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The New Draft of the "Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, The Activities of Corporations and Other Business Enterprises:" Part 22--Articles 11 (international cooperation) and 12 (consistency with international law), With a Nod to Article 16 (Dispute Settlement)

29 Sep 2019, 5:13 am

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)The Coalition for Peace and Ethics BHR Treaty Project is considering [read post]

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Governance Conundrums and the University--Penn State and the Realignments of Governance Norms for the 21st Century

29 Aug 2012, 9:59 am by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012)Penn State is among those "laboratories" within which [read post]

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The Trial of Bo Xilai--Broadcast Live

22 Aug 2013, 6:48 am by Larry Catá Backer

(Backer, Larry Catá and Wang, Keren, State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate [read post]

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Venkatesh Nayak on the Changes to Whistle-Blower Protection in India Approved by the Lok Sabha Amidst Opposition Walkout

13 May 2015, 7:14 pm

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information [read post]

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Call for Papers: European China Law Studies Association Annual Meeting 20-22 September 2023 (Helsinki)

11 Jan 2023, 4:43 am

Pix Credit Larry Catá Backer 2019It is my great pleasure to circulate the Call for Papers [read post]

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Just Published: "Considering a Treaty on Corporations and Human Rights: Mostly Failures But With a Glimmer of Success," in The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a U.N. Treaty (Jernej Letnar Černič and Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli, eds., Cambridge, Intersentia Press (2018))

14 Feb 2018, 8:17 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)I recently reported the publication of The Future of Business [read post]

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Corruption Wars and the Last Battle of the Malaysian Kaiju: Anwar Ibrahim is Sworn in as Prime Minister as Mahathir Mohamad Loses Re-election Bid

25 Nov 2022, 7:31 am

(Larry Catá Backer, Emasculated Men, Effeminate Law in the United States, Zimbabwe and Malaysia [read post]

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Just Published: "Chinese Constitutionalism in the 'New Era': The Constitution in Emerging Idea and Practice," 33(2) Connecticut Journal of International Law 163-213 (2018)

18 Jun 2018, 7:17 pm

Catá Backer Connecticut Journal of International Law 33(2):163-213 (2018). [read post]

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Molding and Practicing CSR--Amy O'Connor and Michelle Shumate on a View from the Corporation Out

8 Apr 2012, 6:38 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Backer, Larry Catá, Multinational Corporations as Objects and Sources of Transnational [read post]

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Fugitive Disentitlement and the Juridical Presumptions of Administrative Agencies in the United States

13 Mar 2012, 6:14 pm by Larry Catá Backer

One of them is the so-called principle of fugitive disentitlement:(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer [read post]

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Ordering Markets for Academic Knowledge Goes Global: Pablo Lerner on "Foreign Influences and 'Law Reviews Rankings' in Israeli Legal Scholarship "

1 Jul 2013, 9:54 am by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) One of the principle external consequences of this market [read post]

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Just Published: "Are Supply Chains Transnational Legal Orders? What We Can Learn from the Rana Plaza Factory Building Collapse"

25 May 2017, 5:46 pm

What We Can Learn from the Rana Plaza Factory Building Collapse Larry Catá Backer*Abstract: In [read post]

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Just Published: "Fractured Territories and Abstracted Terrains: Human Rights Governance Regimes Within and Beyond the State"

14 Mar 2016, 7:30 am

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)Representation as the foundation of governance legitimacy [read post]

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Dialogue in Extremis: Venezuela and Political Dialogue Among the Ruins of Economy and Society

25 Nov 2016, 9:03 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)The indulgence of extremes in politics invariably has [read post]

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New Draft Posted: "The Human Rights Obligations of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs): Emerging Conceptual Structures and Principles in National and International Law and Policy"

4 Jun 2017, 7:51 pm

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New Paper: Collisions of Societal Constitutions: Hierarchical Power Arrangements and Horizontal Effects in the Management of Human Rights Regimes

2 May 2012, 7:21 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012)The initial version will be presented at the [read post]

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Chinese Constitutionalism, Text and Meta-Text: Part 5

3 Nov 2011, 8:57 pm by Larry Catá Backer

purposes, an initial set of workshops are proposed, to be led by Professor Zhiwei Tong in China and Larry [read post]

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Participate in Online Forum: Business and Human Rights

1 Dec 2009, 7:21 am by Larry Catá Backer

See Larry Catá Backer, On Challenges to Operationalizing a Transnational Framework for Business [read post]

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At the 2nd U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights--Reflections on Bilchitz and Deva (eds) "Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?"

1 Dec 2013, 3:50 am

, Larry Catá, Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nation's Norms on [read post]

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Asser Institute Center for International and European Law: [Spring academy] Technologies of sustainability due diligence: Digital tools and global value chain regulations

5 Apr 2024, 6:20 am

University of Amsterdam)Rashad Abelson (Tech Sector Lead, OECD Center for Responsible Business)Larry [read post]

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