2019 (azulejo edging tiles 16th cent. [read post]

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Annuncement Upcoming Event: "Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong: The Domain of Standards Setting" 25 August 2023 University of Hong Kong

11 Aug 2023, 1:49 pm

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Now Available: (Frank Fleerackers (ed)) "The Rearguard of Subjectivity On Legal Semiotics – Festschrift in Honour of Jan M. Broekman" (Springer, 2023)

6 Aug 2023, 6:45 am

Table of contents (15 chapters) Front Matter Pages i-x PDF The Efficient Jurist as a Semiotician: A Dialogue with Jan Broekman and… [read post]

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Call for Papers: "Sustainable Finance: between hard law, soft law and corporate governance," 6-8 May 2024 University of Southern Denmark

24 Jul 2023, 9:01 am

Pix Credit © Larry Catá Backer (2018) I am delighted to pass along an announcement of a Call for Papers for a Conference on "Sustainable Finance: between hard law, soft law and corporate governance," to be held 6-8 May 2024 at the University of Southern Denmark. [read post]

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The Emerging (Sanctions Fueled) Face of the Transnational Regulation of the Human Rights Effects of Economic Activity: The CECC Hearing on "Corporate Complicity: Subsidizing the PRC’s Human Rights Violations"

10 Jul 2023, 2:28 pm

Pix Credit Larry Catá Backer ©2023 (Narrative Reliefs Angkor Wat 12th c (Berlin) For at least a century, the United States has assumed the role of leadership core the leading forces of state vanguardism, tasked with ensuring progress toward the perfection of a specific way of seeing the world and remaking all of its social relations in its image. [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

Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe Larry Catá Backer (白轲)[1] Abstract: The Chinese state owned enterprise (CSOE) presents an anomaly in the operation of the well-ordered construction of a self-referencing and closed system of liberal democratic internationalism, especially as that system touches on business responsibilities under national and international human… [read post]

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Accepting Pre-Publication Orders: Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (Available November 2023)

27 Apr 2023, 5:52 pm

Contributors include: José Manuel Aroso Linhares, Larry Catá Backer, Kristian Bankov, Martin Belov, Patrícia Branco, John Brigham, Angela Condello, Marcel Danesi, Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati, Peter Goodrich, Dariusz J. [read post]

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Coding Orthodoxy; Automated Law; and Quality Control in AI--CAIDP (Center for AI and Digital Policy): OPEN AI (FTC 2023)

22 Mar 2023, 2:58 am

©Larry Catá Backer; Pieter Bruegel, The Tower of Babel 1563 (Vienna Arthistorical Museum) The issue of the social relations between humans and the virtual spaces they inhabit--which are populated by both human dependent and, increasingly by self-learning programs that have acquired a certain amount of autonomy from their coders--have begun to capture the imagination of social collectives. [read post]

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Part 2 (The Meaning of Text and the Performative Politics of Commentary): Seeking Input on Project--Commentary on the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights

3 Mar 2023, 6:55 pm

Pix Credit here At the invitation of my publisher I have been working on the production of a comprehensive commentary of the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. [read post]

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CfA International Conference--Combatting Gender Based Violence (Lille University)--Submission by 15 April 2023

1 Mar 2023, 10:22 am

Pix ©Larry Catá Backer, Peter Bruegel, Massacre of the Innocents (copy after 1575); Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum) I am happy to circulate the following announcement:INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - LILLE UNIVERSITYCombating Gender-based Violencehttps://crdp.univ-lille.fr/evenement/gender-equityPlease find attached the call for abstracts for three panels Working language English only:Panel 1 - Culture, Religion and Gender-based violence… [read post]

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"Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentalities" for Book Launch for "The Regulation of State-controlled enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination"--UCL 10 February 2023

10 Feb 2023, 1:12 am

(About the Book)Those participating include: Dr Alessandro Spano, Lecturer in Chinese Law and Co-Director, UCL China Centre (Chair); Prof Leila Choukroune, Professor of International Law and Director of the University of Portsmouth Thematic Area in Democratic Citizenship (Co-Chair);Prof Larry Catá Backer, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Mr Ji Ma, Research Associate, China, Law and Development Project at Oxford University;Prof Julien… [read post]

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New law book series « Gender, Justice, and Legal Feminism » Now Accepting Proposals

2 Feb 2023, 6:36 pm

Pix Credit © Larry Catá Backer; Max Ernst, Logique sans peine (1966); Vienna Freud Museum Anne Wagner (Liile) and Angela Condello (Messina) have announced the launch of a new law book series «Gender, Justice, and Legal Feminism » for Springer. [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

Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe Larry Catá Backer (白轲)[1] Abstract: The Chinese state owned enterprise (CSOE) presents an anomaly in the operation of the well-ordered construction of a self-referencing and closed system of liberal democratic internationalism, especially as that system touches on business responsibilities under national and… [read post]

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