Academic Presentations
“The Virtual Platform Within the Temples of Law: Law and Platform as Each Other’s Subject and Object.” Remarks prepared for International Symposium: The Technological Paradigm Shift in International and Transnational and European Union Law; Session on Technology and International and Transnational Legal Subjectivity, Roma Tre, Rome, Italy 29 January 2026. ACCESS THE REMARKS HERE–ENGLISH; ESPAÑOL. ACCESS PPT HERE.
“Digitization/Digitalization, CSR and Social Credit Regimes in Marxist-Leninist and Liberal Democratic Regimes,” Workshop: Transforming Market Governance in the 21st Century: The Clash of Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Credit Systems, University of Bern, 22-23 January 2026, Bern Switzerland.
“Between the Eagle, the Bear, and the Dragon and Within the Global Flows of Economic Activity: Canadian Business and Human Rights Through the Lens of National Security.” Remarks delivered at the Canadian Forum for Business and Human Rights inaugural conference, “Corporate Accountability in Canada: At the Crossroads of Scholarship, Legislation, Litigation, Policy-making, and Community Resistance.” University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 14 November 2025. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_REMARKS_V2.0__CFBHRconference_2025; ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_CanadaBHR_PPT
“Legal-Institutional Foundations for Reconstruction in a Post-Revolutionary Cuba: A Conceptual Exercise,” Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs Speaker Series, State College PA 3 November 2025. ACCESS PAPER HERE: Backer_Remarks_LegalFoundations_ASCE2025_v3 ; ACCESS PPT: Backer_Cuba_Institutional-Legal-Foundations_ASCE2025
“Legal-Institutional Foundations for Reconstruction in a Post-Revolutionary Cuba: A Conceptual Exercise,” Remarks prepared for delivery at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Miami, Florida, 25 October 2025. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_Remarks_LegalFoundations_ASCE2025; ; ACCESS PPT: Backer_Cuba_Institutional-Legal-Foundations_ASCE2025
“Coding the Rule of Code Versus Rule of Law for Blockchain Debate,” Keynote Remarks Prepared for the Session on Rule of Code vs Rule of Law, International Symposium: BlockchainGov International Symposium; Present & Future of Blockchain Governance, 25-26 September 2025; Panthéon Assas – Université Paris II, Paris France. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: BACKER_Rule_of_Code_Versus_Rule_of_Law_for_Blockchain_2025v3
“Network Sovereignties & Network Nations in global governance,” a discussion among Larry Catá Backer, Primavera di Filippi, and Sofia Cossar. Internal Workshop for BlockChain Governance working group, 24 September 2025, Panthéon Assas – Université Paris II, Paris France.
“Smart Regulation, Smart Society, Smart Courts, and Smart Party: The Ideology of Chinese Social Credit and its Dialectics.” European China Law Studies Association Annual Conference 2025, University College Cork, Cork Ireland, 20 September 2025. ACCESS PAPER HERE: Backer_SmartRegulation_ECLSA2025_v2; The PPT may be ACCESSED HERE: Backer-ECLSA-2025_SmartGovt.
“Internationalism in Multiple Tracks: The UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights Between the EU, China, and the U.S. in the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century.” Remarks delivered at the International Business and Human Rights Annual Workshop, 20th ESIL Annual Conference, “Reconstructing International Law: Structural Shifts Under the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights” 11 September 2025, Berlin, Germany. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: BACKER_ESIL_IBHRIREMARKS_v3_2025; ACCESS PPT HERE: ESIL_2025_IGBHR_BACKER
“Smart Court, Smarter Party: A Necessary but Incomplete Interpenetration.” Smart Courts in Comparative Perspective: Chinese Approaches and Global Developments Workshop. Excellent Research Support Program University of Cologne; Cologne Talks on Information Law of the Institute of Digitality at University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany 7 July 2025. ACCESS REMARKS ONLINE HERE: BACKER_Remarks_SmartCourts_Cologn2025; ACCESS PPT ONLINE HERE: Backer_SmartCourts_PPT_Cologne8July2025
“The visualization of Text and the Textualization of Image: Factual Narratives in and as Legal Discourse.” Remarks Prepared for the 25th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (Legal Evidence on the Age of Techno-Societies and Visual Jurisprudence), University of Coimbra, Portugal 9 May 2025. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_REMARKS_25IRSL.
“The Future of a Smart Society with Chinese Marxist-Leninist Characteristics: Reflections on “Opinions on Completing/Improving the Social Credit System” issued by the General Offices of the State Council and the CPCCC.” Workshop Presentation Social Credit Study Group, European China Law Studies Association Research Hub University of Cologne, Germany (virtual) 29 April 2025. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer-Opinions_CPCC-SC_SCS4-2025; ACCESS SUMMARY PAPER HERE: Reflections on 中共中央办公厅国务院办公厅关于健全社会信用体系的意见.
“Interlocking Legalities of the Chinese Presence in Latin America and Its Perception: Theory, Operationalization, and Impact in Colombia.” Presentation at Conference “The Legal Dimensions of China’s Presence in Latin America”, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (12 February 2025).
“Chinese Constitutionalism as Socialist Modernization.” Remarks delivered at the 10th Asian Constitutional Law Forum, University of Hong Kong (10 December 2024). ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Remarks1.1_ACLF_Backer_12-2024; ACCESS PPT HERE Backer_Remarks_ConstitutionModernization-12-2024.
“Revolutionary Constitutions and their Constitutionalism: The Internalization of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of Stability.” Remarks delivered at the International Scientific Conference ‘Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear’ 9 November 2024, Sofia Bulgaria. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_Remarks_RevolutionaryConstitutions; TEXT of ESSAY MAY BE ACCESSED HERE: Backer_EmotiveSemiotics_Draft_v2.0; PPT MAY BE ACCESSED HERE: Backer_RevCon_Sofia-11-2024
“Cuba—Managing a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline.” Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 2024 Annual Conference. Florida International University, Miami, Florida (19 October 2024).
“Data Governance With Ideological Characteristics: China and the U.S. in (and as) the Shadow of the Other,” European China Law Studies Association 2024 annual Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 20 September 2024, Hong Kong SAR.
Remarks: “The Chinese (Socialist) Modernization of Whole Process People’s Democracy.” The Chinese University of Hing Kong Faculty of Law. Hong Kong SAR (16 October 2024).
Workshop Presentation–“Whole Process People’s Democracy”– Public Law and Human Rights Forum, School of Law of City University of Hong Kong; “Exploring Cutting Edge Constitutional Issues in the “New Era” of China” (15 September 2024). (PPT here).
Remarks: “A Question on Chinese Modernization and the Vanguard Party” [“关于中国现代化和先锋党的问题”] Delivered at Renmin University of China, Beijing 3 September 2024. Download here.
Remarks: “Chinese Entrepreneurs as a leading force for new quality productive forces innovation” [致辞 中国企业家是新高质量生产力创新的引领力量] Delivered at the Wenzhou Entrepreneurs Forum: Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of New Quality Productive Forces (2 September 2024). Download Remarks Text here.
“’You can’t stop the signal-: From the past to the future of digitally mediated sustainability due diligence?, [Spring Academy] Technologies of sustainability due diligence: Digital tools and global value chain regulations, Asser Institute: Centre for International and European Law and the University of Amsterdam School of Law, The Hague, Netherlands (8 April 2024). ACCESS REMARKS HERE; ACCESS PPT HERE.
“The Two Towers: China, the U.S., and the Structural Characteristics of Competitive Advantage in AI Innovation,” Presentation for Conference: Cooperation, Competition, & Conflict in East Asia , William & Mary Security & Foreign Policy Initiative, Williamsburg, Virginia, 15 February 2024. Remarks text may be accessed HERE; PPT may be accessed HERE.
“Data/Governance With Ideological Characteristics: China in (and as) the Shadow of the US” Presentation at the Event: Data Governance and its Impact on U.S.-China Relations – China Focus | The Carter Center Emory University, Atlanta Georgia 26 September 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer-Demystifying-China-Data-Gov
“ESG Trouble–From the Center to the Ends of the Silk Roads–A Comparative Problématique” Presentation at the Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association 22 September 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_ESG-SocialCredit_ECLSA2023
“The Just Transitions of Risk—Human Rights, Sustainability and the ESG Wars” given at the Just Transitions Conference (University of Dundee; 7 September 2023). ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_JustTransitions_of_RisK_ESG_9-2023
“Human Rights Due Diligence in the UNGPs.”Prepared for Workshop: The current state and future trajectories of human rights due diligence laws: New Legal Norms on Human Rights Due Diligence (6 September 2023; virtual). ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_mHRDD-UNGPs-9-2023
“Inside the Cage of the System (制度的笼子里): Standards Setting, National Security Values, Tech Platforms, Regulation, and the Central Contradiction of Legality in the Current Historical Era;” Remarks delivered at the Workshop-Conference–Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong: The Domain of Standards Setting; sponsored by the HKU Law and Technology Center and the Center for Chinese Law; University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 25 August 2023. ACCESS HERE: Backer_Remarks_PPT8-2023 ; text of Remarks here: Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong
“Social Listening and Infodemic—An Epidemiology for the Body Politic,” PPT for Remarks delivered at Conference: Governance of Social Listening in the Context of Serious Health Threats; University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong SAR, 22 August 2023. ACCESS HERE: Backer_Social_Listening_UHK8-2023; text of Remarks here: Backer_Remarks_Social_Listening_Conference8-2023
“Whole Process Democracy” as Applied Constitutionalism.” Presentation at the City University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Public Law and Human Rights Forum, Hong Kong SAR, 7 June 2023. ACCESS PPT here: Backer_WholeProcessDemocracy_CityUHK-7June2023
“The Semiotics of Democracy and Ideologies of Meaning in Constitutional Orders,” presentation for the Wagner-Linares Workshop, 23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, Pontificia Università Antonianum, Rome, Italy 24 May 2023. ACCESS PPT here: Backer_Semiotics_Democracy_IASL_2023; ACCESS Abstract HERE:The Semiotics of Democracy and Ideologies of Meaning in Constitutional Orders
“The UNGP’s 2nd Pillar as Soft Public and Harder Private Law.” Presentation to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Berlin, Germany, 20 March 2023. Access PPT here: Backer_ECCHR Presentation_Berlin3-2023.
