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Escape Velocity From the Orbit of the State: Is Governance Without Government/Government Without the State Possible?

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Nov 10, 2009, 6:36 am
Set out below are some preliminary thought on the question posed by the title of this essay--is it possible to reach escape velocity from the orbit of the state, and state-law systems? In other words...
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Disciplining Education

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Nov 8, 2009, 1:45 am
It has long been true that the control of educational institutions have been a principal site for the control of social, cultural and political norms within a society. Everyone, from John Dewey to Fi...
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Who Owns the Name of God? The Malaysian Government Knows!

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Nov 5, 2009, 7:25 am
Who Owns the Name of God? One would at first suspect that the answer is that the Divine Presence owns its own name, or at least all of the variations through which humans attempt to provide a means o...
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Part II: The OECD, Vedanta, & the Indian Supreme Court—Polycentricity, Transnational Corporate Governance and John Ruggie's Protect/Respect Framework

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Nov 3, 2009, 1:54 pm
In Part I of this essay, Larry Catá Backer, Part I: The OECD, Vedanta, and the Supreme Court of India—Polycentricity in Transnational Governance--The Issue of Standing, Law at the End of the Day, ...
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Part I: The OECD, Vedanta, and the Supreme Court of India—Polycentricity in Transnational Governance--The Issue of Standing

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Nov 1, 2009, 4:05 pm
The state system remains stubbornly grounded in a monocentric view of law and regulation, even as it works to construct increasingly relevant multi-level systems of soft governance. “Here the great ...
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Transnational Constitutionalism Triumphant: The End of the Honduran Constitutional Crisis

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 31, 2009, 4:36 pm
“A constitution without legitimacy is no constitution at all. It is outside the law in the sense that it ought to be respected by the community against which it is applied. . . . Legitimacy is a f...
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Curriculum Reform and Emerging Class Structures in Legal Education

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 28, 2009, 8:28 pm
Curriculum reform continues to occupy much thinking within the American legal academy. For a review of some contemporary issues and distinct approaches to resolving them, see, e.g., Larry Catá Backe...
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Remodeling Kenya's Political System on a Chinese Foundation

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 24, 2009, 9:36 pm
I have suggested the importance of the Chinese model of state organization for both constitutionalist theory and the organization of states on the basis of a rule of law order quite distinct from that...
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Podcast of Presentation at Penn State: "The Party as Polity"

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 21, 2009, 7:54 pm
I recently presented my paper, “The Party as Polity, the Communist Party, and the Chinese Constitutional State: A Theory of State-Party Constitutionalism,” as part of Pennsylvania State University...
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On Challenges to Operationalizing a Transnational Framework for Business and Human Rights--the View From Geneva

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 13, 2009, 8:02 am
"On 5-6 October 2009, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) held a consultation: "Operationalizing the framework for business and human rights presented by the Special Repres...
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On the Malleability of Genocide--Turkey Between Armenia, Israel and China

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 12, 2009, 7:05 pm
Genocide has proven to be an elastic concept since the Second World War. It has become a powerful accusation that can serve to de-legitimate regimes who are successfully accused of the practice. Its...
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Rewarding the American State Apparatus for Good Behavior: Understanding and the Awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mr. Obama

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 9, 2009, 7:57 am
This blog site joins the great chorus of people and institutions in raising a loud hosanna to the genius of the global community now manifested in the form of the recent decision of the Nobel organiza...
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Al-Qaida in China

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 8, 2009, 9:00 pm
The Jerusalem Post recently reported that al Qaeda appears to have assessed itself strong enough to take on the Chinese in Xinjiang. Al Qaida spokesmen announced on Thursday that the organization'...
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When Collectivist Economies Meet Sovereign Investing: Dubai Ports in Cuba

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 4, 2009, 10:08 am
Over the last decade, Cuba has sought to revivify the concept of state to state economic activity. As one of the last bastions of organization on the model of the old Stalinist collectivist state app...
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On Autonomy and Complexity in the Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 2, 2009, 7:30 pm
A few weeks ago I noted the announcement of a restructuring fo the capital of the Chinese sovereign investment vehicle, the China Investment Corporation, and changes ot dividend policies. Larry Catá...
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Rise and Fall of Shoe Throwing as a Media Sanctioned Political Event

