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From the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Developing...
I have noted that governance, even within the context of human rights, has been moving from system of command and principle, to system,s of assessment and reporting, where the techniques of ranking and...
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Forgotten Archipelago--Flora Sapio's Documents and Resources on China's...
I am happy to announce that my colleague Flora Sapio has revived her marvelous blog--Forgotten Archipelago. For those interested in documents and resources on China's Criminal Justice, this resource...
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Daniel Ivo Odon on the Emerging Rights of Animals in Argentine and...
Daniel Ivo Odon, my SJD student at Penn State Law and the winner of the inaugural Mauricio Correa Human Rights Award from the Brazilian Bar Association, has written about the recent Argentine Cámara...
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Michael Komesaroff on the Shape of Chinese Sovereign Investing: "Beijing Will...
Michael Komesaroff, principal of Urandaline Investments, a consultancy specializing in China’s capital intensive industries, and a former executive in residence at the School of International Affairs,...
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The Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in the Ukraine: The...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have noted in earlier posts that a significant problem of implementation for the Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights has been the ambiguity of the state...
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A Wrinkle on the State Duty to Protect Human Rights, When States are also...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)I have been considering some of the weaknesses of the state duty to protect human rights in the context of the three pillar Guiding Principles for Business and Human...
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"China's Corporate Social Responsibility with National...
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is holding its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. from January 2-6, 2015. The 2015 Annual Meeting Program is now available.Click here to view/download....
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Religion, Social Norms and the State: The 2015 Letter of the Sacerdotes...
For the last three years I have written of the annual letter of the Cuban Council of the High Priests of Ifá (Consejo Cubano De Sacerdotes Mayores De Ifá), the practitioners of traditional religion...
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On U.S.-Cuba Normalization
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The folks over at Opinio Juris were kind to invite me to guest post recently. The essay--On Cuban Normalization (Jan. 5, 2015)--can be accessed HERE. Here is the...
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More on the Implications of Cuba-U.S. Normalization: Essays From the...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been posting about the consequences of the December 2014 announcement of movements toward the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. See...
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Upcoming Critical Global Business Issues Symposium; Santa Clara University
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) __________Critical Global Business Issues SymposiumJoin Leading Experts in Practice and the Academyfor a Symposium February 6-7, 2015You are cordially invited to the...
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Ruminations 55: On Radicalization as Management Technique in Western...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The recent killings in France--one producing more public response and angst than the other--have again exposed some perhaps substantial contradictions in Western...
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To Be Published in 2015-- Frank Ravitch and Larry Catá Backer, "Law and...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)Frank Ravitch has produced one of the most interesting approaches to the study of the legal interaction of law and religion within the U.S: constitutional system. This...
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Democracy Part 31: In a World Premised on Exogenous Democracy is a Theory of...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer) I have been considering the contours and consequences of democratic principles organized around the action of voting--as the act of devolving sovereign authority on...
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The Legal Status of Constitutional Preambles--Matthew Hoffman on Developments...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The legal status of constitutional preambles continues to generate substantial interest, especially in states whose constitutional orders are experiencing periods of...
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For Martin Luther King Day: Transcript of MLK's Speech Delivered at Penn...
(Image: Penn State University Archives)To mark this day, I thought I would draw on the connection between Penn State University and the Rev. Dr. King. This from Penn State news:On Jan. 21, 1965,...
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From the Collège des Bernardins--Considering Current Issues from...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The Collège des Bernardins in Paris offers a rich intellectual life for those lucky enough be be able to participate. For French speakers, the Collège posts some of...
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Focusing on Civic Education in China--The CCP's Ideological Work Comes to the...
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015)The general offices of the Central Party and State Council recently issued a directive calling for the strengthening of civic education in Chinese universities along the...
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Report of the 9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies...
I am happy to pass along the Conference Report of the 9th Annual meeting of the European China Law Studies Association, held last November in Hong Kong. (for earlier discussion see here and here).The...
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