“Chinese State-Owned Companies: Congruence and Dissonance in Outbound Investment.” Presentation at Oxford University China Law Center, (Oxford, England) 16 February 2023. Access PPT here: Backer_China_SOEs_2-2023.
“The ESG Wars.”Presentation at University of Dundee (Scotland), 13 February 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: ESG Wars
“Un Somaro Piumato: Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentality.” Book Launch Event, “Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination (Springer, 2022), edited by Julien Chaisse, Jędrzej Górski, and Dini Sejko; University College London, 10 February 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: UnSomaroPiumentato_SOEs-Backer
“Climate Impacts, Labor Rights, and Pathways to Remedy.” Presentation for the Workshop: Weather and Work: How Climate Change Relates to Workers’ Rights”/Mëtéo et Travail: Comment le Changement climatique se rapporte aux droits des travailleurs, held at Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto, Canada on 8 December 2022. ACCESS PPT HERE: ClimateImpoactsLaborRights
“Russo-Ukraine War; China’s Rise; the Absent U.S., and the Future of the International Order”: PPT of Informal Remarks Delivered at the ΠΣA National Political Science Honor Society Speaker Series; Pennsylvania State University, 10 November 2022. Access PPT here.
“From 11 July 2021 to Hurricane Ian in 2022: The Transformation of Mass Protests in Cuba and its Consequences.” Remarks delivered for the Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs Fall Speaker Series; Penn State University, State College PA, 25 October 2022. ACCESS PPT HERE: Protests_Cuba
“高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜 为全面建设社会主义现代化国家而团结奋斗” [Hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics and work together to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way]. Roundtable on the Proceedings of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, 21 October 2022 (virtual). Sponsored by the Social Credit Reading Group, University of Cologne (Germany). Access here.
“Brief Reflections on the Building of a Theory and Practice of Community with a Shared Future for Mankind and Global Human Rights Governance” [建立具有人类共同未来的社区理论和实践以及全球人权治理的简要思考]; Remarks presented at a side event on the occasion of the 51st Session of the Human Rights Council. That side event, entitled “Human Rights Development in the Perspective of Community with Shared Future for Mankind” was hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and organized by Shandong University. 29 September 2022, Geneva, Switzerland. ACCESS (English and Chinese versions) HERE: Backer HumanRights as Development
“Linking People to Governing Institutions: 《中国新型政党制度》 (China‘s New Political Party System), 全过程民主 (Whole Process Democracy), and Leninist Political Parties Within Socialist Constitutional Democracy,” Presentation prepared for Workshop: Political Parties and Constitutions in Asia; St Hughes College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (23 Sept 2022). ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_WholeProcessDemocracy(9-2022); PAPER ACCESS HERE
“The Imaginaries of Regulatory Spaces in an Age of Administrative Discretion: Social Credit ‘in’ or ‘as’ the Cage of Regulation of Socialist Legality.” Hybrid Workshop: Law and Social Credit in China; University of Cologne; 19 September 2022, Cologne, Germany. Also presented at the Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark (22 September 2022). Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the ASC (Arbeitskreis sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung (Social Science Research on China)), University of Vienna, Austria, 4 November 2022. ACCESS HERE: BAcker_SCS_Cage_Regulation_9-2022
“The in/exclusiveness of law soft law instruments in international business and human rights (IBHR): Form and Function in the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights and the Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment.” IBHR IG Workshop. (IN/EX-clusiveness through the lens of International Business and Human Rights). Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law. Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands (1 September 2022).
“Social Credit in the Shadow of 全过程民主 (Whole Process Democracy), Socialist Consultative Democracy, and 《中国新型政党制度》 (China’s New Political Party System).” Presentation to the Social Credit Research Group, European China Law Hub (18 July 2022; virtual).
“Hong Kong Between Sovereignties, Autonomies, and Self-Determination.” Panels on: Law, Resistance, & Authoritarianism; Jointly Sponsored by CRN01, ALSA, CRN33, & IRC. Rage, Reckoning & Remedy: 7th Global Meeting on Law & Society. Lisbon, Portugal, 15 July 2022.
“Facilitating the Energy Transition: A Human Right and Soft Law Perspective.” 2nd Energy Transition Colloquium. Organized by the Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration of West Virginia University, USA (virtual) 16 June 2022. Access PPT here
“Rethinking Climate Change from the perspective of the 2018 proposal for a “Framework principles on human rights and the environment” (A/HRC/37/59).” Seminario International: La lucha en clave judicial frente al cambio climaático (Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot, Lorena Sales Pallarés, and Maria Chiara Marullo (organizers) Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain5 de Mayo 2022. ACCESS HERE:Backer_Seminario_Cambio Climatico2022
“Governing Platforms: Structural and Conceptual Challenges.” Prepared for Conference on Digital Platforms and Global Law organized by UNIDROIT, Roma Tre and the European Law Institute, Rome, Italy 29 April 2022. ACCESS HERE:Backer_GoverningPlatforms_UNIDROIT2022
“The business response to the Russo-Ukraine War.” Expert Panel on Ukraine-Russia Conflict’s Impact on International Business. Sponsored by the Penn State Smeal College of Business Center for Global Business Studies. University Park, PA (23 March 2022).
“‘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 “ Workshop: “Constitutional Law of Greater China” Organised by Ngoc Son Bui and the Oxford Programme in Asian Laws (Virtual; 9-10 December 2021) paper here; PPT here.
“The Algorithmic Law of Business and Human Rights: Constructing a Private Transnational Law of Ratings, Social Credit, and Accountability Measures.” Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium, HEC Paris & Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; France 2 December 2021. PPT here. Draft here .
“Robert Cover and International Law–Narrative Nudges and Nomadic Nomos.” Conference: presentation for panel on The Life and Work of Robert M. Cover, panel on Nomos and Jurisgenesis in International Law and Society, Touro Law Center, 4-5 October 2021 (available HERE).
“Conceptualizing the Emerging Structures of Transnational Governance in the Age of Sovereignty — The Hong Kong SAR 2019-2020,” for panel: “New Actors and Dynamics in Transnational Law: Moving Borders and Changing Concepts of Borders, Demos and Territory” at the 15th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, University of Warsaw (26 September 2021) (Virtual).HK_Sovereignty_ECLSA2021_Meeting
“SOEs as Investors and Human Rights – Chinese FDI in Latin America and Europe;” for Book Project Workshop: Human Rights and environmental sustainability in state-owned enterprises in Latin America and Europe; Santiago, Chile, (21 September 2021) (Virtual).ChineseSOEsHumanRightsLatinAmerica9-2021
“COVID, Control, and Complicity: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal, Political, Normative, and Markets Regimes” Interest Group on International Business and Human Rights; Workshop: International Business and Human Rights: Changes in International Lawmaking (16th Annual Conference European Society of International Law; Stockholm University) 8 September2021 (Virtual).Backer_COVID_Complicity_IGBHR_8_Sept_2021
“The Digitalization of Corporate Governance and the Transformation of Trust in Polycentric Platform Space,” for Workshop, Chinese Social Credit Study Group (organized through the University of Cologne) 31 August 2021 (Virtual).
“The 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Future of the Cuban Economic Model.” Panel on Cuban Political Economy Challenges; Conference: “COVID and the VIII Party Congress: Reforming the Cuban Economy; 31st Annual Conference of ASCE 13 August 20201 (virtual).
“Trust Platforms: The Digitalization of Corporate Governance and the Transformation of Trust in Polycentric Space,” Workshop II, The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Trust & Governance for a Special Issue of “Regulation and Governance” 30 July 2021 (Virtual).
Book Launch Roundtable: Hong Kong Between ‘One Country’ and ‘Two Systems.’ Hosted by the Coalition for Peace & Ethics 13 July 2021 (on line).
“COVID, Control, and Complicity in Rwanda: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal and Markets Regimes.” Panel Presentation: Pandemic and Challenges to International Law; ICON-S Conference 7 July 2021 (Virtual).
“Objective Subjectivities and the Simulacra of Semiotics in the New Era: Of the Simulation of Signification and of the Modeling and Objectification of Meaning Making”for The Rearguard of Subjectivity In Honor of Jan M. Broekman’s 90th Birthday; International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law — IRSL 2021 (President: Anne Wagner); Organizer: Frank Fleerackers; Hosted by the Leuven University Faculty of Law; 17-18 June 2021 (Online).
“Trust Platforms: The Digitalization of Corporate Governance and the Transformation of Trust in Polycentric Space,” In Workshop, The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Trust & Governance for a Special Issue of “Regulation and Governance” 14 May 2021 (Virtual).
“Platform Governance: Chinese Social Credit and the Reimagining of Markets in a Socialist Digital Context.” Presented at Governance and Emerging Technological Change in China, Journal of Contemporary China Special Issue Final Workshop (online), 4-5 March 2021.
“Transparency, Good Governance at the African End of China’s Silk Road—Challenges and Opportunities.” Panel on Transparency and Good Governance. Conference: , Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Addressing the Issues of Debt, Dispute Resolution, and Transparency An online conference, sponsored by the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, the University of Hong Kong Law Faculty, and the University of Victoria Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 24 February 2021. PPTs available here: Backer_BRI-Africa_Transparency-Governance2-2021.
“Entangling the Legalities of Utopia: New Terrains of Entanglement Among Traditional and Data Driven Governance.” Panel on “Invisible Drivers Behind Formal Law.” Virtual Conference: “Multiple Legalities: Conflict and Entanglement in the Global Legal Order,” sponsored by the Graduate Institute Geneva, and Humboldt University Berlin, 15 January 2021. ACCESS HERE: (1) paper; (2) PowerPoint.
