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Understanding Social Credit as Structure and Method With Global Dimension: Comments on Flora Sapio ("The Many Facets of Social Credit)" and Mara Hvistendahl ("Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking")
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]
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Final Reflections ("Suggestions for Moving Forward to the 7th UN Forum"): United Nations OHCHR Forum for Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017)
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]
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Reflections Day 3 ("'Connecting the dots' and 'calls for action'" From Estates General to Governance Trade Fair and Back Again): United Nations OHCHR Forum for Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017)
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]
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Reflections Day 2 ("What is to be Done?"): United Nations OHCHR Forum for Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017)
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]
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The (In)visible State: Congressional-Executive Commission on China "Chairs Urge Robust Use of Global Magnitsky Tools to Punish Human Rights Violators in China"
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]
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Snapshot Presentation "Embedding Human Rights Due Diligence in the University"--at the United Nations OHCHR Forum for Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017)
28 Nov 2017, 8:48 am
I made a snapshot presentation this afternoon at the UN Forum for Business and Human Rights. [read post]
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"The (In)Visible Corporation: Asset Partitioning and Corporate Personality for an Emerging Age"-- PPT of Presentation at the International Symposium on the Corporation in a Changing World; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
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]
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Chinese Constitutionalism After the 19th CPC Congress: Flora Sapio on "Chinese Constitutionalism in Work Reports to the CCP Congress 1949 - 2012"
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]
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白 轲 闭幕致辞: 法治和信用国际研讨会结束陈词：社会信用，大数据管理与新机遇，新现实 [Closing Remarks: Social Credit, Big Data Management and Governance—New Possibilities, New Realities; International Symposium on Rule of Law & Social Credit Systems]
22 Nov 2017, 9:42 am
Closing Remarks: Social Credit, Big Data Management and Governance—New Possibilities, New Realities 闭幕致辞:  法治和信用国际研讨会结束陈词：社会信用，大数据管理与新机遇，新现实… [read post]
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International Symposium on the Corporation in a Changing World; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
22 Nov 2017, 9:32 am
The PPT f my own presentation will follow in another post.International Symposium on The Corporation in a Changing World Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law SUFE Law School Commercial Law Center October 21st – 22nd, 2017 Conference Agenda Day One: Oct 21st (Saturday) Opening Ceremony Moderator: Xiaoyan Song, Professor & Acting Vice Dean, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law Speakers:Shaohua Zheng, Professor & Assistant to the President,… [read post]
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"Draft Guidelines on Human Rights and the Environment": Text of Comments Submitted by Larry Catá Backer and Flora Sapio
21 Nov 2017, 6:18 am
 (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)In October 2017 Professor Knox, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, circulated a Draft Guidelines on Human Rights and the Environment for which he is soliciting views (available here in English, French, Spanish). [read post]
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Chinese Constitutionalism: The References to Constitutions in the Reports of the Chinese Communist Party Congresses--A Preliminary Historical View
17 Nov 2017, 5:03 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 raised a very interesting issue that might merit some further initial discussion. [read post]
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The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack: A View From an Independent Journalist in Cuba--"Los grillos contra el imperialismo: El régimen castrista resta importancia a recientes acusaciones de EEUU" [The crickets against imperialism: The Castro regime downplays recent US accusations]
17 Nov 2017, 2:07 pm
__________The crickets against imperialism: The Castro regime downplays recent US accusations Rene Gómez Manzano[Larry Catá Backer trans.] [read post]
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Zhiwei Tong: On "The State Supervision Law Legislation Need Further Improvement" 国家监察立法预案仍须着力完善 English Translation and Original Chinese Version
14 Nov 2017, 10:46 am
See, Larry Catá Backer, Introducing a New Essay Site on Chinese Law by Zhiwei Tong, Law at the End of the Day, Oct. 16, 2010. [read post]
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Zhiwei Tong: "Monitor the Nine Constitutional Issues that Legislation Should Handle Well" [童之伟 监察立法应处理好的九个宪法问题]- Keynote speech at joint seminar of China Constitutional Law Society and Criminal Procedure Law Society [在中国宪法学会和刑诉法学会联合研讨会上的专题发言] 14 Nov. 2017
14 Nov 2017, 10:45 am
See, Larry Catá Backer, Introducing a New Essay Site on Chinese Law by Zhiwei Tong, Law at the End of the Day, Oct. 16, 2010. [read post]
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And on the Other Side of the U.S. Tightening of Cuban Trade and Travel: Cuba Puts Up a Statistically Brave Face and U.S. Companies Continue to Invest in the Face of Revised State Deparment List of Restricted Entities
10 Nov 2017, 8:12 am
(Pix  ©Larry Catá Backer 2017)Even as the new U.S. regulations touching on travel and trade were being announced (see, here), Cuban authorities were ensuring that their narrative was also much in evidence. [read post]
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New Cuba Travel and Trade Regulations Issued--Targeted Shrinkage of the Scope of Normalization Continues
9 Nov 2017, 3:44 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Those interested in the state of relations between the United States and Cuba have been awaiting the issuance of the modifications to the regulations that implement the ancient U.S. trade embargo ever since President Trump announced a change in direction of U.S. [read post]
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The Development of Chinese Constitutionalism in the "New Era": The Emerging Ideal and Practice of Socialist Constitutionalism after the 19th CPC Congress
8 Nov 2017, 5:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017) On the eve of the November 2017 meeting between the leaders of the United States and China, "John F. [read post]
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Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress; Program, Speakers and On Line Materials
3 Nov 2017, 4:21 pm
Participants:Larry Catá Backer, Coalition for Peace & Ethics; W. [read post]
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Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress [3 Nov. 2017 10 AM US East Coast Time Live Streamed]: Opening Statements of Flora Sapio and Larry Catá Backer
2 Nov 2017, 8:49 am
Larry Catá Backer The work of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress was significant, judged even by the standards of past Congresses, There was a sense that its work ought to be ranked at the level of the 3rd Plenum of the 11th CPC Congress. [read post]
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