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Brief Reflections on the OMFIF/Refinitv Report: The Role of Data in...
"Everybody wants comparable reliable, robust data, but no one quite knows how to get it, and people are very scared about the implications of what having that much data might mean on a societal...
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Remarks by Mr Trump and Mr Xi to the 75th Session of the United Nations...
Pix Credit: U.S.-China Rift Worries World Leaders at the United NationsAs is customary at this event, a number of important (or self important) world leaders appear before the United Nations at the...
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Open Call for Input from the UN Working Group for Business and Human Rights:...
In the West, humans, and their institutions, are sometimes obsessed with the magical quality of the passage of time. Time, of course, IS magical, in the sense that it signals first a thrusting toward...
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The Penn State CSR Lab 2020 Report No. 1: Creating a Ratings System for...
In a prior post I mentioned the start of an extra credit project undertaken by my class on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Law at Penn State Law (Creating a Ratings System for Business...
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Litigating Cuba: Havana Docks Corp. v. Carnival Corporation and the LIBERTAD Act
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 (Havana Harbor from Regla))Title III of the LIBERTAD Act, “created a private right of action against any person who ‘traffics’ in confiscated Cuban property.”...
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From Reform and Opening Up to Dual Circulation Strategy--China Responds to...
Pix: Why China's 'dual circulation' plan is bad news for everyone else I have been writing on the collective efforts lead by the vanguard elements of the liberal democratic camp on Chinese policy in...
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On the Soft Underbelly of the United States: Reflections on...
(Pix Credit:La Cuba de Fidel y la China de Mao: dos comunismos enfrentados)It is invariably the small and sometimes apparently insignificant side notes of history that reveal much about the emerging...
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COVID, Control, and Complicity in Rwanda: A Brief Reflection on Human Rights...
"Rwanda’s police force says the technology deployed in the fight against coronavirus will boost its ability to maintain order and security beyond the pandemic. 'Policing is more efficient with...
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Striking Back: Reflections on Xi Jinping Strong Defense of China's Xinjiang...
习近平出席第三次中央新疆工作座谈会并发表重要讲话I have been writing on the collective efforts lead by the vanguard elements of the liberal democratic camp on Chinese policy in the autonomous regions and Special...
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Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs Speaker Series Lecture 1...
I was delighted to have been invited to contribute to the 4th Annual Fall Speaker Series At Penn State Law The Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs. This year Fall Speaker Series...
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Coalition for Peace & Ethics: Input to the UNGPs +10: "Toward a Decade of...
In a prior post I passed along the announcement by the UN Working Group for Business and Human Rights of a Call for Input for its new global project, ‘Business and human rights: towards a decade...
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"Fratelli Tutti": Social Solidaity and Faith Against the Reason of the Market
On the anniversary of St Francis of Assisi's death, Pope Francis celebrates Mass before the Saint's tomb and signs his Encyclical "Fratelli tutti". Pix Credit HERE There is a greatness in simplicity...
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Call for Abstracts and Panel Proposals: ASCE's 30th Annual Meeting(II),...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS and PANEL PROPOSALSASCE's 30th Annual Meeting, Part Two Caught in a Perfect “Storm”: Are Havana’s Responses Sufficient? January 4-6, 2021...
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Data-Driven Values-Based Hedging in the Shadow of COVID-19: Cuba and Costa...
Pix Credit: (Marc Frank, Cuba opens most of country to tourism as enters "new normality", Reuters) In a recent reflection (Simulating Politics in the Shadow of COVID-19: "'like the school nurse...
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Submission to the EU on the EU Regulation on Mandatory Human Rights and...
I am delighted to pass along the "Submission to the EU on the EU Regulation on Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence" for the Professional Training for Lawyers & Barristers in the...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: "The China Deep Dive: A...
Adam Schiff is no friend to the Trump Administration (e.g., here). And yet it appears that the House intelligence Committee he chairs has now produced a Report that aligns quite nicely with President...
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Announcing Publication of "Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative Public...
I am delighted to share the announcement of the publication of Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique. It will be published by Springer ad available in hardback...
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Meaning Making History--Donald Trump: Columbus Day Proclamation; Indigenous...
Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate Shared history within a political community has always been difficult; all the more so when history moves, as it...
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Announcing Posting of Video Recordings of the Association for the Study of...
In conjunction with the Association for the Study of the Cuba Economy (ASCE) and the Coalition for Peace and Ethics (CPE), I am delighted to share the video recordings of the ASCE 2020 Virtual...
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Cuban Constitutionalism in a Global Context--A Conversation With Jorge...
The Association for the Study of the Cuba Economy (ASCE) with the support of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics (CPE), has undertake an interview series. The object of this series is to draw...
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