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Ruminations 83(4) (On Information, Markets, Labor, and Politics): Looking...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The year 2018 is ending with the great rifts opened in 2016, and exposed in 2017, now acquiring a greater urgency and show and revealing the power of its consequences....
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Ruminations 83(5) (On the Games Peoples Play): Looking Back on 2018 in...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The year 2018 is ending with the great rifts opened in 2016, and exposed in 2017, now acquiring a greater urgency and show and revealing the power of its consequences....
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The Orishas Speak: The 2019 Letter of the Yoruba Association of Cuba (Letra...
(Pix CiberCuba Jan 1, 2019)Every religion connects the structures of divinity to the human communities around which their worship is structured and social, political, economic, and cultural communities...
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"Globalization, Sustainability and Firm Cultures"-- Program of the AALS...
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) sponsors an annual meeting attended by substantial numbers of academics based primarily in U.S. law schools. This year, the annual gathering is being held...
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Just Published Vol. 53(4) Latin American Research Review
The latest issue of the Latin American Research Review has just been published. Table of contents with links follows.Vol. 53, No. 4TABLE OF CONTENTSLiterature and Cultural StudiesWar Games / Puro...
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New Paper Posted: "Systemic Constraints on the Human Rights Obligations of...
I take this opportunity to let folks know that I have recently posted a draft of a new essay entitled: Systemic Constraints and the Human Rights Obligations of States and State Owned Enterprises.A...
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When Private Approaches Go Public: Brazil Establishes National Guidelines on...
(Pix credit here)Especially since the start of international efforts to create a single comprehensive treaty for business and human rights (see, e.g., here, here, and here), states have started to...
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A Tale of Two Speeches--Evidence From the Front Lines of Political Rupture
(Pix credit HERE) The current state of politics in the United States is well known. I have little to say about the substance of what marks the current fault lines of American politics that has not...
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Concept Note: "Marxist-Leninism 2.0: China’s Socialist Democracy"; Event to...
These are quite dynamic times for democracy--as theory, institution, and system. What had once been a term whose contours and applications appeared to converge around global certainties has...
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The Revised Draft Cuban Constitution Ready for Popular Vote--Comparison of...
As part of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics's Technical Assistance Project--Reforma de la Constitución del Estado cubano 2018/Reform of the Cuban State Constitution 2018, we have been writing about...
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Concept Note: "Marxist Leninism 2.0--Popular Participation, Representation,...
These are quite dynamic times for democracy--as theory, institution, and system. What had once been a term whose contours and applications appeared to converge around global certainties has...
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Neutral Data and Strategic Transparency: The Legal Battles Over the Political...
(Pix Credit U.S. Census Bureau)As those with authority (and the "thought leaders" that help drive their thinking) move more relentlessly to governance ideologies of data driven governance and...
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The Norwegian Pension Fund Global: On the Emerging Global Expectations of...
Pix: Texwinca Holdings LtdOn 6 June 2018, the Council on Ethics recommended to exclude the company Texwinca Holdings Ltd from the Government Pension Fund due to an unacceptable risk of the company...
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Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) and the Re-Construction of Fortress...
We have been writing about the pervasive importance of the Trump Administration's National Security Strategy as a driver of U.S. foreign and strategic policy (here, here, and here). Now it appears...
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Conference Details: "Marxist-Leninism 2.0: Theory and Practice of Emerging...
I have been circulating information about the two parts of a conference I am helping to organize at Penn State University this coming 12 February 2019. Marxist Leninism 2.0: Theories and Practices of...
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The Court's Lesson in Strategic Semiotics--Brief Thoughts on a Jurisprudence...
(Pix © Larry Catñá Backer; Bronzino Martirio di San Lorenzo, 1565-69, Florence )Judges and lawyers tend to serve as the worker bees of the large jurisprudential colonies of semiotic communities ("They...
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Update on Teaching Forum/Scholar's Association intervention on Facebook's...
Joanne Bauer, Co-Director of the Teaching Forum, and Michael Santoro, President of the Scholars Association, make public a letter privately communicated to Facebook executives expressing concerns about...
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Human Rights Without Chinese Characteristics and Global Production Chains...
(PIX Credit: US clothing company drops Chinese supplier over Xinjiang forced labour concerns)What happens when the trajectories of Chinese Socialist Human Rights and the emerging global consensus on...
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An American Eclogue on the Cuban Embargo: An Annotated Reflection on Nicholas...
(Photo Credit--Photo: YAMIL LAGE, Contributor / AFP/Getty Images)"I’m not a Cuba expert, and I don’t know how this country will evolve." (Nicholas Kristof, "The embargo on Cuba failed. Let’s move on"...
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Papa Johns, Corporate Risk Management, and the Social Responsibility of...
U.S. enterprises have been particularly sensitive to the social consequences of executive and board of director conduct, even when such conduct may not necessarily violate the law. I have suggested the...
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