Cuba
Larry Catá Backer and Rafael Velázquez Pérez, “The EU to the Rescue of the Cuban Economy? The Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) and the State of Cuba-EU Economic Relations,” 21 (2021) Cuba in Transition: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 70-88. Access HERE.
Larry Catá Backer and Flora Sapio, “Popular Consultation and Referendum in the Making of Contemporary Cuban Socialist Democracy Practice and Constitutional Theory, University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 27(1):37-130 (2020). ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Popular-Consultation-and-Referendum-in-the-Making-of-Contemporary.pdf
Larry Catá Backer, Flora Sapio, and James Korman, “Popular Participation in the Constitution of the Illiberal State: An empirical Study of Popular Engagement and Constitutional Reform in Cuba and the Contours of Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0,” Emory International Law Review 34: 183-276 (2020). ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backer-sapio-korman.pdf
“The External Capitalist and Internal Marxist—The Fundamental Contradiction of Cuban Economic Reintegration in the Global Economic Order and the Role of the U.S.” Cuba in Transition: Proceedings of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 29:– (2020) DOWNLOAD ESSAY HERE: Backer_29_ASCE_ProceedingsBACKERINLAW
Central Planning Versus Markets Marxism: Their Differences and Consequences for the International Ordering of State, Law, Politics, and Economy, Connecticut Journal of International Law 32(1) :1-47 (2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: CT Journal of International Law
The Cuban Communist Party at the Center of Political and Economic Reform: Current Status and Future Reform, Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 8:71-129 (2015). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review – Vol. VIII, No. 1 – Spring 2015
The Cooperative as a Proletarian Corporation: The Global Dimensions of Property Rights and the Organization of Economic Activity in Cuba, 33 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 527-618 (2013). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer_JILB_Final_Print
Cuba And The Construction Of Alternative Global Trade Systems: ALBA And Free Trade In The Americas, 31(3) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 679-752 (2010) (with Augusto Molina Roman). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Cuba adn the Construct of Alternative Global Trade Sys
Cuba and the Development of Odious Debt Doctrine in an Age of Financial Crisis, 6 Transnational Dispute Management Journal 1 (Jan. 2009) (http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=1311). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: tdm(2009)-article003
“From Hatuey to Che: Indigenous Cuba Without Indians and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” American Indian Law Review 33(1):201-238 (2008-2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 33AmIndLRev201(2009)HatueyChe
“Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline, Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 13(2):1-84 (2025). Download HERE ; OR Access HERE.
“Odious Debt Wears Two Faces: Systemic Illegitimacy, Problems and Opportunities in Traditional Odious Debt Conceptions in Globalized Economic Regimes,” Duke Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems 70:1-46 (2007). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 70LCP1OdiousDebts2007
“Ideologies of Globalization and Sovereign Debt: Cuba and the IMF”, Penn State International Law Review 24:497-561 (2006). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 24(3)PSUIntlLRev497(2006)IdeologiesGlobal
Cuban Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: Cuban Marxism, Private Economic Collectives, and Free Market Globalism, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 14(2):337-418 (2004). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 14TransLawContempProbs337(2004)
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