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(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010. See, Larry Catá B... Comment - Like
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(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010. See, Larry Catá B... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 10:17 pm
(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010. See, Larry Catá B... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 5:59 pm
(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010. See, Larry Catá B... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 7:39 pm
(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010. See, Larry Catá B... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 1:54 am
(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010. See, Larry Catá ... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 9:46 pm
(Zhiwei Tong (童之伟), Picture (c) Larry Catá Backer))
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. The Ruminations Series in 2009 sought to develop a set of aphoristic (ἀφορισμός) essays, meant to provoke thought rather t... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 3:33 pm
Lawyers for Better Business (L4BB), an online publication and network to enable lawyers to become champions of corporate responsibility, has recently posted a very interesting conversation with Mary Robinson, L4BB, Smart Mix, Interview of Mary Robinson Conducted by Kathryn Dovy (Jan. 2012). PDF Ve... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 9:11 pm
In April, 2011, after fourteen years without one, the Cuban Communist Party held its 6th Party Congress in which it adopted a number of guidelines for changes to the Cuban economy and society.
"The Sixth Congress laid out the road map for economic policy changes on this Caribbean island, and lef... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 11:07 am
Recent scandals and media coverage of abuses, all in violation of law as expressly set out in statutes, regulations and judicial opinion, legal provisions, have focused less on the punishment of the offender, and significantly more on the use of law as a tool in the prevention of criminal activit... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2012, 10:57 am
(From Apple discloses suppliers for the first time, KLEWTV.com, Jan. 13, 2012 ("Apple for the first time is disclosing the list of suppliers that produce the iPhone, iPad and other popular gadgets amid criticism of labor and environmental practices, especially in China."))
In 2006, in the wake o... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 11:45 am
(Photo (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012).
Over the last several years I have been wrestling with the issue of constitutionalism. (Larry Catá Backer, From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems (September 22, 2008). Penn State Law Review, Vol. 113, N... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2011, 10:53 pm
Zhujiajiao (Chinese: 朱家角; Pinyin: Zhūjiājiǎo Zhèn; Zhujiajiao means "Zhu Family Settlement") is a well known local tourist destination, knowbn both for its scenery and its food.
(From SHCR, Zhujiajiao)
“Located in a suburb of Shanghai city, Zhujiajiao is an ancient water town well... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 7:27 am
It is possible on a long walk to draw out complexity and juxtapositions. In some spots, the architecture and organization of a physical space—in the form of city, roads, buildings, people flows and the like—cam serve as a concrete expression of the social, cultural and political organization of ... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 2:13 am
First impressions are usually both important for setting foundations, but also ultimately wrong. Shanghai has the feel of the New York of three generation’s ago, with the atmosphere of Los Angeles a generation ago, the lights of contemporary Tokyo, drivers who appear to learn their craft in Bueno... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 5:41 pm
Over the next several postings I will distill the essence of insights I have drawn from extended conversations with Chinese scholars, and officials--from both the state and Party sides of the Chinese political universe.
(From Fake Tiananmen Square outside Beijing?!, Am I Mean? Sept. 15, 2011)
Wh... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2011, 12:11 am
We are becoming only what we measure.
(From You are what you measure, Sam Luce.com, May 26, 2010 ("I came across this great article from Harvard Business Review. It was short thought provoking and to the point. “If we want to change what they care about, we should change what we measure.” “W... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 11:08 pm
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker "holds a degree in sustainable development from the University of Berkeley, California. She is a professor at the Centre for Studies on the Cuban Economy at Havana University, and her works have been published both in Cuba and outside the island. She is also, incidently, th... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 9:40 am
The cultural expectations of the forms of discourse (communication through language by use of a particular set of word forms with expected associative meanings that extent beyond the meaning of the words strung together) and the meaning of words used together to communicate in culturally meaningfu... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2011, 10:32 pm
It is my great pleasure to again host an essay by my colleague, Nichola D. Gutgold. Professor Gutgold is associate professor of communication at Penn State – Lehigh Valley. For a profile of Professor Gutgold, please see, Dawn Lennon, A Profile of Dr. Nichola Gutgold: Grit and Gumption Power a Ca... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2011, 4:19 pm
I have been examining the mechanics and ideologies of inter-Party discipline and its connection to constitution and state apparatus in China.
