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28 Aug 2015, 6:31 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The regulation of NGOs in China has tended to be a backwater in the consciousness of Westerners; unless foreign NGOs are the target of regulation. [read post]
18 Jul 2015, 11:57 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Recent reports from our friends at the Conference Board suggest that, especially among large transnational enterprises that may feel the effects of pressure to conform to international business and human rights standards more strongly, U.S. enterprises are more strongly embracing these international business and human rights standards in their formal practices and policies. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 5:39 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
26 May 2021, 8:13 am
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10 Aug 2015, 8:18 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been suggesting the way in which state protection of religion against insult or incitement can contribute significantly to societal norms in which offenses against religion might itself be viewed as enough to insulate people from the legal effects of killing (Ruminations 57: On Hacking Bloggers to Death in Bangladesh and the Price of Insulting Religion). [read post]
22 Oct 2016, 6:45 pm
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2016) One is used to speaking about sovereign wealth funds either as vehicles for the projection of state power into the capital markets of foreign states through acquisition of foreign securities. [read post]
30 Nov 2021, 6:29 pm
Symposium Program HEC ParisJouy-en-JosasDAY 1WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2021Building T – Room 206Joint Event with HEC Data Day5.30 pm– 6.30pmOpening KeynoteThe Automated StateDavid Engstrom (Stanford University)Chair: David Restrepo Amariles (HEC Paris)6.30pm – CocktailDAY 2THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021Building S, Amphi BellonWELCOME AND REGISTRATION8.30 am – 9.00am9.00am – 9.15amIntroductory KeynoteLaw in our SocietyDavid Restrepo Amariles, Associate… [read post]
31 Dec 2018, 1:05 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The year 2018 is ending with the great rifts opened in 2016, and exposed in 2017, now acquiring a greater urgency and show and revealing the power of its consequences. [read post]
20 Jul 2019, 2:52 pm
(Pix this post all © Larry Catá Backer 2019)It is always exciting to engage in the production of nostalgia. [read post]
9 Feb 2014, 12:47 pm
(Pix (C) Larry Catá Backer 2014)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 8:03 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 12: The U.S. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 4:30 pm
Participants:Dale Copeland (University of Virginia)Rohan Mukerjee (London School of Economics)Audrye Wong (University of Southern California)Jack Zhang (University of Kansas)12:30 - 1:30 LunchLunch Briefing: Harboring Global Ambitions: China's Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval BasesSpeaker: Sheng Zhang (AidData)1:30 - 3:00 US-China Relations in the AI Age Moderator: Margaret Hu (William & Mary School of… [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 11:11 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Flora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 7:02 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)China continues to develop its constitutional relationship with its special administrative zones--principally Hong Kong and Macao. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 1:15 pm
The discussion draft may be accessed here: Larry Catá Backer, COVID, Control, and Complicity in Rwanda: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal and Markets Regimes, CPE Working Paper 10/1 (October 20, 2020). [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 8:21 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The Collège des Bernardins in Paris offers a rich intellectual life for those lucky enough be be able to participate. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 6:45 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights was endorsed unanimously in June 2011 by the UN Human Rights Council. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 5:54 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)The nature and application of knowledge production and dissemination It is especially important in the context of global human rights and business where it serves as a critical link between the elaboration of individual rights and institutional obligations, on the one hand, and access to remedies for individuals and communities adversely affected, on the other. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 7:45 am
(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of my Elements of Law and the United States Legal System (ISBN: 978-1-61163-927-8 • e-ISBN: 978-1-61163-984-1).The work made sense as a century of legalization (here and here) and judicialization (here and here) forces more and more people worldwide to bump up against aspects of aspects of the U.S: legal system. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 8:05 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) I have been considering the work of a very few of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council (see, e.g., here, and here).The special procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. [read post]