“The EU to the Rescue of the Cuban Economy? the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) and the State of Cuba-EU Economic Relations.” Panel on Cuba’s External Relations. Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Virtual Conference (“Theme: Caught in a Perfect Strom?: Are Havana’s Responses Sufficient?”) 4 January 2021. ACCESS PPT HERE
“Cuba’s Response to COVID-19 and the Consequences for Cuba of the Pandemic.” Panel on Cuban Economy, Cuba-Venezuela Interactions. ASSA (American Economic Association) Virtual Conference, 3 January 2021. PPT HERE: .Backer-Gonzalez_Cuba_PandemicAEA2020
“From the Belt and Road Initiative to Social Credit Systems: Tech and Business Relations Between the US and China.” Prepared for Global China Connection Penn State Chapter Industry Expert Series (Virtual Event), Penn State Law, State College, PA 10 December 2020. PPT HERE: PSU_Presentation_ChinaBusinessTech12-2020.
“Platform Governance: Chinese Social Credit and the Reimagining of Markets in a Socialist Digital Context.” Presentation for Conference: Governance and the Emerging Technological Change in China sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies (In-East) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) 20 November 2020 (Virtual). PPT HERE: Backer_SocialCreditPlatforms_DuisbergEssen2020.
“El estado del litigio en materia de cambio climático en los EEUU” [The State of Climate Change Litigation in the USA]. Presentation for Conference (Virtual) I Congreso Italo-Español sobre la Lucha en clave judicial frente al cambio climático (First Italo-Spanish Congress on the Key Role of the Courts in the Fight Against Climate Change); Universitat Jaume I (Valencia, Spain) 19 November 2020. PPT may be accessed here: Climate_Litigation_US_2020
“COVID, Control, and Complicity in Rwanda: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal and Markets Regimes.” Presentation for Roundtable Sponsored by Penn State Law and School of International Affairs (21 October 2020 (Virtual)). PPT HERE: Backer_COVID_Complicity_Rwanda_PSLHuamnTightsSocirty_21October2020. Discussion Draft HERE.
“The Use of Data Driven Governance Tools to Develop Social Credit Like Systems for Business and Human Rights Issues (and Specifically Modern Slavery).” 4th Annual Fall Speaker Series At Penn State Law The Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (1 October 2020 12.30 – 1.30 PM Via ZOOM).
“Chinese Social Credit and Pandemic.” Panel: Case Study on Personal Data—Social Credit Scoring Models From China to Silicon Valley. Conference: 3rd Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference (2020 Theme: Data Justice: Legal and Policy Issues in Data Collection, Usage, and Ownership) (Virtual Conference sponsored by Seattle University School of Law, Perkins Coie, the Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, and Innovation Law, and SITIE) 21 August 2020.
“Cuba’s Response to COVID-19 and the Consequences for Cuba of the Pandemic.” Panel: The Cuban Economy and Prospects After COVID-19. Conference: Cuba From the Castros to COVID: An ASCE Virtual Conference. 13 August 2020 online (with Yuri Gonzalez Hernandez). Access HERE.
“International Organizations and Systemic Crisis: Sketching a Response to a Problem With Multiple Solutions.” Key4biz Executive Webinar Room 451: ‘International Organizations and Systemic Crises.’ With Fabio Bassan (Roma Tre University), Larry Catà Backer (Penn State University) and Susanna Cafaro (Università of Salento). 12 June 2020 online. Video: ‘International Organizations and Systemic Crises‘.
“Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Global Trade?” Panel: Shifting Registers in International Economic Law and Development. Conference: 2020 Annual Conference Law and Society Association; Online 29 May 2020. Access PPTs HERE: Backer_BRI_LSA_2020.
“Governance by Simulation in the Shadow of Pandemic.” Conference-Roundtable: Coronavirus and International Affairs. Organized by the Coalition for Peace & Ethics and the Research Network for Law and International Affairs, supported by Penn State School of International Affairs and Penn State Law 19 April 2020 online (Roundtable Recording may be accessed here).
“State-Based and Data-Driven: Foreign Enterprises, Social Credit, and Next Generation Law Along Chinese Silk Roads.” Workshop presentation, Florida International University College of Law, Miami, Florida, 28 January 2020.
“The Law of the Social Credit System and Data Driven Governance in China’s New Era.” Public Lecture presented at East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China 3 December 2019.
“Multinational Corporations as Objects and Sources of Transnational Law.” Delivered at the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Transnational Business Law: Erasing Borders” [Международная научно-практическая конференция “Транснациональное бизнес-право: стираем границы”] hosted by the School of Law and Public Policy, Narxoz University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 17 October 2019. DOWNLOAD POWERPOINT HERE: Kazahkstan_MNEs2019_Backer; ACCESS PAPER HERE.
“Blacklists and Social Credit Regimes in China.” Interdisciplinary symposium “Super-Scoring? Data-driven societal technologies in China and Western-style democracies as a new challenge for education.” Funded and supported by Grimme-Forschungskolleg an der Universität zu Köln and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Cologne, Germany; October 11, 2019.
“Social Credit and Foreign Enterprises Along the Silk Road.” Remarks prepared for a Lecture Delivered at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany 10 October 2019. Text may be accessed HERE.
“Black Hand [黑手]/ Red List [红名单]: China, Law and the Foreigner ; Mutual Engagements on a Global Scale.” (Submitted but not presented in person). Conference: “China’s Legal Construction Program at 40 Years – Towards an Autonomous Legal System?” sponsored by the University of Michigan Law School and Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; Ann Arbor Michigan, October 11-13, 2019
“Popular Participation, Affirmation, and Engagement in Cuban Marxist Leninist Constitutionalism.” Faculty Workshop.” Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 26 September 2019. Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs 3rd annual Fall Speakers Series, State College, PA 3 October 2019.
“Sustainability and Corruption: The Role of the Lawyer in Institutional Frameworks and Corporate Transactions.” Remarks prepared for Joint Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Business Law Forum, and the Wickwire Legal Ethics Lecture, 2019 Theme: “The ethical and professional responsibilities of business lawyers: Business, Human Rights, and the Sustainable Development Goals.” Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 26 September 2019.
“Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0—Popular Participation, Affirmation, and Engagement from Lineamientos to Cuba’s 2019 Constitution,” Panel on “Is Cuba’s Authoritarian State Changing?: Can It Inch Toward Democracy? Conference: Association of the Study of the Cuban Economy Annual Conference “Cuba – Growth or Decline? Is the Revolution Dead?”, 26 July, 2019 in Miami, Florida.
“The Democratic Constitution of Illiberal States—An Empirical Approach to Theorizing Popular Participation, Representation and Constitutional Reform in Cuba.” Panel on Cuba’s 2019 Constitution. Conference: Association of the Study of the Cuban Economy is hosting its Annual Conference “Cuba – Growth or Decline? Is the Revolution Dead?”, 25 July, 2019 in Miami, Florida.
“The Fundamental Contradiction of Cuban Socialism in the “New Era”: Economic Reintegration Preserving the Revolutionary Moment.” Panel on “Cuba in Comparative Analysis,” organized by the Association for the Study of the Cuba Economy. Conference: Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting held in Boston, MA, 27 May 2019.
“The Algorithmic Governance Contract and the (Internal) law of Production Chains.” New Governance Panel, Conference Reimagining Contract in a World of Global Value Chains, sponsored by Science Po Law School. European Law School, University of Turku, and Private Law Theory. Held at Science Po, Paris, France, 9-10 May, 2019.
“Government “Social Credit” Scores for Individuals in China and the West: Smarter Governance or Social Control?“. Lecture at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Columbus, Ohio, 12 April, 2019.
“In the Shadow of Empires—Latin American Perceptions of Development and International Law.” Panel: Diverse Perspectives on the Impact of Colonialism in International Law, sponsored by the Minorities in International Law Interest Group. Conference: American Society of International Law Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., 28 March 2019.
“The Sort of Democracy Worth Preserving and Safeguarding: Voting in the Orbits of Exogenous and Endogenous Democracy.” Panel 1B: Democracy, Voting Rights, and the Courts. Conference: 4th National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, “People of Color and the Future of Democracy.” American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. March 22, 2019.
“La debida diligencia de derechos humanos: La Empresa Universitaria/Human Rights Due Diligence: The Enterprise of the University.” Presentation and address at the University of Sevilla (Spain) Faculty of Law, Seville, Spain 21 Feb. 2019.
“The Democratic Constitution if Illiberal States: Panel: An Empirical Approach to Theorizing Popular Participation, Representation, and Constitutional Reform in Cuba.” Panel: “Popular Participation, Representation and Constitutional Reform in Cuba.” Conference “Marxist-Leninism 2.0: Theory and Practice of Emerging Socialist Democracy in China and Cuba. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 13 February 2019.
“The Emergence of Socialist Consultative Democracy for China’s New Era: Endogenous Democracy and Constitutional Legitimacy in China.” Panel: “China’s Socialist Consultative Democracy” for the Conference ” Conference: Marxist-Leninism 2.0: Theory and Practice of Emerging Socialist Democracy in China and Cuba. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 12 February 2019.
“The Problem of the Enterprise and the Enterprise of Law: Regulating the Multinational Enterprise as Entity, as a Network of Links, and as a Process of Production.” Workshop presentation. University of San Diego Law School. San Diego, California 8 February 2019.
“Making Sausages?: Internationalized Regulation of Corporate Responsibility and the Reshaping of Corporate Law Through the Lens of Human Rights.” conference “变化世界中的公司”2018 年国际学术研讨会–2018 International Symposium on The Corporation in a Changing World. Organized by and the SUFE Law School Commercial Law Center [主办:中国法学会商法学研究会 上海财经大学法学院 华东政法大学经济法学院 承办:上海财经大学法学院商法研究中心 ] and hosted by the China Commercial Law Society, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law School of Economic Law. Shanghai, China, 8 December 2018.
“The Emerging Trajectories of Chinese Constitutionalism in the ‘New Era.’” China’s Changing Constitution. Trinity College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., 15 November, 2018.
Understanding Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism. Launch Event for book, Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era. Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs. University Park, PA, 13 November 2018.
