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“Social Credit “in” or “as” the Cage of Regulation of Socialist Legality,” The China Review 24(3):71-106 (2024) DOWNLOAD HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CR24.3_71-106.pdf
Larry Catá Backer, “Legal Semiotics, Globalization, and Governance,” in (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (editors)) Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (Cheltenham, Eng., Edward Elgar, 2023) 61-85. Access submission draft here
“China’s Social Credit System: Data-Driven Governance for a ‘New Era’,” Current History (September 2019). ACCESS TEXT HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/curh_118_809_209.pdf
“Next Generation Law: Data Driven Governance and Accountability Based Regulatory Systems in the West, and in Social Credit Regimes in China,” Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 28:123-172 (2018). DOWNLOAD HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/28-1-Backer.pdf
白 轲 [Larry Catá Backer], 西方反腐领域新举措，从“各自为政“到“一股合力“ 58(2):17-30 吉林大学社会科学学报 — [Sword One Thrust Strategy” to Combat Criminal Corruption: Corporate Compliance, Prosecutorial Discretion, and Sovereign Investor Oversight, Jilin University Journal of Social Science] 58(2):17-30 (2018) (ISSN 0257-2834; DOI 10.15939/j.jujsse.2018.02.fx2). DOWNLOAD MANUSCRIPT HERE: 从“各自为政”到“一股合力”，（西方）反腐领域新举措：企业合规法律制度，公诉人自由裁量权以及国家主权投资人制度
测度、评估和奖励：中国和西方建立社会信用体系的挑战？ (Measurement, Assessment and Reward: The Challenges of Establishing a Social Credit System in China and the West?) ( “互联网金融法律评论（jiflsjtu）”微信公众平台。前沿栏目·第三季第21篇（总第182篇）. (Shanghai Jiaotong University “Internet Financial Law Review (jiflsjtu)). DOWNLOAD HERE: 独家_21(182)InternetFinanceLawRev2018
Chinese Constitutionalism in the ‘New Era’: The Constitution in Emerging Idea and Practice,” Connecticut Journal of International Law 33(2):163-213 (2018). DOWNLOAD HERE: Backer 33(2)UConnJIntlL6.13.18
“Between the Judge and the Law—Judicial Independence and Authority with Chinese Characteristics,” Connecticut Journal of International Law 33(1):1-41 (2017); DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer Formatted (Final)33(1)CJIL2017
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
以“双规”制度为切入点 白 轲 王可任 著 王可任 译 邵六益 校 [Taking the “Shuanggui” system as the starting point * Bai Ke (Larry Catá Backer), Wang Keren, Wang Keren, Shao Liuyi (ed)]
The Emerging Structures of Socialist Constitutionalism With Chinese Characteristics: Extra-Judicial Detention (Laojiao and Shuanggui) and the Chinese Constitutional Order, 23(2) Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 251-341 (2014) (With Keren Wang). https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace-law/handle/1773.1/1365 DOENLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 23PRLPJ0251
Crafting a Theory of Socialist Democracy for China in the 21st Century: Considering Hu Angang’s Theory of Collective Presidency in the Context of the Emerging Chinese Constitutional State, 16(1) Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 29-82 (2014). blog.hawaii.edu/aplpj/files/2015/01/APLPJ_16.1_Backer.pdf DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: APLPJ_16.1_Backer
Larry Catá Backer, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japan, China, the U.S., and the Emerging Shape of a New World Trade Regulatory Order, 13 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 049 (2014), http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol13/iss1/6 DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: The Trans-Pacific Partnership_ Japan China the U.S. and the Em
Party, People, Government, and State: On Constitutional Values and the Legitimacy of the Chinese State-Party Rule of Law System, 30(1) Boston University International Law Journal 331-408 (2012). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 30BUIntlLJ331(2012)China
‘“中国共产党创造出世界上最活跃的发展体制” (CCP Created the World’s Most Dynamic Development System”, interview with Zhao Yining, 决策与信息（Decision and Information), 2012 Vol.12, December 2012, ISSN 1002-8129. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 22InfoDecision337China 2012
Symposium Issue: A Constitutional Court for China Within the Chinese Communist Party?: Scientific Development and a Reconsideration of the Institutional Role of the CCP, 43(3) Suffolk Law Review 593-624 (2010). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: A Const Ct for China wi the Chinese Comm Pty
“Economic Globalization Ascendant: Four Perspectives on the Emerging Ideology of the State in the New Global Order,” Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 17(1):141-168 (2006). Published as “Globalização Econômica e Crise do Estado: um estudo em quatro perspectives”, Sequencia No. 51: 255-276 (December 2005). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 17BerkLaRazaLJ141(2006)EconGlobal
“The Rule of Law, The Chinese Communist Party, and Ideological Campaigns: Sange Daibiao (the “Three Represents”), Socialist Rule of Law, and Modern Chinese Constitutionalism,” Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 16(1):29-102 (2006). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 16TransntlL&ContempPrblms29(2006)ChineseConst
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