Law at the End of the Day

  Pix credit here   "Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal upheld a 40-month sentence for pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi, the first person tried under the city’s sedition law since Hong K...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/pui-yin-lo-revival-of-sedition.html

I am delighted to pass along an announcement for a CfP for Legal Imaginaries —  a Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference and hosted by the University of Hong...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/cfp-legal-imaginaries-law-literature.html

  Pix credit here Empire has its privileges.  But there are consequences.  One recalls the scandal during the Obama Administration when in the wake of the 2013 Snowden leaks the leading ...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/mexico-versus-ecuador-within-theatrical.html

   Delighted to pass along the contents of Volume 33(147) of the Journal of Contemporary China, which include some quite interesting contributions.   Journal of Contemporary China  ...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/just-published-journal-of-contemporary.html

Pix Credit here   > Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my > salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Psalm 25:5 I have been working on...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/part-7-part-ii-chapter-6-ungp-general.html

  Pix Credit Wall Street Journal   The  Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), like other American authorities, have stepped up their pressure on US companies to more res...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/congressional-executive-commission-on.html

  Pix credit here   Delighted to pass along links to the articles just published in Issue 37(3) of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2024) . The volume contains two...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/just-published-hybrid-international.html

    > Revolution means carrying out class struggle, but it does not merely > mean that. The development of the productive forces is also a kind > of revolution ...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/xi-jinping-dictionarynew-quality.html

  Pix credit here   Like many critical concepts around which social relations are dependent, artificial intelligence (AI)  has assumed a symbolic significance. That is, AI has become ...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/beyond-artificial-iintelligence-as.html

  U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission held a widely publicized hearing on "China and the Middle East "  Friday, April 19, 2024  organized by the hearing co-chairs, Commissi...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/us-china-economic-and-security-review.html

  > The Greater China Legal History Seminar Series was launched in 2017. > This seminar series builds upon the success of the Chinese Customary > Law Seminar Series...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong.html

  Pix Credit here   Sitting U.S. Presidents have the luxury of getting their message out in a large variety of ways.  Writing Opinion pieces in newspapers, and especially news organs ...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/moment-of-truth-on-ukraine-and-israel.html

  Pix Credit here   A generation ago it used to be something of a sport to time the transposition of EU directives into the national legal orders of Member States.  In the old days, p...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/ropes-grey-csrd-transpoition-tracker.html

  > 图为2024年3月14日，青海盐湖工业股份有限公司钾肥分公司的采盐船在盐湖作业。 > 新华社记者 陈杰/摄 The picture shows a salt mining ship of >...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/party-committee-of-state-owned-assets.html

  There are a number of quite interesting articles in the most recent issue of Qiushi 《求是》2024(8). In addition to their substance, there is much to be learned by the choices of what wa...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/interesting-articles-recently-published.html

    I was delighted to have been able to attend Keren Wang's presentation entitled "Constitutional Dynamics in China-Taiwan Relations: A Historical and Comparative Analysis" prepared for...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/keren-wang-constitutional-dynamics-in.html

  Pix Credit here (1954, Concentrate the Major Force in Developing Heavy Industry)   The issue of the identification of productive forces, and their instrumentalization towards the fun...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/chen-kaihua-guo-rui-facing-digital-and.html

   I am delighted to pass along the link to the video recording of my “'You can’t stop the signal': From the past to the future of digitally mediated sustainability due diligence?" w...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/video-recording-now-available-online.html

  Pix Credit here In a quite interesting case, the European Court of Human Rights issued its opinion and judgment in  Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (ECHR 087 ...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/verein-klimaseniorinnen-schweiz-and.html

  Pix credit here   The question of the photograph has been at the center of modernity, and now deeply embedded in the reconsideration of the intersubjectivity of the person (and social...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/mauricio-lissovsky-fotografia-e-seus.html

Pix Credit New York Times One of the great sub-texts of the US presidential elections scheduled for November 2024 revolves around the application and consequences of the US Insurrection Act-...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/from-american-law-institute-principles.html

   I was delighted to have been invited to participate in the Asser Institute: Center for International and European Law & University of Amsterdam Law School- Technologies of sustainabilit...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/online-lecture-you-cant-stop-signal.html

  The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced distribution of a new publication emerging from the OHCHR's excellent Accountability and Remedy Project (ARP) . It is en...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/new-publication-access-to-remedy-in.html

  I am delighted to pass along information about the Asser Institute Center for International and European Law 2024 Spring Academy: Technologies of sustainability due diligence: Digital too...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/asser-institute-center-for.html

  Pix credit here  One can only marvel at the energy to which people (natural and legal; individual and collective) are capable of putting into an objective born, to some extent, of spit...

https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/high-season-for-business-and-human.html