“问责时代的社会主义宪制民主.”[“Socialist Constitutional Democracy in the Age of Accountability]. 第十届“政治、法律与公共政策”年会—会议议程 [The 10th Annual Conference on “Politics, Law and Public Policy”–Agenda]. 主办单位 北京大学法治研究中心 北京大学法律经济学研究中心 重庆大学人文社会科学高等研究院. 特别鸣谢[sponsored by the Peking University Center for Rule of Law Research, the Peking University Law and Economics Research Center, and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, with special thanks to the Hong Kong Lida Group]. Peking University School of Law. Beijing, China. 27 October 2018.
Organizer of Conference, “China: Challenges and Opportunities A Conversation with Penn State and East China University of Political Science and Law Faculty” 中国：挑战与机遇 宾州州立大学与华东政法大学学者对话. Sponsored by the Coalition for Peace & Ethics, the Foundation for Law and International Affairs, and Penn State’s School of International Affairs and Law. University Park, PA, 28 September 2018.
“Socialist Constitutional Democracy in the Age of Accountability (责).” European China Law Studies Association Annual Conference. University of Turin, Turin, Italy, September 14, 2018.
“The Challenge of Preserving the Revolutionary Moment in Changing Times.” Panel: Cuba’s Political/Economic Culture in the Post-Raúl Period. Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 28th Annual Conference. Miami, Florida, 27 July 2018. Video HERE.
“Constitutional Rights and Obligations of Corporate Persons in the United States: Constitutional Methods and Mechanisms for Corporate Accountability in Business and Human Rights.” Panel on Constitutional Rights and Corporate Actors; ICON-S Conference, Hong Kong, 26 June 2018.
“Human Rights Responsibilities of Social Media Companies and Regulation/Moderation of Content: Markets, Monitoring, Accountability.” Session II: Human Rights Responsibilities of Social Media Companies and Regulation/Moderation of Content. Roundtable on Human Rights and the Business of Social Media sponsored by the Human Rights Law and Policy Forum (HRLF) of the Law Faculty of the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, 25 June 2018.
“And an Algorithm to Bind them All? Social Credit, Data Driven Governance, and the Emergence of an Operating System for Global Normative Orders.” Workshop: Entangled Legalities hosted by the Graduate Institute of Geneva and its Global Governance Center, Geneva, Switzerland, May 17, 2018.
“Where Neither Corporate Nor International Law Converge: The Multinational Enterprise and Societal Frameworks.” ASIL International Legal Theory Interest Group (ILTIG) Symposium, When Corporate and International Law Meet: Corporate Agency in a Global Context;co-organized by Durham University’s Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law (ICCL) and by the Jilin University School of Law. ASIL Tillar House, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2018.
“The Protection of the Rights of Corporations Under U.S. Constitutional Law.” Workshop presentation, East China University of Political Science and Law. Shanghai, China, 27 April 2018.
“The Structures and Ideologies of Social Credit in the U.S.” conference, 欧美国家信用法治经验及对中国的启示 [Experiences of Credit Law Practices From the U.S. and European Countries and its Implications for China], hosted by 首都师范大学 信用立法与信用评估研究中心 [Capital Normal University Research Center for Credit Law and Credit Assessment], Beijing, PRC, April 25, 2018.
“Designing an Ideal Curriculum for China’s One Belt One Road Initiative.” seminar presentation at Henan Normal University 河南师范大学 Law Faculty, Xin Xiang, Henan Province, PRC, on April 23, 2018.
“La debida diligencia de derechos humanos y las universidades/Human Rights Due Diligence and the University.” FORO: RETOS Y DESAFÍOS DE LAS EMPRESAS Y LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de derecho y Consejería Presidencial para los Derechos Humanos. Panel 5: Empresas y derechos humanos: los retos desde la Academia; Bogotá, Colombia, 20 Marzo 2018. HRDD_University_Colombia_WEBSITE VERSION3-2018
“La gobernanza multinivel en el ejercicio de la profesión legal en empresas y derechos humanos/Multilevel Governance and the exercise of the Legal Profession respecting business and Human Rights.”FORO: RETOS Y DESAFÍOS DE LAS EMPRESAS Y LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de derecho y Consejería Presidencial para los Derechos Humanos. Panel 2: El ejercicio de la profesión legal y los derechos humanos; Bogotá, Colombia, 20 Marzo 2018. Backer_BHR_LegalServ_ForoBHR3-2018.
“China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative and the New Communist International.” Panel on Governance in China and Abroad. International Conference: The Vanguard Acts: Rule of Law and Governance in China at Home and Abroad 15 March 2018; 中国的法治与国家治理：国内与国外两个视角 2018年3月15日, 会议概念文件. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 15 March 2018.
“Democratic Centralism in the Xi Jinping New Era.” The Vanguard Speaks: Round Table: Socialist Rule of Law and Governance after the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress 13 March 2018 (国内外两个视角2018年3月13日圆桌会议概念文件). Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 13 March 2018.
“The Obligation of States to Prevent Negative Effects to Human Life and Health Caused by Climate Change: The View from International Human Rights Frameworks.”ESIL Research Forum on “International Disorder and Contestation,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem 28 Feb.- 1 March 2018. BackerESILClimateChange2-2018; For Presentation Summary HERE
“Embedding Human Rights Due Diligence in the University”.” Snapshot Presentation. 6th U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerland, November 27, 2017.
“Beyond Western Approaches to Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms.” Snapshot Presentation. 6th U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerland, November 27, 2017.
“Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era–新时代中国特色社会主义思想—As the Most Important Element of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party?” Roundtable on The Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 3 November 2017.
“Corporations and the U.S. Constitution: Origin of Rights and Recent Trends.” Seminar: East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, China, 23 October 2017.
“The (In)Visible Corporation: Asset Partitioning and Corporate Personality for an Emerging Age.” Conference: The Corporation in a Changing World International Commercial Law Center, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, 21-22 October 2017.
“Governance Compliance in Business and Human Rights Across Global Production Chains.” Seminar for Alliance Manchester Business School Business and Human Rights Catalyst Initiative, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. 12 October 2017.
“The Financial Sector Responsibility for Human Rights Conduct of Borrowers: Lessons from the Extractives Sector.” Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) Speaker Series. School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., 9 October 2017.
“Measurement, Assessment and Reward: The Challenges of Building Institutionalized Social Credit and Rating Systems in China and in the West?” International Symposium on Rule of Law & Social Credit Systems. KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. September 23, 2017. Shanghai, China.
“Communicate, Assess, Reward: Social Credit Systems and the Mass Line.” Panel: The crisis of representation and the Chinese Communist Party’s “Mass Line.” Conference: 12th Annual General Conference European China Law Studies Association, Faculty of Law of the Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, August 25, 2017.
“The Algorithms of Ideology in Economic Planning: A Critical Look at Cuba’s National Economic and Social Development Plan 2030, With a Focus on the Pharma Sector.” Panel on “Cuban Economic Policies & Growth Strategies.” Conference: 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (Cuba: Navigating a Turbulent World), Miami, Florida 27 July 2017.
“One Belt One Road and RMB Internationalization—A Strategic Alliance.” Symposium On the Internationalization of the RMB: Risks and Challenges Ahead. Queen Mary University of London Centre for Commercial Law Studies in collaboration East China University of Political Science and Law, in association with the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance. London; 27 June 2017.
“Elements of the Law and Legal Systems of the United States.” Workshop on Comparative Law Systems, East China University of Political Science and Law (华东政法大学), Shanghai, China June 9, 2017.
“Monitoring, Assessment and Reward: Are there Social Credit Systems in the West?” Workshop on Social Credit, East China University of Political Science and Law (华东政法大学), Shanghai, China June 8, 2017.
“Unpacking Accountability: The Multinational Enterprise, the State, and the International Community.” Conference: Accountability and International Business Operations: Providing Justice for Corporate Violations of Human Rights, Labor and Environmental Standards. Utrecht Center for Accountability and Liability Law (Ucall) Conference 2017: University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 19, 2017.
“Transnational Legal Orders and Global Regulatory Networks.” International Francqui Symposium: Global and Transnational Law Today as part of Brussels Global Law Week. Centre Perelman de Philosophie du Droit, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, May 15, 2017.
“The Privatization of Governance: Emerging Trends and Actors.” International Conference: New International Trade and Investment Rules Between Globalization and Anti-Globalization. Pennsylvania State Law, University Park Pennsylvania, April 22, 2017.
“The Responsibilities of Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Financial Institutions to Respect Human Rights: The Example of the Extractives Sector Financing.” Mining Finance and Law Speaker Series. Western Ontario Law School, London, Ontario, Canada, March 29, 2017.
“Sovereign Wealth Funds, Capacity Building, Development, and Governance.” Conference: “The Future of Sovereign Wealth Funds.” Wake Forest Law Review, sponsor. Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 24, 2017.
“The State Owned Enterprise, the State and Normative Human Rights.” Symposium: Sovereign Conduct on the Margins of the Law: Default, Terrorism, Cybercrime, Tax Evasion and State Owned Enterprises. Organized by the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN, 17 February 2017.
“The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Financial Institutions for the Conduct of their Borrowers: The View from International Law and Standards.” Conference: 21st Annual Business Law Fall Forum Innovating Corporate Social Responsibility: From the Local to the Global, Session IV—Crafting and Implementing International CSR Standards. Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, October 7, 2016.
“The Foreigner in China: Mutual Engagements on a Global Stage.” Seminar-Workshop: The Role of Foreign Scholars in the Study of Chinese Law. Organized by the Università degli Studi L’Orientale, Napoli and Confucius Institute, Naples, Italy, September 27, 2016.
“Between the Judge and the Law—Judicial Independence and Authority with Chinese Characteristics.” Conference: 11th Annual General Conference European China Law Studies Association, Faculty of Law of the Roma TRE University, Rome, September 22, 2016.
“Embracing a 21st Century Planning Marxism Model: The Cuban Communist Party Confronts Crisis, Challenge and Change in its 7th Congress.” Conference: Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), Miami Florida, July 28, 2016.
“Commentary on Michael Strauss’s Essay: “Returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuban Control.” Conference: Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), Miami Florida, July 27, 2016.
“Globalization, Multinational Corporations, and Corruption.” Workshop Presentation: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, July 11, 2106.
