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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]
12 May 2019, 1:24 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)The Working Group on Empire of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics looks to to study and theorize the construction of systems of management and control of human activities, that is of empire in the 21st century. [read post]
21 Mar 2015, 8:27 pm
The paper may be downloaded here.Fractured Territories and Abstracted Terrains: Human Rights Governance Regimes Within and Beyond the State Larry Catá Backer Abstract: Two significant changes in the organization of power became visible after the 1950s. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 10:41 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 Vatican Museum Episodes of the Passion Tournai 14th cent) If the Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack has a defining element, it is the way in which it may substantially affect Cuba's efforts to rejoin the global economic and finance communities it turned its back on in the early 1960s. [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 5:02 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Part 11: The U.S. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 12:40 pm
(Larry Catá Backer, "From Guiding Principles to Interpretive Organizations: Developing a Framework for Applying the UNGPs to Disputes that Institutionalizes the Advocacy Role of Civil Society," in Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning 97-110 (César Rodríguez Garavito, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017) . [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 9:46 pm
(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)I am happy to announce that Carolina Academic will soon be publishing my text, tentatively titled Elements of the Law and Legal Systems of the United States. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 12:09 pm
(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer 2017; view of Havana Harbor from Regla)One of the great feats of globalization was its transposition of the notion of "mutually assured destruction" from the military to the economic sector. [read post]
14 Jan 2020, 5:52 pm
‘By Dred Things I am Compelled’:[1] China and the Challenge to International Human Rights Law and Policy Larry Catá Backer[2]Abstract: The rise of China as a global power has expanded beyond the realm of economic to international human rights law and policy. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 5:32 pm
., 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]
1 Apr 2016, 1:13 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)It was my great privilege to participate in the ASIL Business and Human Rights Roundtable, 'International Human Rights Law and Business: Evaluating the Impact of UNGPs’. [read post]
31 Aug 2013, 9:28 am
The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) has been at the center of a long term effort to focus research on a variety of aspects of corporate governance among advanced economies. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 10:51 am
This from the California Corporations Section e-Bulletin (Dec. 19, 2013): (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) SEC Announces Rule Proposal on Regulation A+ At today’s Open Meeting, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose rules intended to increase access to capital for smaller companies. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 6:54 pm
For the ASCE Series' next interview, Larry Catá Backer had the great pleasure of speaking with Dr. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 7:16 pm
COmments, reactions, etc. most welcome.Regulating Multinational Corporations — Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Larry Catá Backer Brown Journal of World Affairs 22(1):153-173 (Fall/Winter 2015). [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 7:09 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) The issue of the human rights responsibilities of universities has become acute recently at universities like the Pennsylvania State University, in the context of the conditions of employment related to its health and wellness programs. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 12:51 pm
For the ASCE Series' next interview, Larry Catá Backer had the great pleasure of speaking with Ngọc Sơn Bùi who is an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law where he teaches and researches on constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and comparative law. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 8:52 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)The study of the relationship between the state and religion—especially organized and institutional religion originating in the West and Middle East--is grounded in an important and often overlooked premise. [read post]
7 Mar 2015, 8:09 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)China Digital Times recently reported (Feb. 25, 2015):Shortly after becoming General Secretary of the CCP in late 2012, Xi Jinping began promoting the “Chinese Dream,” a vaguely defined slogan to represent his leadership aspirations and the political ideology of his administration. [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]
