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Debating Guantanamo: Special Issue on the Guantanamo Naval Base
Ariana Hernandez Reguant reports for Cuba-Counterpoints on a a new focus on the Guantanamo Naval Base closure.Special Issue on the Guantánamo Naval Base! www.cubacounterpoints.com Legal scholars...
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More Movement in U.S. Cuban Relations: Publication of Updated Cuban Assets...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)This from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Controlannouncing publication of updated Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR):The Department of the Treasury's Office of...
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Detaching the Judicial Role from the Judge—A Reflection on The Nature of...
(Bao Zheng, Wikipidia image From Illustrations of the Three Powers (1609))The issue of judicial reform, and of the wiring style of the judge, has been at the forefront recently in China. Both national...
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Side Event at the 2nd Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group for a...
EXPLORING THE CONTENT OF THE PROPOSED TREATY ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: ACADEMIC REFLECTIONS Side event organized by Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Thursday, 27 October 2016 (1-3pm)...
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Conference Announcement: "China’s Guiding Cases System Turns Six: Retrospect...
China’s Guiding Cases System Turns Six: Retrospect and ProspectThe following two Guiding Cases Seminars will feature as speakers the Honorable Judge GUO Feng (郭鋒法官) (Supreme People’s Court), the...
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From the Finnish China Law Center: "Why studying Chinese law? – Read answers...
The Finnish China Law Center has just published a nice set of short interviews touching on the topic--why study Chinese law?: Three law professors from the United States, Denmark and Hong Kong, have...
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Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Student Housing Now a Growing Trend...
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2016) One is used to speaking about sovereign wealth funds either as vehicles for the projection of state power into the capital markets of foreign states through acquisition of...
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New Paper Posted: Commentary on the New Charity Undertakings Law: Socialist...
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2016)I am happy to report that I have posted a new paper for comment: Commentary on the New Charity Undertakings Law: Socialist Modernization Through Collective Organizations....
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Convocatoria a número de Temas dedicado a Pequeñas economías/Call for Papers...
The Cuban Journal Temas has issued a call for papers. Spanish writers and speakers, especially might be interested in this upcoming issue dedicated to small and medium sized private businesses in...
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Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop April 28-29, 2017; UCLA...
Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress WorkshopApril 28-29, 2017UCLA School of LawAnnouncement and Call for PapersOrganized by Máximo Langer (University of California at Los Angeles), Jacqueline Ross...
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Information on the Upcoming 2016 U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights
The 2016 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights will be held 14-16 November 2016 in Geneva. From the Forum website.The UN Forum is the world's largest annual gathering on business and human...
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Anthony Christina: "Tactics, Counseling, and Consequences--The Kathleen Kane...
My former student, Anthony Christina, now an associate attorney at Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart, P.C., has been following the tragedy that is the rise and fall of the former Attorney General of...
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"Un país donde la palabra convivencia está censurada": Recent Writing From...
I recently received the latest issue of Convivencia (No. 53). It reflects some of the dissident thinking in Cuba and its diaspora in the wake of normalization and, more importantly, the anticipated...
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Revised Paper Posted: "Theorizing Regulatory Governance Within its Ecology:...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Regulating in and through markets has been an idea long incoming. It reflects the potential for interconnectivity among distinct sources of law and rul making within...
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Ruminations 65: Thoughts on the 2016 United States Presidential...
It is by now well known that contrary to the expectations of some, Mr. Trump was elected presumptive President Elect of the United States on November 8, 2016. The results were close reactions are not...
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Between State, Company, and Market: A Preliminary Engagement with the 2016...
This past summer, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises delivered its 2016 Report to the U.N. Human Rights Council: Report of the...
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Congressional-Executive Commission on China Chairs Denounce Chinese...
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 "with the legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, and to...
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专访丨从中美关系到美国政治——专访Larry Backer(白 轲)教授 (Interview with Professor Larry Backer...
This Post includes the Chinese language transcript of an interview conducted on the day of the U.S. Presidential elections at Penn State with a group of Chinese students from Shanghai International...
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2016 U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights: Presentación de Laura Zúniga...
It was my great good fortune to attend the Session on Human Rights Defenders in Latin America at the 2016 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. Fifth U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights.The great...
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