“China, Law, and the Foreigner: Mutual Engagements on a Global Stage.”(中国，法律与外国人：国际舞台上的相互交融). Conference: “Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law”, Organized by Professors Xu Zhangrun and Chen Xinyu Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, July 9-10, 2016.
“Transnational Law and the Multinational Enterprise: From Legal Concept/Method Framework to Systemicity in Global Polycentric Governance Orders.” Conference: “Jessup’s Bold Proposal: Engagements with ‘Transnational Law’ after Sixty Years.” Transnational Law Institute, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London, Friday-Saturday 1-2 July 2016.
“Beyond Nation and Law: A Manifesto.” Launch Symposium, “Transnational Law: What’s in a Name.” Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, Kings College. London, England, 27 April 2016.
“A Constitutional Theory for China: From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to the Basic Law of the Chinese Party-State” University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law Faculty Workshop. London, Ontario, April 7, 2016.
“Financial Sector Responsibility for Human Rights Conduct of Borrowers:
What We can Learn From the Extractives Sector.” Mining Finance and Law Speaker Series. University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law. London, Ontario, April 7, 2016.
“Global Corporate Social Responsibility (GCSR) Standards With Cuban Characteristics: What Normalization Means for Transnational Enterprise Activity in Cuba.” Conference: Cuba & Iran: A Look at Global Trade and Development. Pace International Law Review 2016 Symposium. Pace University Law School, White Plains, New York, April 1, 2016.
“Drafting a Treaty on Business and Human Rights.” Business and Human Rights Roundtable on Roundtable on ‘International Human Rights Law and Business: Evaluating the Impact of UNGPs’. Organized by the Human Rights Interest Group, American Society of International Law. The George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., 29 March 2016.
“Theorizing Regulatory Governance Within its Ecology: The Structure of Management in an Age of Globalization.” Workshop on Regulatory Governance at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 4-5, 2016.
“The State of CSR in the United States.” Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulation: Comparative Perspectives. City University of Hong Kong, December 14, 2015.
“Rule of Law, the Chinese Communist Party Basic Line, and Judicial Reform (法治，中国共产党基本路线原则，以及司法改革). International Conference on the “Rule of Law and Judicial Reform,” sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and organized by the CASS Institute of Law. Beijing, China, December 11, 2015.
“Transnational Governance and Supply Chains In the Wake of Rana Plaza.” Public Lecture. Peking University School of Transnational Law. Shenzhen, China, December 9, 2015.
“China’s Corporate Social Responsibility with National Characteristics: Coherence and Dissonance with the Global Business and Human Rights Project
中国特色的企业社会责任：与全球商业-人权发展事业的同与异.” Workshop Presentation, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Shenzhen, China, December 8, 2015.
“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.” Roundtable on the Proposed Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, November 19, 2015.
“China’s Corporate Social Responsibility with National Characteristics: Coherence and Dissonance with the Global Business and Human Rights Project
中国特色的企业社会责任：与全球商业-人权发展事业的同与异.” Conference: Socio-Economic Rights and Global Orders: China’s Challenges, Opportunities and Contributions. Beijing Normal University, co-sponsored by FLIA. Beijing, China, October 23, 2015.
“From Constitution to Constitutionalism to Constitutionalization 论宪政化过程：宪政的形貌、神态、与统一运作构建.” Constitutional Law Workshop. East China University of Political Science and Law. Shanghai, China, Oct. 20, 2015.
“Institutionalization of Faculty Role in Shared Governance 教职员工在高校共同治理制度中所扮演的角色：宾夕法尼亚州立大学教授评议会 .” Address delivered at Chang-An University, Xi’an, China, October 19, 2015.
“The Concept of Constitutionalization in the 21st Century:
The Political Body Corporate From Formation to Normative Framework to Operationalization 论宪政化过程：宪政的形貌、神态、与统一运作构建.” Workshop Seminar, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi’an, China, October 17, 2015.
“On a Constitutional Theory for China–From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory.” Panel: “The Semiotics of Chinese Communist Party “Law” and State Law.” 10th Annual Conference European China Law Studies Association, sponsored by the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, September 25, 2015.
“Global Corporate Social Responsibility (GCSR) Standards With Cuban Characteristics: What Normalization Means for Transnational Enterprise Activity in Cuba.” Panel: “International Economic Topics.” Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 24th Annual Meeting, “Cuba—What’s Next?, Miami Florida, July 31, 2015.
“The Military, Ideological Frameworks and Familial Marxism: A Comment on Jung-chul Lee, “A Lesson from Cuba’s Party-Military Relations and a Tale of ‘Two Fronts Line’ in North Korea.” Panel: “Comparison of Cuba and North Korea in Transition.” Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 24th Annual Meeting, “Cuba—What’s Next?, Miami Florida, July 31, 2015.
“Considering a Treaty on Corporations and Human Rights: Mostly Failures But With a Glimmer of Success.” Workshop on a Treaty on Business and Human Rights. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 26, 2015.
“Trial by Fire: Rana Plaza and the Transnational Legal Order.” Panel: Transnational Legal Orders: Business and Regulatory Law CRN:36. Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, May 29, 2015.
“The Rana Plaza Fire and the Possibilities of Transnational Legal Order Theory.” Conference: Transnational Legal orders for Private Law and Business Regulation. University of California, Irvine Law School. May 13, 2015.
“Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation.” Panel: Civil Society-Led Business and Human Rights Initiatives.” Conference: Teaching Business and Human Rights Workshop. Columbia University Law School, New York, NY, May 18, 2015.
“Fractured Territories and Abstracted Terrains: Human Rights Governance Regimes Within and Beyond the State.” Conference: Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood. Colloquium hosted by the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and Convened by Hans Lindahl & Daniel Augenstein (Tilburg Law School). Stellenbosch, South Africa, March 27, 2015.
“Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones.” Panel: Corporate Social Responsibility. Conference: Critical Global Business Issues: When Theory Meets Practice, Santa Clara University School of Law and the Santa Clara Center for Global Law and Policy, Santa Clara, California, February 6-7, 2015.
“China’s Corporate Social Responsibility With National Characteristics: Coherence and Dissonance With the Global Business and Human Rights Project.” Panel: Global Perspectives on Human Rights, sponsored by the Section on International Human Rights. Conference: Association of American Law Schools 2015 Annual Conference, January 3, 2015.
“Theorizing Endogenous Democracy in the Context of the Emerging Chinese Constitutional State.” Symposium on China’s Collective Presidency and State Governance Modernization, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. December 9, 2014.
“Conceptual, Structural, and Operationalization Constraints on the Right to Remedy Under the Guiding Principles.” Remarks delivered at the parallel events session of the 3rd U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights, “Ensuring access to effective judicial & non-judicial remedies: progress, trends & recommendations”, Geneva Switzerland, 1 December 2014
“Institutionalizing Shanfang Within the Chinese Socialist Rule of Law Framework.” With Keren Wang. Panel: Socialist Democracy: Theory, Practice and Innovations. Conference: 9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association; Conference theme: “Making, Enforcing and Accessing the Law”, Sponsored in part by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 15, 2014.
“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”. Panel: Socialist Democracy: Theory, Practice and Innovations. Conference 9th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association; Conference theme: “Making, Enforcing and Accessing the Law”, Sponsored in part by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 15, 2014.
“A Lex Mercatoria for Corporate Social Responsibility Codes without the State?: On the Regulatory Character of Private Corporate Codes.“ Workshop on “Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility: Transforming voluntary corporate codes into private law obligations?”, sponsored by the University of Maastricht, the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, and the UM-HiiL Chair, Maastricht, Netherlands October 17, 2014.
“International Monitoring and Oversight: Africa’s Increasing Presence.” Conference: Africa’s Sovereign Wealth Funds: Demand, Development and Delivery. The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, United Kingdom, 5 September 2014
“The Cuban Communist Party at the Center of Political and Economic Reform”. Plenary Panel: “Cuba’s Reforms: Status and Prospects.” Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 24th Annual Meeting, “Cuba’s Perplexing Changes”, Miami Florida, July 31, 2014.
“The Concept of Constitutionalization and the Multi-Corporate Enterprise in the 21st Century—The Body Corporate From Incarnation to Ensoulment to Ministry (But Whose?).” International Seminar, Constitutionalization of the World-Power System, Organised by the Economy, Man and Society Research Department, Collège des Bernardins and the University of Paris Nanterre, held at the Collège des BERNARDINS, Paris, France, 19 and 20 June 2014.
“The Emerging Structures of Socialist Constitutionalism With Chinese Characteristics: Extra-Judicial Detention (Laojiao and Shuanggui) and the Chinese Constitutional Order.” Conference: “China-Constitution-Politics” hosted by the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs, the Penn State Center for Global Studies, Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation, Penn State Rock Ethics Institute, and the Coalition for Peace and Ethics, University Park, PA April 9, 2014.
“Privatization of Social, Cultural and Economic Rights in Southeast Asia.” Panel: Business and Human Rights in Regional Frameworks.” Conference: International Workshop, Business and Human Rights—Networks of Transnational Governance.” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 19-20, 2014. Jerusalem, Israel.
“A Review, Analysis and Suggestions for Going Forward for the Project: Jean-Philippe Robé, Antoine Lyon-Caen and Stéphane Vernac, ‘Enterprises and the Constitutionalization of the World-Power System.’” Seminar. Collège des Bernadins. Paris, France. February 6, 2014.
“Governance Polycentrism–Hierarchy and Order Without Government in Business and Human Rights Regulation.” Conference: “Contested Collisions.” Hosted by the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State” through its Project A2 “The Juridification of Dispute Settlement in International Law.” University of Bremen; Bremen Germany, January 11, 2014.
“In Defense of the State and the International Legal Order: Reflections on Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect (Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2013).” Discussant Remarks. UNOG Library Talks—Book Launch, “Human Rights Obligations of Business,” a side event at the Second Annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, 2 December 2013.