(From CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection holds 8th plenum)
Part I. Larry Catá Backer, Communist Party and State Discipline in China: Exp... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2011, 10:11 am
On March 24, 2011 the United Nations released the "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework" (the "GP" or "Guiding Principles"), the culmination of the work of UN Special Representative on business & human rights, John Ruggie, and his team.
The Guid... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 9:49 pm
I have begun considering the nature of intra-Party discipline within the Chinese Communist Party and its relationship to issues of law and state power. In Part I provided an introduction to the notion of Shuang gui in theory and practice. See Larry Catá Backer,Communist Party and State Discipli... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2011, 5:38 pm
On March 24, 2011 the United Nations released the "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework" (the "GP" or "Guiding Principles", by UN Special Representative on business & human rights, John Ruggie. The Guiding Principles were endorsed by the U.N.... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2011, 10:40 am
On March 24, 2011 the United Nations released the "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework" (the "GP" or "Guiding Principles"), by UN Special Representative on business & human rights, John Ruggie.
(From Yar: Piracy at the Seventh Circuit, Ha... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 8:42 pm
G. B. Hagelberg has recently passed. He was a long time member of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. Many of his papers have been published in its proceedings. These included:
(From Nicholas Elledge, Cuba's Sweet Success May Come from an Ethanol FutureThe Cutting Edge, Nov. 2,... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 2:03 pm
On March 24, 2011 the United Nations released the "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework" (the "GP" or "Guiding Principles"), by UN Special Representative on business & human rights, John Ruggie. The Guiding Principles were endorsed by the ... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2011, 5:05 pm
On March 24, 2011 the United Nations released the "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework" (the "GP" or "Guiding Principles"), the culmination of the work of the UN Special Representative on business and human rights, John Ruggie, and his team... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2011, 12:27 pm
For those who missed it, there has been an increasing turn toward university assessment as a market actor and participant. Ideologically predisposed groups--both those suspicious of the "efficiency" of university education and those committed to the status quo--are deploying the techniques of the ... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2011, 9:00 pm
On March 24, 2011 the United Nations released the "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework" (the "GP" or "Guiding Principles"), by UN Special Representative on business &; human rights, John Ruggie. The Guiding Principles were endorsed by the U.N. H... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2011, 3:40 pm
Today, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced the exclusion of the Mexican company, Grupo Carso SAB de CV from the investment universe of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund--Global.
(From Yahoo Finance, Grupo Carso SAB-A1 (Aug. 24, 2011 )
The determination was straightforward, involving ... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2011, 9:46 pm
For some time, I have been suggesting coherence and complexity in the structuring of Chinese strategies for projecting investment power abroad. Backer, Larry Catá, Sovereign Investing in Times of Crisis: Global Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds, State Owned Enterprises and the Chinese Experie... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2011, 7:52 pm
I have written about an international conference on legal education held in June in Toledo, Spain. See, Larry Catá Backer, The Internationalization of Legal Education--Globalization or Americanization? The View From Spain, Law at the End of the Day, .June 26, 2011, in which I also included the... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 7:57 pm
It is not uncommon to think of the "issues" of sovereign wealth funds as one that is essentially binary--sovereign wealth funds as sources of sovereign wealth coming into the private markets of host states and investing in their equities. The issue then, as now endlessly reiterated, becomes one of... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 9:25 pm
(Juan O. Tamayo, Corruption again alleged in Cuba: Reports: Two Cuban officials fired for corruption, others under investigation, Miami Herald, Aug. 9, 2011 (El edificio de la compania telefonica ETECSA en Miramar))
One of the marks of the seriousness of a commitment to change is the willingness of... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2011, 10:29 pm
Recently, presidential candidate and former governor Mitt Romney caused a bit of a stir while campaigning among the people of Iowa in search of credibility and signs of popular support for his presidential ambitions. The object of interest was Mr. Romney's effort to describe his sense of the charact... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2011, 10:48 pm
(From http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100)
The ABA Journal produces an annual list of what it rates as the 100 best legal blogs. They are soliciting advice on which blawgs readers think they should include in the Blawg 100. They invite interested people to use the Blawg 100 Amici formto tell... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2011, 11:41 pm
This is the second year I will be teaching one of the core courses at the School of International Affairs at Penn State: Actors, Institutions, and Legal Frameworks in International Affairs.
