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5 Sep 2017, 8:46 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)The IGWG (the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights) will hold its Third session, 23-27 October 2017, in Geneva. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 1:07 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)It was my great pleasure to host a presentation and discussion of Nicholas Roland and Matthew Spaniol's exciting new article--"The Future Multiple," which appears in Foresight, Vol. 17 No. 6 2015, pp. 556-573. [read post]
22 Aug 2013, 6:48 am
(Backer, Larry Catá and Wang, Keren, State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate Rule of Law Constitutional System in China: The Example of Laojiao and Shuanggui (June 1, 2013). [read post]
31 Aug 2019, 9:01 am
.__________ Programme 9:30 Opening and welcome –Frauke Gerlach (Grimme-Institute) 9:45 – 11:15 Social Credit System in China (case study) Chair: Björn AhlEvolution of the Social Credit System: A Public Law Perspective –Yongxi Chen (Hong Kong University)Beyond “Digital Big Brother”: Five things to… [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 7:03 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The remedial pillar of the the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights speaks not just to the use of state based remedial mechanisms, mostly national judicial systems. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 12:33 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)I have written about the ESIL Research Forum: "International Law in Times of Disorder and Contestation;" ESIL Research Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to be held 28 February to 2 March at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 2:30 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The corruption scandal against high officials of FIFA continues to build (see e.g., here). [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 2:01 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)It is my great privilege to have been encouraged to design and hold a week long embedded course program through Pennsylvania State University. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 3:18 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2'13)Please, click on any of the links below for more information.Welcome DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONS, a blog sponsored by The Development Research Center. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 9:23 am
For the ASCE Series' next interview, Larry Catá Backer had the great pleasure of speaking with Dr. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 7:54 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)The effects of the Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack continue ot become clearer. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 10:53 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)The tenuous nature of the raproachment between the United States and Cuba has been taking an unexpected turn over the course of the last several months. [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 12:45 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) --> Human Rights Council Resolution 28/14 established a Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 4:21 pm
PROGRAMMEDay 1: 23 September 2022Introduction (8:55-9.00 am): Ngoc Son Bui (Oxford)Panel 1 (9:00-10.30 am): Chair - Timothy Endicott (Oxford)Larry Catá Backer (Penn State University), Linking People to Governing Institutions: 全过程民主 (Whole Process Democracy) Leninist Political Parties, Socialist Constitutional Democracy… [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 5:50 am
”China’s Social Credit System: Data-Driven Governance for a ‘New Era’by Larry Catá Backer“Social credit redirects the power of data away from markets and strengthens the state’s ability to comprehensively control behavior. [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 8:07 am
The report was authored by Zhu Shaoming, Zhang Aisi, Wang Keren, Shan Gao, Larry Catá Backer, and Flora Sapio. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 6:30 am
_________Editors Professor Anita Ramasastry Professor Michael Santoro Professor Florian Wettstein Associate Professor Surya Deva … [read post]
4 Nov 2024, 8:02 pm
Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria)- Richard Sherwin (New York Law School, USA) – Constitutional Over-Belief: Affective Intensity as a Function of Legitimation- Larry Catá Backer (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Emotive Semiotics in Collective Meaning Making - Signification of Preambular and Extraconstitutional TextsDiscussion 12:00 - 12:30 Coffee break 12:30 - 14:00 Panel III. [read post]
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]
25 Nov 2016, 9:03 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)The indulgence of extremes in politics invariably has a terrible effect--not on the political classes that profit from cultivating these schisms, but on the people on whose bodies these ideologies are etched--in hunger, deprivation, and forced migration. [read post]