“Polycentricity in South Asian Human Rights Law: On the Strategic and Simultaneous Use of Multiple Sources of Law to Advance Human Rights Against MNCs in South Asia.” Conference: “Asia and International Law in the 21st Century: New Horizons.” Asian Society of International Law 4th Biennial Conference. New Delhi, India, November 15, 2013.
“Methodological Issues in Implementing an Internationalized Curriculum—Five Approaches to Internationalization.” Conference: “Internationalizing the Campus, College and Classroom.” Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. September 27, 2013.
“Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation.” A Festival of Ideas Conference: Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward Looking Backwards. University of West Virginia College of Law. Morgantown, West Virginia. September 23-24, 2013.
“State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate Rule of Law Constitutional System in China: The Example of Laojiao and Shuanggui.” International Conference on “The Rule of Law With Chinese Characteristics” in Transition. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, June 6, 2013.
“Whose Crisis? Secular Liberalism, the Theocratic State and the Political Consequences of Privileging Religion for Multi-Religious States.” Panel: An Existential Crisis for Secular Liberalism. Conference: 2013 Law & Society Association Annual Conference, May 31, 2013, Boston, Massachusetts
“The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japanese Strategic Diplomacy or Chinese Containment.” Workshop. The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. Tucson, AZ, March 27, 2013.
“Sovereign Wealth Funds, Global Markets and Regulatory Regimes.” Panel: Players and Interests in Global Markets. Conference: “A Market is a Market is a Market: Financial Regulation and the Role of Law in an Era of Global Finance.” 6th CLPE Conference, University of Ferrara, Osgood Hall Law School, Ferrara, Italy, November 9, 2012.
“Beyond Colonization—Programs of U.S. Legal Education Abroad by Indigenous Institutions.” Panel: Models of Internationalization. Conference: “Building Global Professionalism: Emerging Trends in International and Transnational Legal Education” Symposium hosted by the Drexel Law Review and the Drexel International Law and Human Rights Society, Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 12, 2012.
“Organizing Cuban Economic Enterprises in the Wake of the Lineamientos—Between Corporation, Cooperatives and Globalization.” Panel: Property Rights. Conference: 22st Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy: Where is Cuba Going?, Miami, Florida, Aug. 3, 2012.
“Cooperatives and Corporations; Cuban Economic Enterprises on the Cusp of Change.” Panel: What Does The Future Hold For Cuba?: The Lineamientos, Guidelines For Economic Change In Cuba, and Cuba’s VIth Congress. Conference: XXXth International Congress, Latin American Studies Association: Toward a Third Century of Independence in Latin America. San Francisco, California, May 25, 2012.
“Governance Without Government or Government With the State? The Multinational Corporation and Global Human Rights.” Workshop Presentation. Faculties of Philosophy and Law, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, May 21, 2012.
“Collisions of Societal Constitutions: Hierarchical Power Arrangements and Horizontal Effects in the Management of Human Rights Regimes?” Panel: Human Rights and Private Power. International Conference: Transnational Societal Constitutionalism, hosted by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), The International University College of Turin (IUC) and the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Torino, Italy, May 17-19, 2012.
“Institutionalizing Global Principles of Business and Human Rights: The U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights.” Workshop presentation. University of West Virginia Law School, Morgantown, West Virginia, April 19, 2012.
“Transnational Corporate Constitutionalism: The Emergence of a Constitutional Order for Economic Enterprises.” Presented for a Global Governance Debate (with Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada), “On the Tension Between Public and Private Governance in the Emerging Transnational Legal Order” sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 16, 2012.
“The Corporation as Semiosis.” Workshop: Legal Semiotics & Politics. The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law & Semiotics Roundtable. Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson Law School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 2, 2012.
“Governance Without Government or Government Without the State: An Inquiry.” Panel: From Government to Transnational Regulatory Governance. Conference: Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Regimes, Dialogue, Constitutionalization. Fifth Critical Research Laboratory in Law and Society Workshop. Osgood Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 1, 2012.
“Transparency and Business in International Environmental Law.” Workshop. Institut de Hautes Études Geneva and Universität Basil. Thun, Switzerland, Jan. 18-21, 2012.
“Global Principles of Business and Human Rights and the Sovereignty Elements of the Chinese Constitution.” Workshop. East China University of Law and Politics (华东政法大学). Shanghai, China. Oct. 19, 2011.
“Order, Discipline and Exigency”: Cuba’s VIth Party Congress, the Lineamientos (Guidelines) and Structural Change In Education, Sport and Culture?. Panel: Education and the VIth Party Congress. Conference: 21st Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy: Cuba’s Evolving Socio–Economic and Political Landscape, Miami, Florida, Aug. 5, 2011.
Global Law Schools on the U.S. Model. Panel: Transnational Legal Studies. Conference: Congreso Sobre la Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en Derecho, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Toledo, España, June 15, 2011.
Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba and ALBA’s Grannacional Projects at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights, Panel: Sources and Conditions of Economic Change in the Cuban Economy. Conference: International Cuba Symposium, Cuba Futures: Past / Present, Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 31 – April 2, 2011.
From Institutional Misalignments to Socially Sustainable Governance: The Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nation’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework and the Construction of Inter-Systemic Global Governance. Panel: The Relationship Between Human Rights Norms and Corporate Governance. Conference: The Global Impact and Implementation of Human Rights Norms, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law (co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California Sacramento Chapter, McGeorge International Law Society and the American Branch of the International Law Association), Sacramento, California, March 11, 2011.
Presentation: “On the Evolution of the United Nations’ ‘Protect-Respect-Remedy’ Project: The State, the Corporation and Human Rights in a Global Governance Context.” Co-sponsored by the UNA-USA Centre County, the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge, and the Penn State School of International Affairs. State College, PA. February 23, 2011.
O funcionário público e o Fundo de Investimento Soberanos (SWF): Quatro modelos de governança pública em busca de coerência (The Public Official and the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF): Four Models of Public Governance in Search of Coherence). 1º Seminário Internacional de Governança Pública, ENA-Brasil, Florianopolis, Santa Caterina, Brasil, Nov. 19, 2010.
Coherence in Governance System for Multinational Corporations: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, the National Contact Points, Corporate and Stakeholder Actors Between Public and Private Spheres. Panel: OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations—What Every International Lawyer Needs to Know About Possible Upcoming Changes (Section on Corporate Social Responsibility). Conference: International Bar Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, October 4, 2010.
Not Their Master’s Tools: Transnational Corporate Governance and Anti-Subordination Strategies Among Communities of Color. Panel: Critical Race Corporate Governance in a Domestic and Transnational Environment. Conference: Third National People of Color Scholarship Conference (Our Country Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era), Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, September 9, 2010.
Cuba’s Grannacional Projects at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights. Panel: Human Rights. Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 20th Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 30, 2010.
Contextualizing the New Global Charter for Ethics Within Movements for Global Governance. Panel: A New Global Charter for Ethics in the World Economy? Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility. Conference: American Bar Association Section on International Law, Spring Meeting. New York, New York, April 16, 2010.
Masculinities and Enterprise Global Governance: The OECD and Development of Transnational Norms for Enterprise Organization and Behavior. Panel: Masculinity and Manliness. Conference: 13th Annual Conference for the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 20, 2010.
The United Nations’ “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Human Rights Project: On Operationalizing a Global Framework for the Regulation of Transnational Corporations. Symposium Conference, Corporations and International Law. Panel: Protect, Respect and Remedy: Regulation of Transnational Corporations. Santa Clara University School of Law, co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, March 12, 2010.
Transnational Corporations & Transnational Regulation. Conference: Transnationalismus in Recht, Staat und Gesellschaft, Organized by University of Bremen, Collaborative Research Center 597, University of Bremen, Faculty of Law, and the Vereinigung für Rechtssoziologie (Association for Sociology of Law), Mit freundlicher Unterstutzung von: Bundesministerium der Justiz, Nolting‐Hauff‐Stiftung, DEKOMTE GmbH, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, March 4, 2010.
Transnational Corporate Constitutionalism: The U.N. Global Compact, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the Emergence of a Constitutional Order for Economic Enterprises. Symposium Conference: The Constitutionalization of the Corporate Global Sphere, Handelshojskolen (Copenhagen Business School), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 18, 2009.
The Drama of Corporate Law: Between Citizen and State From the South Sea Bubble to the Financial Crisis of 2008. Conference: Business Law and Narrative Symposium, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, Michigan, September 11, 2009.
Globalizing Cuba: ALBA and the Construction of Socialist Global Trade Systems. Panel: Legal Issues. Conference: 19th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), Cuba in a World of Uncertainty, Miami, Florida, July 31, 2009.
Cuba And The Construction Of Alternative Global Trade Systems: Alba And Free Trade In The Americas. Panel: Forging Regional Alliances Through the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). Conference: The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba, 1959-2009, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 8, 2009 (Conference organized by Queen’s University, the University of North Carolina, Boston University and the University of Havana (Cuba)).
Critical Race Theory Abroad: An Album in Seven Tracks. Roundtable Discussion: CRT in a Global Society. Conference: CRT 20: Honoring Our Past, Charting Out Future, University of Iowa College of Law, April 4, 2009.
Sovereign Wealth Funds, Private Global Governance, and Public Global Investment: The Example of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Funds. Panel: Country Studies: SWF Form and Function. Conference: Sovereign Wealth Funds, Georgetown University Law Center, March 30, 2009.
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Issues of Definition and Regulatory Reform. Comparative Law and Society Speaker Series. Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, February 26, 2009.
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Regulatory Responses to the Financial Markets Crisis. Panel: Regulatory Actors and Actions: An Assessment. Conference: Global Meltdown: Examining the Worst Global Financial and Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, February 20, 2009.
Global Economic Collapse and the Search for Sources of Values in Economic Theory: The Role of Religion From a Catholic Perspective. Panel: Socio-Economics and Faith in a Higher Power. Conference: Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 7, 2009.
Theocratic Constitutionalism. Workshop presentation. Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, Camden, New Jersey, November 3, 2008.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Legal Issues Arising From the Economic Meltdown. Staff Speaker Program. Reserve Bank of India. Mumbai, India, October 20, 2008.
