Publications: Books (Essays Published in Books)
Revolutionary Constitutions and their Constitutionalism: The Internalization of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of Stability, in Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear: Constitutional and International Law Perspectives 103-141 (Martin Belov, ed., Routledge, 2025).
“Whole Process Democracy” as Applied Constitutionalism, in The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Constitutional Law(Guobin Zhu, Björn Ahl & Larry Catá Backer; forthcoming CUP 2025).
Human Rights Due Diligence in the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, in The Current State and Future Trajectories of Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: New Legal Norms on Human Rights Due Diligence (Larry Catá Backer and Claire Methven O’Brien, eds.; Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group forthcoming 2025).
Overcoming the Human, Rights, and the State in Human Rights Research, in A Research Agenda for Global Power Shifts and International Economic Law (Joel Slawotsky (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, forthcoming 2025).
Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe, in Human Rights and environmental sustainability in state-owned enterprises in Latin America and Europe 147-191 (Judith Schonsteiner and Markus Krajewski, eds., Routledge, 2024).
Legal Semiotics, Globalization, and Governance, in Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (eds); Edward Elgar, 2023) pp. 61-85 (ISBN 9781802207255; eISBN 9781802207262) (DOI https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207262) .
Describe, Predict, Intervene!—On Objective Subjectivities and the Simulacra of Semiotics in the New Era; Simulated Signification and of Mechanical Meaning Making in Managing Post-COVID Human Society, in Rearguards of Subjectivity (Frank Fleerackers (ed); Springer, 2023) pp. 21-62 (ISBN 978-3-031-26854-0 (hardback); ISBN978-3-031-26857-1 (softcover); ISBN 978-3-031-26855-7 (eBook)).
“The Flower of Democracy Blooms Brilliantly in China [中国的民主之花绚丽绽放]”: The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Constitutional Order, in Routledge Handbook of C Constitutional Law in China (Ngoc Son Bui, Stuart Hargreaves, Ryan Mitchell (eds); Routledge, 2022) chp. 5, pp. 67-84 (ISBN 9780367651855).
Principle 4: The Obligations of States in Markets With Respect to Enterprises Owned, Controlled, or Supported by the State, in Elgar Commentaries on the United Nations Principles of Business and Human Rights (Barnali Choudhury, ed., Edward Elgar, 2023) chp. 4, pp. 35-42 (ISBN-13: 978-1800375666).
‘Un Somaro Piumato’–Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentalities: State Owned Enterprises and State-Owner Liability in the Post-Global, Julien Chaisse, Jędrzej Górski and Dini Sejko (eds)The Regulation of State-controlled enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination 369-398(Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022).
The Problem of the Enterprise and the Enterprise of Law: Multinational Enterprises as Polycentric Transnational Regulatory Spaces, in 777-800 Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Peer Zumbansen, ed., Oxford University Press, 2021).
Schwarze Listen und Social Credit-Regime in China [Blacklists and Social Credit Regimes in China], in Super-Scoring?: Datengetriebene Sozialtechnologien als neue Bildungsherausforderung [Super-Scoring? Data-driven societal technologies as a new challenge for education] (Düsseldorf, München, kopaed publishers, 2021) (ISBN-13: 978-3867365758).
And an Algorithm to Entangle them All? Social Credit, Data Driven Governance, and Legal Entanglement in Post-Law Legal Orders, in Entangled Legalities Beyond the State 79-106 (Nico Kirsch, ed., Cambridge, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-108-84306-5 Hardback; 978-1-108-82379-1 Paperback).
Foreword: Bannermen and Heralds: The Identity of Flags; the Ensigns of Identity, in Flags, Identity, Memory: Critiquing the Public Narrative through Color v-xxvii (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek, eds., Dordrecht: Springer 2020) (ISBN 978-3-030-32865-8) (the volume is the recipient of the Gheradis Davis Prize 2021 (University of Texas Law School)).
China, in Tipping Points in International Law: Critique and Commitment 52-73 (Jean d’Aspremont, and John Haskell eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021) (ISBN 978 1108 84510 6).
The Cri de Jessup Sixty Years Later: Transnational Law’s Intangible Objects and Abstracted Frameworks Beyond Nation, Enterprise, and Law, in The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup’s Bold Proposal 386-418 (Peer Zumbansen (ed.), Cambridge UP, 2020) (ISBN: 9781108490269).
