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Posted to SSRN: "Essay: Considering a Treaty on Corporations and Human Rights"

2 Sep 2015, 5:09 am

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)In the run-up to the 2015 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights to be held this November in Geneva, the issue of a comprehensive treaty for business and human rights will no doubt be at the center of discussion. [read post]

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Creating a Ratings System for Business Compliance with the OHCHR Accountability and Remedy (ARP) III Project--The Penn State CSR Lab 2020

2 Sep 2020, 1:46 pm

Pix © Larry Catá Backer (Thousand Buddhist Stele; N.Zhou c. 557-581 AD;The course was designed to bring a small group of students together to dig deep into the structures of the legalization of risk and its embedding in compliance and normative systems expressed through national, international, transnational, and private legal orders. [read post]

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Article Published: "The Emerging Structures of Socialist Constitutionalism with Chinese Characteristics: Extra-Judicial Detention and the Chinese Constitutional Order" (/Pac. Rim Law & Policy J. 23(2):251-341 (2014))

7 Jun 2014, 6:24 pm

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Along with my co-author Keren Wang, I am happy to report that our article, "The Emerging Structures of Socialist Constitutionalism with Chinese Characteristics: Extra-Judicial Detention and the Chinese Constitutional Order" has just been published and appears in the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 23(2):251-341 (2014). [read post]

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New Paper Posted: "Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation: The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights From the Bottom Up"

14 Sep 2013, 3:00 pm by Larry Catá Backer

Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights From the Bottom Up Larry Catá Backer, Nabih Haddad, Tomonori Teraoka, Keren Wang Abstract: With the June 2011 endorsement of the U.N. [read post]

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Can the State Survive its Own Ambitions? A Reluctant Critque of Legalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Codes

14 Jan 2016, 4:59 pm

: On the Regulatory Character of Private Corporate Codes Larry Catá Backer ABSTRACT: Recent efforts have sought to theorize the legalization of the social and economic sphere that is undiminished by time. [read post]

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Part 11: (Whose Project; Does the Individual Exist?): Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual

11 Mar 2015, 2:59 pm

For ease of reading Flora Sapio is identified as (FS), and Larry Catá Backer as (LCB). [read post]

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Part 42: (Obergefell v. Hodges, the Contextual Self and the Self Coupled): Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual

8 Jul 2015, 8:37 pm

For ease of reading Flora Sapio is identified as (FS), and Larry Catá Backer as (LCB). [read post]

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New Draft Essay Posted: "Institutionalizing Shangfang within the Chinese Socialist Rule-of-Law Framework"

14 Oct 2014, 10:02 am

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) My co-author, Keren Wang, and I are preparing for an upcoming conference of the European China Law Studies Association (欧洲中国法研究协会) to take place in late November in Hong Kong. [read post]

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Frank Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer discuss Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 US -- (No. 19–1392, June 24, 2022); the Implications for Religion Clause Jurisprudence.

6 Aug 2022, 12:18 pm

Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer Talk Pedagogy and Approach as they Introduce the 4th Edition to their Casebook, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (West Academic, 2021) To date we have videos discussing the following cases: 1. [read post]

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Essay Posted: The External Capitalist and Internal Marxist—The Fundamental Contradiction of Cuban Economic Reintegration in the Global Economic Order and the Role of the U.S.

28 Oct 2019, 6:06 pm

Larry Catá Backer Abstract: Since 2011, Cuba has sought to better embed itself into the global economy. [read post]

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Part 21: (Self Love, the Natural Master and the Natural Slave?): Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual

31 Mar 2015, 4:29 pm

Larry Catá Backer! [read post]

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Just Published: "A Lex Mercatoria for Corporate Social Responsibility Codes Without the State?: A Critique of Legalization Within the State Under the Premises of Globalization"

1 Apr 2017, 11:52 am

A Critiqueof Legalization Within the State Under the Premises of Globalization Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 24, No.1, 2017 Larry Catá Backer Abstract Recent efforts have sought to theorize the legalization of the social and economic sphere that is undiminished by time. [read post]

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"From the Castros to COVID: An ASCE Virtual Conference" Interview Series: Dr. Prof. Rafael Velazquez Perez (Holguin/Vigo) Speaks to Cuba's Bilateral Economic Relations

2 Jul 2020, 7:46 pm

Larry Catá Backer hosts the interviews. [read post]

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Presentation at 2013 Annual Meeting Law and Society: Whose Crisis? Secular Liberalism, the Theocratic State and the Political Consequences of Privileging Religion for Multi-Religious States

31 May 2013, 6:33 pm by Larry Catá Backer

Secular Liberalism, the Theocratic State and the Political Consequences of Privileging Religion for Multi-Religious States Larry Catá Backer[1]Abstract: Religion has returned to the secular state; does crisis result? [read post]

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Disclosure Systems and Securities Exchanges--On the World Federation of Exchanges Creation of a Sustainability Working Group and the Proposal to Require Extra Financial Disclosure

31 May 2014, 11:35 am

(generally, Backer, Larry Catá, Global Panopticism: States, Corporations and the Governance Effects of Monitoring Regimes. [read post]

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Frank S. Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer Discuss Ceremonial Deism, the Role of Custom and Tradition, Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983), and Town of Greece v. Galloway, 572 U.S. 565 (2014)

29 Nov 2021, 6:38 am

Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer Talk Pedagogy and Approach as they Introduce the 4th Edition to their Casebook, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (West Academic, 2021) To date we have videos discussing the following cases: 1. [read post]

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Just Published "Law Professor and Accidental Historian: The Scholarship of Michael A. Olivas" (Ediberto Román, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2017)

10 Jan 2017, 7:27 am

Larry Catá Backer, Chroniclers in the Field of Cultural Production: Interpretive Conversations Between Courts and Culture, 20 Bos. [read post]

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Part 18: (The Natural Slave and the Old Philosophy?): Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual

24 Mar 2015, 11:22 am

For ease of reading Flora Sapio is identified as (FS), and Larry Catá Backer as (LCB). [read post]

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Frank Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer on Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 593 U.S. -- (2021); Is Employment Division v. Smith Dead, Dying, or Mocking the Judicial Politics of the Court?

28 Jun 2021, 11:13 am

Frank S. [read post]