The Communist Party and the Constitutional State: A Theory of Constitutionalism and the Party-State. Panel: Constitutionalism in China (Practice) (II). Conference: Constitutionalism in China in the Past 100 Years and Its Future, The Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 17, 2008.
Cuba and the Development of the Odious Debt Doctrine. Panel: Economic Topics. Conference: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 18th Annual Conference, Miami, Florida, August 4, 2008.
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Views From the U.S. and the E.U. (Fondos d’Inversió Sobirans i la EU), Colloquium presentation (in English and Spanish). Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain, June 12, 2008.
Theocratic Constitutionalism: The Evolution of Constitutionalism from Secular Universalism to Theocracy (Constitucionalisme theocràtic: Evolució del constitutcionalisme de l’universalisme secular a la teiocràcia). Colloquium presentation (in English and Spanish). Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain, June 5, 2008.
God(s) Over Constitutions: International and Religious Transnational Constitutionalism in the 21st Century. Workshop Presentation. Loyola New Orleans School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1, 2008.
The Mechanics of Perfection: Philosophy, Theology and the Perfection of American Law. Panel: Ontology and Legal Theory. Conference: Imagining Justice & Injustice, 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University, Berkeley, California, March, 29, 2008.
Gendering Rule of Law Male. Panel: Masculinity and the Constitution. Conference: Imagining Justice & Injustice, 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University, Berkeley, California, March, 29, 2008.
God(s) Over Constitutions: International and Religious Transnational Constitutionalism in the 21st Century. Panel: Constitution-Making in Complex Local Contexts. Conference: On Operationalizing Global Governance, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Indiana University—Bloomington School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, March 20, 2008.
Parallel Tracks?: Assessing Models for the Internationalization of Law School Curricula in Light of the Principles in the Carnegie Foundation’s ‘Educating Lawyers.’ Conference: International Conference on the Future of Legal Education, Georgia State University Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 23, 2008.
The State as Shareholder: Golden Shares, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and the Public Law Element in Private Choice of Law. Panel: Corporate Law. Conference: The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution, Lessons for the United States?, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, Feb. 9, 2008.
From Moral Obligation to International Law: Disclosure Systems, Markets and the Regulation of Multinational Corporations. Symposium – “Global Responsibility: Myth or Reality?”. Georgetown Journal of International Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Feb. 5, 2008.
Values Economics and Theology: The Contribution of Catholic Social Thought and its Implications for Legal Regulatory Systems. Panel: Theology and Socio-Economics; Extended Program: Socio-Economics and Economic Justice. Conference: Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York, NY, Jan. 3, 2008.
Multinational Corporations as Objects and Sources of Soft Transnational Regulation. Panel: International Law Making and Non-State Actors: Toward New Paradigms? Conference: International Law Weekend, “Toward a New Vision of International Law,” The American Branch of the International Law Association, New York, New York, October 27, 2007.
Nostalgia Written in Blood: The Noble Savage and Latin American Political Identity. Conference: 4th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 19, 2007.
Gendering the President Male: Narrowing Rule of Law Constitutionalism in the American Context. Panel: Masculinity, Manliness and the Constitution. Conference: 12th Annual LatCrit Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, October 6, 2007.
Empresas transnacionales y el desarrollo de sistemas globales de derecho privado. Lecture (Palestra) delivered at the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Núcleo de Estudos em Direito Internacional, Programa de Pesquisa, Curitiba, Brazil, May 14, 2007.
Responsabilidade Social da Empresa. Lecture (Palestra) delivered at Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Grasuação, Diretoria de Pós-Grasuação, Programa de Pós-Grasuação em Direito, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 10, 2007 (in Spanish).
Global Panopticism and Corporate Law Making. Panel: The Changing Face of Corporate Lawmaking. Conference: Democracy and the Transnational Private Sector, 13th Annual Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Conference, Indiana University—Bloomington School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, April 12, 2007.
Fides et Ratio—Faith and Reason, Jurisprudence and Theology, Law and Logos. Panel: Law and Ontology. Conference: Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities 10th Annual Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2007.
Odious Debt Wears Two Faces: Systemic Illegitimacy, Problems and Opportunities in Traditional Odious Debt Conceptions in Globalized Economic Regimes. Panel: Policing State Corruption and the Relevance of Transnational Justice Issues. Conference: Odious Debts and State Corruption. Sponsors: Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems, Duke Center for International and Comparative Law, Duke Global Capital Markets Center, and Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC, January 26, 2007.
God(s) Over Constitution. Panel: Religion, Religious Pluralism, and the Rule of Law. Conference: Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (panel sponsored by the AALS Section on Law and Religion), Washington, D.C., January 3, 2007.
Monitor and Manage: MiFID and Power in the Regulation of EU Financial Markets. Panel: Financial Services: Free Movement and Harmonization in the EU. Conference: EU Financial Services Regulation: Completing the Internal Market. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, United Kingdom, October 26, 2006 (organized by the Academy of European Law and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London) (Event 206R08, http://www.era.int).
Reifying Law: “Let Them Be Lions, But Yet Lions Under The Throne.” Faculty Workshop Presentation, Birkbeck College, Faculty of Law, University of London, London, United Kingdom, October 25, 2006.
Multinationals and the Rise of Global Systems of Private Lawmaking: The Example of Wal-Mart as Global Legislator. Panel: Wal-Mart: The New Superpower. Conference: Wal-Mart Matters, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, October 20, 2006.
Supplier Chain Discipline Among Multi National Corporations: The Rise of Private Systems of Transnational Law and Its Enforcement. Panel: Unfair Competition—The Civil and Criminal Consequences. Conference: 24st International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, September 5, 2006.
Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nation’s Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations as a Harbinger of Corporate Social Responsibility as International Law. Panel: Globalization as Dynamic Negotiation: Private Law (Dis)Ordering and Public Responses in Transborder Contexts. Conference: The Law and Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, July 7, 2006.
Developments in the International Regulation of Multi-National Corporations—The Right to Development and the Obligations of Multi-Nationals. Address at the Universidad de Barcelona, sponsored by the Facultat de Dret. Universidad de Barcelona and the University of San Diego School of Law, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, June 12, 2006.
De la producción de derecho internacional: somos todos empresarios. Panel: Perspectivas para os services juridicos e o comercio internacional. Conference: Encontro de Advocacia International, hosted by the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 3, 2006.
Derecho al desarrollo y empresas transnacionales. Panel: Cómercio Internacional e desenvolvimento. Conference: XII Encontro Internacional de Direito da América do Sul hosted by the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2, 2006.
God Over Constitution: Religiously Based Foundations and Modern Constitution-Making in the 21st Century, Panel: Human Rights. Conference: Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Ninth Annual Conference. College of Law, the Sawyer Law and Politics Program of the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, March 17, 2006.
The Limits of Judicial Engagement and the Politics of LGTB Equality. Program: Courting Justice: The Contested Role of the Courts for the Struggle for LGTB Equality. The Program on Law and Government, American University Washington School of Law, Washington, D.C., March 7, 2006.
Chinese Constitutionalism, Sange Daibiao (The “Three Represents”) and the Rule of Law. Panel: Rule of Law in China. Conference: China: Law, Finance, Security, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, February 10, 2006.
God Over Constitution: Religiously Based Foundations and Modern Constitution-Making in the 21st Century, Conference: Delaware Valley International Law Day 2005, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Institute for International Law and Policy, Philadelphia, PA, October 29, 2005.
Universalidade do Globalisação; Principio Teritorial das Empresas Multinacionais, Participação na Semana Acadêmica do Curso de Dereito, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brasil, October 18, 2005; and Palestra na Facultade de Ciencias e Educação, Universidade Federal do Espíritu Santo, Vitória, Espíritu Santo, Brasil, October 21, 2005 (in Spainsh). Presented as post-graduate seminar at the Facultade da Admninitraçâo Pública, Consultime/Univers, Vitória, Espíritu Santo, Brasil, October 22, 2005 (in Spanish).
Regulamentação Contemporânea das Empresas Multinacionais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, October 13, 2005; and Palestra na Facutade de Drieito de Curituba, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, October 19, 2005 (in Spanish).
Economic Globalization Ascendant and the Crisis of the State. Panel: Trade, Development and Economic Theory. Conference: Tenth Annual LatCrit Conference, Critical Approaches to Economic In/Justice, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 8, 2005.
Obligations of Debtor States: Globalization and Sovereignty. Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2, 2005.
The Race Effects of Emerging Integrated Global Economic Networks. Conference: People of Color, Women and the Public Corporation, Conference on Racial and Gender Equity in the Business Setting, St. John’s University, School of Law, Queens, New York, March 18, 2005.
On the Psychology and Conflicting Visions of Globalized Capital Flows and the Obligations of Debtor States. Panel: Identity, the Psyche and Legal Discourse. Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, 8th Annual Conference, University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts, Austin, Texas, March 11, 2005.
The Proposed EU Constitution and Its General Principles of Law: Solidifying a Hierarchy of Values of European Law Over the Constitution. Symposium: The Future of the New Constitution for Europe; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London (England), Jan. 12, 2005.
Rethinking Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt Under National and International Human Rights Regimes: The Trials of Slobodan Milosevich and the Responsibility of Serbia. Conference: Delaware Valley International Law Day II, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30, 2004.
Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: Corporate Social Responsibility as International Law. Plenary Panel II: Corporate Social Responsibility, Reform and Race. Second National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, America, Race and Law at the Crossroads, The George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C. (held Oct. 7-10, 2004).
Cuba and the IMF: Conflicting Visions of Globalized Capital Flows and Sovereign Debt. Panel: The International Monetary Fund, Debtor Nations and International Trade and Finance: New Issues, Problems and Solutions. Second National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, America, Race and Law at the Crossroads, The George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C. (held Oct. 7-10, 2004).
Restraining Power From Below: Protecting the Residuary Powers of the Member States Within A European Constitutional Framework. Conference: Towards A European Constitution, The Federal Trust for Education and Research, Goodenough College, London, England, July 2, 2004.
Cosmopolitan Judicial Constitutionalism and the E.U. Panel: Citizenship and Democracy. Conference: Cosmopolitanism and Europe, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, England, April 23, 2004.