La debida diligencia en las universidades, in Retos y Desafíos de las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos (Carolina Olarte-Báceres, Catalina Irisarri Boada y Laura Arenas Peralta, eds.; Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y Grupo Editorial Ibañez) (ISBN 978-958-749-000-0).
From the Social to the Human Rights of Labor: Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Art. 23, the ILO, and Working Rights Principles, in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Commentary (Humberto Cantú Rivera (ed.), Brill/Nijhoff, 2020 (forthcoming)), pp. 533-565.
Human Rights Responsibilities of State-Owned Enterprises, in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business 223-244 (Surya Deva and David Birchall (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2020) (ISBN: 978 1 78643 639 9; eISBN: 978 1 78643 640 5).
Reintegrating Cuba into the Global Economy: Stasis and the European Alternative, in The Cuba-U.S. Bilateral Relationship: New Pathways & Policy Choices 289-333 (Michael J. Kelly, Erika Moreno, and Richard C. Witmer, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019).
Unpacking Accountability in Business and Human Rights: The Multinational Enterprise, the State, and the International Community, in Accountability and International Business Organizations: Providing Justice for Corporate Violations of Human Rights, Labor, and Environmental Standards 60-85 (Liesbeth Enneking, et al., eds. Routledge, 2020) (ISBN 978-0-8153-5683-7.
The Arc of Triumph and Transformation of the OECD Guidelines: Quo Vadis Triumph into An Era of Transformation! Triumphi quo vadis? Temporibus transmutatio parere, in OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: A Glass Half Full (Liber Amicorum for Dr. Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct 2013-2018) pp. 43-50 (Paris: OECD, 2018).
From Guiding Principles to Interpretive Organizations: Developing a Framework for Applying the UNGPs to Disputes that Institutionalizes the Advocacy Role of Civil Society, in Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning 97-110 (César Rodríguez Garavito, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1-107-17529-7.
Pragmatism Without Principle?: How a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights Ought to be Framed, Why It Can’t, and the Dangers of the Pragmatic Turn in Treaty Crafting in Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours 105-130 (Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017). ISBN 978-1-107-19911-8 (hrbk).
The Cuban Communist Party at the Cusp of Change in Reforming Communism: Cuba in a Comparative Perspective 157-191 (Scott Morgenstern and Jorge Pérez López, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). ISBN 978-0-8229-6549-7.
Considering a Treaty on Corporations and Human Rights: Mostly Failures But With a Glimmer of Success, in The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty 87-110 (Nicolás Carillo-Santarelli and Jernej Letnar Cernic, eds., Intersentia, 2018) ISBN 978-1780684918 hrdbk).
The Evolving Relationship Between TNCs and Political Actors and Governments, in Research Handbook on Transnational Corporations 82-116 (Alice de Jonge and Roman Tomasic, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017). ISBN: 978 1 78347 690 9.
The Concept of Constitutionalization and the Multi-Corporate Enterprise in the 21st Century: From Body Corporate to Sovereign Enterprise in Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System 170-189 (Jean-Philippe Robé, Antoine Lyon-Caen, and Stéphane Vernac, eds., Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2016) ISBN: 978-1-4724-8292-1 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-315-596334 (ebk).
If You Want to Change Societal Norms You have to Change Society: Michael Olivas and ‘Constitutional Criteria’ in Managing Higher Education Admissions Decisions, in The Accidental Historian: The Michael Olivas Reader (Ediberto Roman, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2017).ISBN: 978-1-61163-686-4.
Philanthropy and the Character of the Public Research University—The Intersections of Private Giving, Institutional Autonomy, and Shared Governance in Facilitating Higher Education Growth through Fundraising and Philanthropy 28-58 (H. C. Alphin Jr., J. Lavine, S. E. Stark & A.Hocke, eds., Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016) (with Nabih Haddad) ISBN13: 9781466696648.
Regulating Global Markets: What we Might Learn From Sovereign Wealth Funds, in Reshaping Markets: Economic Governance, The Global Financial Crisis, and Liberal Utopia 229-254 (Bertram Lomfield, Alessandro Somma and Peer Zumbansen, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016). ISBN-13: 978-1107095908.