This course introduces students to the various levels of international interaction and exchange (supranatio... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2011, 3:05 pm
(From Michigan Law School Website)
Eric Stein, one of the great voices in comparative and international law studies has recently died at the age of 98. His life and importance was nicely described in the announcement of his passing posted by the University of Michigan, where he taught. Prof. E... Comment - Like
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Aug 2, 2011, 10:42 pm
One of the more interesting issues of Chinese state institutional organization is the relationship between the Communist Party and the State. I have suggested that though the CCP does not enjoy an extra constitutional role in Chinese political organization, it does exist autonomously from the stat... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2011, 11:39 pm
I have recently suggested the importance of toolboxes and the methodologies of standards implementation as a source of governance in their own right. I have focused on surveillance methodologies. Larry Catá Backer, Global Panopticism: States, Corporations and the Governance Effects of Monitorin... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2011, 6:15 pm
(From Mallen Baker, Corporate Social Responsibility - What does it mean?)
Over the last decade, corporate social responsibility has become more accepted among investors, non-governmental communities and consumers in developed states. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a fairly w... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2011, 11:02 am
It is a commonplace that Chinese officials tend to be leery of the notions of human rights, especially when being lectured on its finer points by foreigners. From the Chinese perspective, the global human rights discourse might represent a disguised attempt to effectuate changes in Chinese political... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2011, 10:35 am
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), with headquarters in Geneva, describes itself as "a non-governmental organisation devoted to promoting the understanding and observance of the rule of law and the legal protection of human rights throughout the world." The ICC is well placed within the ... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2011, 11:25 pm
(From Cory Robin, The First Counter-revolutionary The Nation, October 19, 2009)
In 2010, the faculty at Penn State Law approved the creation of a new concept course, to be named "Elements of Law". Its description was meant to be general, to provide faculty with some space to develop con... Comment - Like
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Jul 20, 2011, 8:32 pm
Today, my friend and colleague, Joel Slawotsky, contributes this excellent and insightful essay on the recent line of cases considering the application of the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350) to corporate entities. The ATS provides simply: “The district courts shall have original ... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2011, 6:26 pm
Cultures and mechanics of corruption in Marxist Leninist states are both important and distinctly constituted from corruption in its manifestations in market economies--including the United States and the European Union. En Cuba, por ejemplo, no puede hablarse en los mismos términos sobre la ... Comment - Like
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Jul 13, 2011, 10:22 pm
There has been much discussion about the recent events in Libya, where popular protests led to what can reasonably be described as a combination civil war and popular insurrection against an unpopular regime--unpopular with the Libyan population as well as with various powerful states.
(From L... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 10:34 am
My colleague, Andeu Olesti Rayo, is Catedrático de Derecho internacional público (Derecho comunitario europeo) at the University of Barcelona, has researching the construciton of migration pòlicies and practices in the EU.
Olesti's main area of expertise is in European Union law. Within this are... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2011, 10:23 am
The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy will be hosting its 21st Annual meeting and Conference in Miami August 4-6, 2011. The 2011 Conference Program can be accessed here.
ASCE has also published its proceedings since its inceptions, many of which remain important and timely wor... Comment - Like
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