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Upcoming Workshop: "Entangled Legalities," Geneva Switzerland May 2018
On Thursday 24 May 2018, 09:00 - Friday 25 May 2018, 17:00, the Graduate Institute of Geneva and its Global Governance Center will host what is shaping up to be a quite pathbreaking conceptual workshop...
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Think Piece: "And an Algorithm to Bind them All? Social Credit, Data Driven...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2006)I am delighted to be part of the upcoming workshop entitled Entangled Legalities hosted by the Graduate Institute of Geneva and its Global Governance Center (more HERE)....
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Arturo Lopez-Levy & Rolf Otto Niederstrasser: "Five Keys to Presidential...
The recent transition of leadership in Cuba, through which Raúl Castro ceded the Presidency of the Republic to Miguel Diaz-Canel (while retaining the position of 1st Secretary of the Cuban Communist...
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Call for Papers: European China Law Studies Association 欧洲中国法研究协会 Conference;...
The 13th annual conference of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS) will take place in Turin (Italy) on 13 – 14 September 2018, with the support of the University of Turin, its Department...
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Thoughts on the Cuban Air Disaster and the Tragegy of Managing Accountability...
(Pix from "Cuba plane crash leaves more than 100 dead" BBC News (19 May 2018))"Three women were pulled alive from the wreckage, but are said to be in a critical condition. The plane, which was nearly...
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Reflections on the Development of the Emerging Field of Business and Human...
(Picasso Baigneurs a la Garoupe (1957) Art and History Museum Geneva)Surya Deva, Anita Ramasastry, Michael Santoro, and Florian Wettstein, the Co-Editors in Chief of the Business and Human Rights...
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Announcing Roundtable: Human Rights and the Business of Social Media (City...
Roundtable onHuman Rights and the Business of Social MediaDate and time: Monday, 25 June 2018 (9:30am – 12:30pm)Venue: P5401, 5/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, City University of HKThe Human Rights...
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Reflections on Jiang Shigong on ‘Philosophy and History: Interpreting the “Xi...
(Pix credit HERE)The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ought to be the focus of substantial study in the West. It's announcement of a "New Era" was not just an ideological flourish....
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The Affair of the Cuban Sonic Weapons Attack From a Cuban to A global...
(Photo credit: U.S. creates task force to investigate ‘sonic attacks’ on American diplomats in Cuba and China, June 6, 2018by Alberto de la Cruz)The Affair of the Cuban Sonic Weapons Attacks appear to...
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Ruminations 78: Reflections on the 74th Anniversary of D-Day; Memory,...
(Photo credits USA Today, HERE)D-Day is the name given to the day of the commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied assault on the German coastal positions in Normandy as an initial action for the...
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Flora Sapio: Four Short Reflections on Jiang Shigong’s Essay on “Philosophy...
(Pix credit HERE)In January 2018 Professor Jiang published an article, "哲学与历史—从党的十九大报告解读“习近平时代”[‘Philosophy and History: Interpreting the “Xi Jinping Era” through Xi’s Report to the Nineteenth National...
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The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack Goes Global--From Cuba to China in the...
(Pix credit here)The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attacks has now gone global. What started as a matter on the periphery of American interest--euphemistically called (and mocked) as attacks of sonic...
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Picture and Communique: Agit Prop at the G7
The picture was taken by Jesco Denzel, a German government photographer, and released by Steffen Seibert, spokesman for the chancellor, Angela Merkel (Merkel's G7 photo says everything about Trump's...
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The Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack--Just When Attention Turned to China,...
(Two more US workers including a diplomat are pulled from Cuba )The issue of injury to American nationals, mostly members of the diplomatic staff of the United States continues to make news....
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Cuban Sugar in the Shadow of the Affair of the Sonic Weapons Attack:...
(Sugarcane Pix credit here)Fifth Generation warfare tends to be boring and complex. That is its greatest value in an information soaked world with large spikes in mass interest but little long term...
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Human Rights Driven Economic Regulation Through Supply Chains--Thoughts on...
OECD Watch has circulated this Press Release:Civil society organizations call on G20 to protect human rights in global supply chains Jun 13, 2018 As G20 employment and education ministers meet today in...
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Just Published: "Chinese Constitutionalism in the 'New Era': The Constitution...
I am happy to announce the publication of "Chinese Constitutionalism in the 'New Era': The Constitution in Emerging Idea and Practice," which appears in the latest issue of the Connecticut Journal of...
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Upcoming ASCE Webinair June 20, 2018 NOON (East Coast Time): "Foreign...
The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) has been sponsoring its Webinar Series for 2018, considering different aspect of Cuban law and policy. I am happy to pass along information...
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Just Published:"OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: A Glass Half...
It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of Just Published: OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: A Glass Half Full(Liber Amicorum for Dr. Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair of the OECD...
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Shan Gao Two Essays: (1) "Comments on Human Rights and Artificial...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)This post highlights two short essays produced by Shan Gao, a valued member of the research team at the Coalition for Peace and Ethics. The first essay, Business AND...
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