Governance Polycentrism or Regulated Self-Regulation—Rule Systems for Human Rights Impacts of Economic Activity Where National, Private and International Regimes Collide, Contested Collisions: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Norm Fragmentation in World Society 198-225 (Kerstin Blome, Hannah Franzki, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Nora Markard and Stefan Oeter, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016). ISBN 978-1-107-12657-2.
China’s Corporate Social Responsibility With National Characteristics: Coherence and Dissonance With the Global Business and Human Rights Project, in Human Rights and Business: Moving Forward, Looking Back 530-558 (Jena Martin and Karen Erica Bravo, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2015)). ISBN 9781107095526
Democratizing the Global Business and Human Rights Project by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation From the Bottom Up, in Human Rights and Business: Moving Forward, Looking Back 254-287 (Jena Martin and Karen Erica Bravo, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2015)) (With Keren Wang, Nabih Haddad and Tomonori Teraoka). ISBN 9781107095526.
The Role of Companies in Privatizing Socio-Economic Rights in India and China Under Emerging Global Regulatory Frameworks, in Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Comparative Insights from India and China44-70 (Surya Deva, ed., London: Routledge, 2015). ISBN 978-0-415-735070.
SWFs in Five Continents and Three Narratives: Similarities and Differences, in Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law 57-98 (Fabio Bassan, ed., Cheltenham, Eng.: Edward Elgar, 2015). ISBN 978-78195-519-2.
Transparency and Business in International Law, in Transparency in International Law 477-501(Anne Peters and Andrea Bianchi, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). ISBN 978-1-107-02138-9.
Governance Without Government: An Overview, in Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization 87-123 (Günther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, Peer Zumbansen, editors, Leiden, Netherlands & Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012). ISBN 978-90-04-18647-7; ISSN 1877-4822
Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights, in Handbook on Contemporary Cuba: Economy, Civil Society, and Globalization 287-299 (Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riobó, eds., New York: CUNY/Paradigm Press, forthcoming 2013). ISBN 978-1-61205-225-0 (hardcover); 978-1-61205-226-7 (library e-book).
共產黨與中國式的憲政體制— 一黨專政下的憲政發展理論，in 百年宪政与中国宪政的未来 (百年憲政與中國憲政的未來)（Communist Party and Chinese-style constitutional system – the one-party dictatorship under the theory of constitutional development), in Constitutionalism in China in the Last 100 Years and Its Future (in Chinese)), (九章 –Chapter 9) (LIN Feng, ed., 香港城市大学出版社 (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2011) (ISBN 978-962-937-177-7).
Inter-Systemic Harmonization and Its Challenges for the Legal-State, in The Law of the Future and the Future of the Law 427-437 (Editors: Sam Muller, Stavros Zouridis, Morly Frishman and Laura Kistemaker; Oslo: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2011) (FICHL Publication Series No. 11 (2011)) (ISBN 978-82-93081-27-2). Available at http://www.fichl.org/fileadmin/fichl/documents/FICHL_11_Web.pdf.
From Colonies to Collective: ALBA, Latin American Integration, and the Construction of Regional Political Power, Routledge Handbook on Diplomacy and Statecraft 325-337 (B.J.C. McKercher, ed., London: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2012) (ISBN 978-0-415-78110-7).
The Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye: The Ironic Story of Santeria in the United States, in Law and Religion: in Law And Religion: Cases in Context 127-149 (Leslie Griffin, et al., eds., Aspen Press, 2010). ISBN13: 9780735578197.
Internationalizing the American Law School Curriculum (in Light of the Carnegie Foundation’s Report), in The Internationalization of Law and Legal Education 49-112 (Jan Klabbers and Mortimer Sellers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2008) (2 Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (Mortimer Sellers series ed.) ISBN 978-4020-9493-4; e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9494-1.
The Mechanics of Perfection: Philosophy, Theology and the Foundations of American Law, in On Philosophy in American Law 44-52 (Francis J. Mootz, Jr., ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). ISBN-13: 9780521883689.
There Can be Only One: Law, Religion, Grammar and The Organization of Society in the United States in Law and Religion: A Critical Reader 425-463 (Stephen M. Feldman, ed., 2000). ISBN-10: 0814726798 ; ISBN-13: 978-0814726792.
Queering Theory: An Essay on the Conceit of Revolution in Law, in Legal Queeries: Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies 185-203 (Leslie J. Moran, et al. eds., London: Cassell, 1998) (ISBN 978-0304338641).