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Oct 1, 2009, 10:22 am
The use of the media for the projection of potent political speech is a dangerous business. News cycles are short; and the power to ridicule is as great as the power to elevate symbolic speech. So ...
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"Diana: A Celebration": Celebrity as a Status Power Marker in an Age of Mass Democracy

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 29, 2009, 7:27 am
The Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau recently announced: Even more than a decade after her untimely death, Princess Diana remains an adored and admired figure. In the fall of 2009, the Nati...
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The Financial Stability Board and Global Financial Governance After the September 2009 G20 Conclave

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 26, 2009, 8:56 am
The Financial Stability Board, a little known inter governmental amalgamation of economic regulatory authorities from G20 states has come into it own with the release of three significant reports at ...
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The Other Shoe Drops--Brazilian Interventionism in Honduras

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 23, 2009, 4:28 pm
I had suggested yesterday that the miraculous entry of Mr. Zelaya into Honduras and his equally fortuitous admission into a Brazilian Embassy in the Honduran capital just when coincidentally enough t...
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Democracy Part XVIII-- Constitutional Caudillismo: End Games in Honduras

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 22, 2009, 1:36 pm
There is something refreshing about international relations when old patterns are embraced by actors new to their roles. The freshness intensifies where those patterns also hearken back to more tradi...
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Transnational Corporate Constitutionalism?

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 21, 2009, 8:59 pm
I was fortunate to have recently participated in the excellent program, The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere?, hosted by the International Center for Business and Politics, and i...
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A Chinese Perspective on Cuban Economic Reform

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 20, 2009, 8:03 pm
It it commonly understood that China may not be a good model for Cuban economic reform. See Larry Catá Backer, Cuban Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: Cuban Marxism, Private Economic Collec...
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On SWF Autonomy: Restructuring the China Investment Corporation

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 20, 2009, 3:04 pm
The China Investment Corporation, the Chinese sovereign Wealth Fund, is the principle organ of Chinese sovereign investing. I have suggested the nature of that investing in recent work. See, Larry ...
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From Narrative to Narrator: Remarks at "Business Law and Narrative Symposium" at MSU

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 16, 2009, 9:46 am
It was my great privilege to have participated in the recently concluded conference, "Business Law and Narrative" sponsored by the Michigan State University College of Law, September 11, 2009., organi...
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On the Horizen--Brazil-China Trade Competititon in a Complex BRIC Relationship

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 12, 2009, 8:03 pm
In traditional developed states elites, and their media outlets, tend to think about the so-called BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) as some sort of monolith. Each serves as a separate strand that tog...
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The Chinese Communist Party and the Governance Structures of SWFs and SOEs: "Unswervingly Upholding the Party's Core Political Status in SOEs"

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Sep 1, 2009, 7:07 pm
Western commentators continue to have a fairly parochial view of the governance frameworks that must be understood for the construction of satisfactory governance regimes for sovereign wealth funds (S...
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Judging the Honduran Constitutional Order Beyond the State—An Interrogation of the View From the Transnational Sector

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Aug 29, 2009, 2:18 pm
There was a time when international law played little role in the way in which a sovereign nation-state ordered its constitutional system, and then applied that ordering internally. That was especia...
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Democracy Part XVII: On the Legislature as an Aggregation of Interests and the Role of the Electorate in Representative Democracies

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Aug 28, 2009, 12:03 pm
Some of the best contemporary political theory is being developed by those without oblivious to the role they play. A very real sense of both the source and content of modern political theory of rep...
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ISO 26000: Working on a Common Global Language of Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Aug 21, 2009, 1:24 pm
A new governance environment requires a common language. The entity that controls the construction of that common language will, effectively, also control the underlying parameters and normative fram...
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Converging State and Economy: Further Reflections on the Rio Tinto Executives Arrest in China

Larry B. posted an article on Law at the End of the Day - Aug 19, 2009, 10:37 am
The arrest of four Rio Tinto executives this summer has produced a significant amount of consequences for people interested in international relations, law, foreign investment and corporate governance...
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We are all factors in the production of knowledge. Each of us go about that task in different ways. I spend a lot of time trying to understand the world in which we live and for which we are all compelled to do (and not do) things. I write and speak about what I discover. Consider my web site as part of my end of a conversation with readers.

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