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Joel Slawotsky: "Corporate liability for violating international law under...
Joel Slawotsky, of the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, and the Law and Business Schools of the College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel has written an excellent...
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Just Published: "The Cooperative as a Proletarian Corporation: The Global...
My article, "The Cooperative as a Proletarian Corporation: The Global Dimensions of Property Rights and the Organization of Economic Activity in Cuba" has just been published and will appear in...
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Transparency International 2013 Global Corruption Barometer: The State of...
Transparency International has released its latest Global Corruption Barometer, drawing on a survey of more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries. (Cover Page Global Corruption Barometer 2013,...
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Paper Delivered at Berks County PA Bench-Bar Conference: Using the Sandusky...
On April 17, 2013, I delivered a presentation at the Berks County, Pennsylvania Bench-Bar meeting, held in Reading Pennsylvania. There is a strong connection to Berks County for me. My title honors...
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"Fazhi" 法制 and 法治 in China: Rule of Law; Rule by Law; Rule Through Legal System
Westerners spend a lot of time thinking about "rule of law," not just within their own domestic legal orders, but as a generalized concept of national and international law. Rule of law and the...
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Legal and Political Education With Chinese Characteristics...
I have been reading article on Chinese Legal Education authored by the American scholar Carl Minzner, The Rise and Fall of Chinese Legal Education, Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2,...
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On the Current State of China's Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors...
Chinese authorities first promulgated the Provisional Measures on Administration of Domestic Securities Investments of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors in 2002. It has since been revised in...
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Part XXVIII—Zhiwei Tong (童之伟) Series: How to Restrict Power in the Cage of...
(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduced the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟), one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been...
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New Paper Posted -- Towards a Robust Theory of the Chinese Constitutional...
I have been considering the development of modern Chinese constitutionalism. In particular, I have been considering the unique structures of Chinese constitutionalism beyond the constitutional...
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Xi Jinping's Constitutional Vision: Speech on the 30th Anniversary of the...
In the wake of the transition of leadership in China at the end of 2012, there has been a notable amount of attention paid to issues of constitutional structure and integrity. These movements have...
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Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Excludes Makers of Reconstituted Tobacco Leaf...
On May 8, 2013, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance published its decision to exclude the American company Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. and the Chinese company Huabao International Holdings...
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Chinese SOEs in Latin America--CSR and Culture
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Ruminations 49: "Society Knows What it Wants"-- Of Markets, Status...
In his germinal text, Henry David Thoreau expressed a contradiction that is worth exploring in some detail. He declared: the "greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be...
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Presentation at 2013 Annual Meeting Law and Society: Whose Crisis? Secular...
The Law and Society Association held its 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts this year. I presented a paper, entitled,
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New Paper Posted: "State and Party in the Scientific Development of a...
The City University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Chinese Law is hosting an International Conference on “The Rule of Law With Chinese Characteristics in Transition” to be held 5-7 June 2013...
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On the Relationship Between the Chinese Communist Party and Non-State...
The relationship between Communist Party and State has been the object of substantial work among Chinese and foreign academics. But perhaps more interesting is the emerging relationship between the...
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The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in Business Enterprises--Law,...
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The New Eugenics
The New Eugenics--The Private Sector, he University, and Corporate Health and Wellness Initiatives At least since the Enlightenment, people charged with the management of others, and especially those...
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"Dynamic Societal Constitutionalism"--Paper Posted
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) In his 2004 Storrs Lecture, Gunther Teubner asked:how is constitutional theory to respond to the challenge arising form three current major trends—digitization,...
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Michael Komesaroff on Factors Contributing to Performance of Chinese...
Michael Komesaroff is a principal of Urandaline Investments, a consultancy specializing in China’s capital intensive industries, and a former executive in residence at the School of International...
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