Cuban Marxism, Chinese Maoism and Free Market Globalism: Can Cuba Embrace the Global Community on Its Own Terms. Symposium: Whither Goes Cuba? Prospect for Economic & Social Development, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, Feb. 6, 2004.
European Constitutionalism and the European Judiciary. Symposium: A New Constitution for Europe?; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London (England), Jan. 14, 2004.
Cuban Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: Finessing the Tensions Between Cuban Marxism and Free Market Globalism. Delaware Valley International Law Day, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 1, 2003.
Lawrence v. Texas and the Future of State Regulation of Sex, Faculty Workshop, Supreme Court Roundup, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA October 31, 2003.
Internal, External and Governmental Monitoring of Corporate Insiders After Sarbanes-Oxley. Panel: Disclosure Obligations. Conference: In the Wake of Corporate Reform: One Year in the Life of Sarbanes-Oxley: A Critical Review, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, September 19, 2003.
Corporate Surveillance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Panel: Accounting for Integrity. Conference: 21st International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, September 9, 2003.
The Duty to Monitor: The Emerging Obligation of Shareholders, Outside Lawyers and Accountants Under Federal Law. Panel: The Intersection of Race and Corporate Law. Conference: Symposium on the Intersection of Race, Corporate Law, and Economic Development, St. Johns University Law School, New York, New York, April 4, 2003.
Overcoming Law: On the Limits and Utility of Legal Deconstruction. Panel: Nietzsche and The End of Law; Conference: Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Cardozo University Law School, New York, New York, March 8, 2003.
Female Space, Male Space, Raced Space: Gender, Race, Law, Works in progress presentation, Mid-Atlantic People of Color Scholarship Conference, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, January 31, 2003.
Disciplining the Female by Proxy: The Political Economy of Intra-Masculinity and Sex Crimes. Panel: Feminism and Masculinity; Conference: Subversive Legacies: Learning From History/Constructing the Future, University of Texas Law School, Austin, Texas, November 23, 2002.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Federalizing Norms for Officers, Lawyer, and Accountant Behavior. Panel: The Role of Professionals After Enron; Conference: Enron and Its Aftermath, St. Johns University School of Law, Jamaica, New York, September 20, 2002.
Gendering Masculinity and Sex Crimes. Panel: Feminist Futures; Conference: 2002 Critical Legal Conference: The (In) Justice of Law – The Critique of Human Being and the Possibility of Politics, University of London, Birkbeck College/University of North London, London, England, September 8, 2002.
On Death and Transfiguration: Law After Deconstruction. Panel: Terminal Legality; Conference: 2002 Critical Legal Conference: The (In) Justice of Law – The Critique of Human Being and the Possibility of Politics, University of London, Birkbeck College/University of North London, London, England, September 8, 2002.
Same Sex Marriage and the Language of Religious Discourse. Panel: Same-Sex Couples in a Globalized World: National and Supra-National Considerations; Conference: Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association 2002 Joint Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, May 30, 2002.
Using Law Against Itself: Profiting From the Lessons of Bush v. Gore in the Courts. Panel: Under Attack: Democracies Across the Americas; Conference Seventh Annual LatCrit Conference: Coalitional Theory and Praxis: Social Justice Movements and the LatCrit Community, University of Oregon Law School, Portland, Oregon, May 3, 2002.
What is a City?: Sovereign Organization in the 21st Century. Panel: The Post Modern Aristotle; Conference: Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 8, 2002.
Agnus Dei: Miscausation and the Constitution of Community. Panel: inevitabilities Two: The Social and Post-Structural Thought; Conference: law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 9, 2002.
Human Rights Education in the Western Hemisphere. Works in Progress presentation; Mid-Atlantic People of Color Scholarship Conference Annual Meeting, Georgetown University School of Law, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2002.
Same Sex Marriage and the Language of Religious Discourse. Panel: Issues of Sexuality; Mid-Atlantic People of Color Scholarship Conference Annual Meeting, Georgetown University School of Law, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2002.
Human Rights and Legal Education in the Western Hemisphere: U.S. Parochialism and Latin American Hollow Universalism. Panel: Human Rights and Legal Education in the Western Hemisphere sponsored by the Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers; 2002 Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6, 2002.
In the Shadow of Nietzsche’s St. Paul: The Judge as Priest, and the Necessity of Error in Jurisprudence. Conference: British Critical Legal Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, September 8, 2001.
The Revenge Revolt: The Supreme Court Moves Toward National Parliamentary Supremacy, and the Remaking of the American Federal System. Plenary Panel: Coalition, Democracy and Community; Conference: Sixth Annual LatCrit Conference, “Latinas/os and the Americas: Centering North-South Frameworks in LatCrit Theory, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, April 28, 2001.
The Revenge Revolt: The Supreme Court Moves Toward National Parliamentary Supremacy, and the Remaking of the American Federal System. Panel on Constitutional Law and Politics; Conference: The Pennsylvania Political Science Association 62nd Annual Meeting, Dixon University Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 6, 2001.
The Four Great Errors and Constitutional Jurisprudence. Conference: Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Texas College of Liberal Arts, Austin, Texas, March 9, 2001.
Religion as the Language of Discourse of Same Sex Marriage. Conference: Same Sex Marriages, Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions, Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio, March 3, 2001.
Has the American Confederacy Risen Again?: On the Intellectual of Confederate Federalism and the European Union. Conference: Critical legal Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England, September 15, 1999.
Critical Turnings in Federalism, Understanding the Evolution of European Federalism Through the Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun. Conference: European Community Studies Association Sixth Biennial International Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1999.
Breaking the Barriers Between Comparative and International Law: The Comparative Law Project in the Twenty-First Century. Panel: New Directions in Comparative Law; Conference: American Society of International Law Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 26, 1999.
Universalism versus Particularity in International Law. Keynote Address: 1999 South-Central Regional Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 12, 1999.
Culturally Significant Speech: Law, Courts, Society and Racial Equity. Panel: Race & Culture. Conference: Altheimer Symposium on Racial Equity in eh 21st Century, University of Arkansas, Little Rock School of Law, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 26-27, 1999.
Universalism and Particularities: On the Tensions and Contradictions of ‘Bringing Human Rights Home.’ Gillis Long Poverty Law Center Distinguished Speaker; Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 5, 1998.
On the Nature of the Authoritative Voices of Judges. International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Conference on Law and Cultural Studies, Oñati, Spain, September 25, 1998.
The Many Faces of Hegemony: Patriarchy and Welfare as a Women’s Issue. Conference: 1998 Annual Meeting & Society Association, Aspen, Colorado, June 4, 1998.
Chroniclers in the Field of Cultural Production: Interpretive Conversations Between Courts and Culture. Keynote Address: 12th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium – The Sociomaterial Turn: Excavating Modernism, University of Tulsa, College of Arts and Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 7, 1998.
Tweaking Facts, Speaking Judgment: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain. Conference: Critical Legal Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, September 6, 1997.
Harmonization, Subsidiarity and Cultural Difference: An Essay on the Dynamics of Opposition Within Federative and International Legal Systems. Conference: Critical Legal Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, September 7, 1997.
Religion as Object, and the Grammar of Law. Conference: Religion and the Judicial Process: Legal Ethical and Empirical Dimensions, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 4, 1997.
Ethics in the Global Economy: What We Can We Do? Conference: Multinational Business in the 21st Century: Cultures and Transitions, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 6, 1997.
Reflections on the Law of ‘Moral and Social Disapprobation’ in Romer v. Evans: Conformity and the Political Functions of Courts in the U.S. and U.K. Panel: Queering/Querying the Law; Conference: The Letter of the Law: Law, Literature and Culture, University of Southern California, Graduate Department of English, Los Angeles, California, March 1, 1997.
Queering Theory: An Essay on the Conceit of Revolution in Law, University of Tulsa, Faculty Colloquy, College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 16, 1997.
Legal Harmonization: What Effects are Supranational Organizations Having on the Domestic Legal Systems of Member States. Panel: New Approaches to Comparative and Foreign Law, University of the Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 11-12, 1996.
Queering Theory: An Essay on the Conceit of Revolution in Law. Conference: Critical Legal Conference, University of East London, London, England, September 7, 1996.
Welfare and Social Justice Issues for People of Color. Conference: First Annual Northeastern People of Color Scholarship Conference, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 28, 1996.
British Approaches to the Regulation of Sexual Conduct, panel on International Issues in the Regulation of Sexual Conduct. Conference: Interdisciplinary Conference on the Tenth Anniversary of Bowers v. Hardwick, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1996.
The Juridical Erection of Irregular Identity: Narrative as Judgment, Jurisprudence as Excuse, and the Example of Sex Deviant Archetyping in the Courts. Conference: Interdisciplinary Conference on the Tenth Anniversary of Bowers v. Hardwick, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1996.
By Hook or By Crook: The Drive to Conformity and Assimilation in Liberal and Conservative Poor Relief Theory. Panel: Current Proposals: The Impact on Women, Children and People of Color. Conference: Hastings Women’s Law Journal Symposium, Welfare Reform: Can It Work?, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, February 3, 1996.
Welfare Reform at the Limit: The Futility of ‘Ending Welfare as We Know It.’ Panel: Apocalypse Now?: The Future of Poverty law and Lawyering in the Age of Gingrich; Conference: 1995 Annual Meeting Law & Society Association, Toronto, Canada, June 1, 1995.
Adult Consensual Sexual Non-Conformists and the Law, An Empirical Study of Enforcement and Administration in Tulsa County, Oklahoma and Los Angeles County, California. Faculty Colloquy, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, April 14, 1994.
1994 Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lecture: Medieval Poor Law in Twentieth Century America: Looking Back Towards a General Theory of Modern American Poor Relief. Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, April 14, 1994.
Of Handouts and Worthless Promises: Understanding the Conceptual Limitations of American Systems of Poor Relief. Faculty Colloquy, University of Tulsa College of Law, April 11, 1994.
Civil Wars: Stays of Execution, Appellate Sanctions and the Nature of Consensus on the Utility of Appellate Review. Faculty Colloquy, University of Tulsa College of Law, October 14, 1993.