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21 Jun 2021, 11:21 am
    The Continuing Odyssey of Corporate Liability in Alien Tort Statute LitigationJoel SlawotskyThank you Larry for the invitation to post some preliminary comments on the continuous and somewhat tortuous path of confronting the corporate liability issue in litigation in U.S. courts pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”). [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 8:46 am
It is my great pleasure to announce an upcoming conference: The Future of Sovereign Wealth Funds, sponsored by the Wake Forest Law Review 2017 as their Spring Symposium. [read post]
21 Sep 2021, 5:22 am
  The 15th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association will be taking place this coming 24-26 September. [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 1:00 pm
 I am delighted to share with you the program (delayed a year because of COVID) of the European China Law Studies Association Annual Meeting. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 1:21 pm
In an effort to make the dimension of the changes to the existing world order by coronavirus clearer, we reached out to Larry Cata Backer , Professor of Law and International Affairs at Penn State University. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 7:47 pm by Frank Pasquale
I was recently listening to Health Affairs’s “Newsmaker Breakfast with Karen Pollitz. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 7:48 pm by Frank Pasquale
I was recently listening to Health Affairs's "Newsmaker Breakfast with Karen Pollitz. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 6:56 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)The issue of crafting an international legally binding instrument to regulate, international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises has moved to center stage since the adoption of a resolution by the U.N. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 8:39 am
Issues surrounding sovereignty have received increasing attention over the last few years, most recently in Congress’s decision regarding Saudi Arabian immunity. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:35 am
  See Larry Catá Backer, And a Treaty to Bind them All—On Prospects and Obstacles to Moving from the GPs to a Multilateral Treaty Framework, a Preliminary Assessment, Law at the End of the Day, July 3, 2014.It is in this context that the insights of John Ruggie may be especially important. [read post]
4 Jul 2021, 6:41 am
   SOME THOUGHTS ON THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND ITS IRISH/EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS AT CENTURY'S END   Larry Cata Backer   I want to thank  the Dun Laoghaire Fourth of July Festival Committee for their kind invitation to address you today. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 7:44 pm
 Liu Shuo, Erasmus University - The Liberalization of China’s Outbound Investment Regime  Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Problematic Domicile Principle in Proscribing “Foreign Investor” in M & A National Security Review of Mainland China  Yue Ying, Peking University Session 5: Law, Energy and Environment Graduate Law Centre, Warren Chan Moot Court Chair: Bryan Mercurio, Chinese University of Hong Kong - A Comparison between Shale… [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 7:30 pm
   The Longer-Term Ramifications of China’s BRI Jurisprudence Joel Slawotsky  Thank you Larry for allowing me to post my thoughts generated by your excellent and insightful essay New Guiding Cases From China Relating to Belt and Road Initiative--Emerging Jurisprudence for a New Global Trade Regime? [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 7:52 pm by Larry Catá Backer
 (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012))____________ Program:  International ConferenceonRealisation of Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Perspectives from China and India Dates: 29-30 November 2012Venue: Connie Fan Multi-media Conference Room, 4/F Cheng Yick-chi Building, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) PROGRAMME Thursday, 29 November 2012 9:00am-9:30am – Registration, Connie Fan Multi-media Conference room (MMR), CityU… [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 8:24 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Professor James Stewart, of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia, has produced a valuable on line symposium: Business and Human Rights: Next Steps. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 7:16 pm
I had earlier circulated information about the marvelous conference “变化世界中的公司”2018 年国际学术研讨会--2018 International Symposium on The Corporation in a Changing World, including the program and participant lists in 中国语文 and English (HERE).I was delighted to be part of this event that considered a range of corporate law related issues from a comparative… [read post]
20 Aug 2017, 6:37 pm
PROGRAM“European China Law Studies Young Scholars Workshop” at the 12th annual conference of European China Law Studies Association (ECLS) Wednesday, 23 August 2017 Leiden University 12.30 h Registration Leiden University, Law School Kamerlingh Onnes Building Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES Leiden 13.00 – 14.30 h Paving the Way for an Academic Career / Ways of Self-Presentation and Promotion as a Young Scholar ▪ Susan Finder (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) ▪ Rogier… [read post]