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“Social Credit “in” or “as” the Cage of Regulation of Socialist Legality,” The China Review 24(3):71-106 (2024) DOWNLOAD HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CR24.3_71-106.pdf
Larry Catá Backer, “Legal Semiotics, Globalization, and Governance,” in (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (editors)) Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (Cheltenham, Eng., Edward Elgar, 2023) 61-85. Access submission draft here
Larry Catá Backer and Matthew McQuilla, “The algorithmic law of business and human rights: constructing private transnational law of ratings, social credit and accountability measures,” International Journal of Law in Context (2022), 1–19 (doi:10.1017/S1744552322000453) DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Algo_Law_Bus_HR
“The Semiotics of Consent and The American Law Institute’s Reform of the Model Penal Code’s Sexual Assault Provisions,” 1(1) (2021) Undecidables and Law: The Coimbra Journal for Legal Studies 49-83. Access HERE
Larry Catá Backer, “The Problem of the Enterprise and the Enterprise of Law: Multinational Enterprises as Polycentric Transnational Regulatory Space,” Peer Zumbasen (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (OUP, 2021)
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197547410.013.35 . Access HERE.
Larry Catá Backer and Flora Sapio, “Popular Consultation and Referendum in the Making of Contemporary Cuban Socialist Democracy Practice and Constitutional Theory, University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 27(1):37-130 (2020). ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Popular-Consultation-and-Referendum-in-the-Making-of-Contemporary.pdf
“Next Generation Law: Data Driven Governance and Accountability Based Regulatory Systems in the West, and in Social Credit Regimes in China,” Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 28:123-172 (2018). DOWNLOAD HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/28-1-Backer.pdf
“Theorizing Regulatory Governance Within its Ecology: The Structure of Management in an Age of Globalization,” Contemporary Politics 24(5):— (Special Issue (online, 2018)). DOWNLOAD PRE-PUBLICATION VERSION HERE:REV_12-2017BackerV5_CLEAN
测度、评估和奖励：中国和西方建立社会信用体系的挑战？ (Measurement, Assessment and Reward: The Challenges of Establishing a Social Credit System in China and the West?) ( “互联网金融法律评论（jiflsjtu）”微信公众平台。前沿栏目·第三季第21篇（总第182篇）. (Shanghai Jiaotong University “Internet Financial Law Review (jiflsjtu)). DOWNLOAD HERE: 独家_21(182)InternetFinanceLawRev2018
Central Planning Versus Markets Marxism: Their Differences and Consequences for the International Ordering of State, Law, Politics, and Economy, Connecticut Journal of International Law 32(1) :1-47 (2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: CT Journal of International Law
The Emerging Normative Structures of Transnational Law: Non-State Enterprises in Polycentric Asymmetric Global Orders, Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 31(1):1-52 ( 2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: BYU Journal of Public Law
The Emerging Normative Structures of Transnational Law: Non-State Enterprises in Polycentric Asymmetric Global Orders, Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 31(1):1-52 ( 2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: BYU Journal of Public Law
Are Supply Chains Transnational Legal Orders? What We Can Learn from the Rana Plaza Factory Building Collapse, UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 1(1):11-66 (Fall 2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE:Jour. Internationl, Transnat., & Comparative Law
Regulating Multinational Corporations — Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, Brown Journal of World Affairs 22(1):153-173 (2015) Backer.pdf DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer
Larry Catá Backer, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japan, China, the U.S., and the Emerging Shape of a New World Trade Regulatory Order, 13 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 049 (2014), http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol13/iss1/6 DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: The Trans-Pacific Partnership_ Japan China the U.S. and the Em
Transparency Between Norm, Technique and Property in International Law and Governance—The Example of Corporate Disclosure Regimes and Environmental Impacts, 22 Minnesota Journal of International Law 1-70 (2013). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: BACKER – Corporate Transparency (22 MINN J INTL L 1 (Winter 2013))
The Structural Characteristics of Global Law for the 21st Century: Fracture, Fluidity, Permeability, and Polycentricity, 17(2) Tilburg Law Review 177-199 (2012). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: TILR_017_02_Backer_art05
Private Actors and Public Governance Beyond the State: The Multinational Corporation, the Financial Stability Board and the Global Governance Order, 18(2) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 751 (2011). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Vol 18 Summer 2011
Cuba And The Construction Of Alternative Global Trade Systems: ALBA And Free Trade In The Americas, 31(3) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 679-752 (2010) (with Augusto Molina Roman). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Cuba adn the Construct of Alternative Global Trade Sys
Values Economics And Theology: The Contribution Of Catholic Social Thought And Its Implications For Legal Regulatory Systems, 5(2) Economics, Management, and Financial Markets 17-56 (2010). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Economics, Management, and Financial Markets Backer article only
Cuba and the Development of Odious Debt Doctrine in an Age of Financial Crisis, 6 Transnational Dispute Management Journal 1 (Jan. 2009) (http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=1311). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: tdm(2009)-article003
Theocratic Constitutionalism: An Introduction to a New Legal Global Ordering, 16(1) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 85-172 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 16IndJGlobalStub85(2009)
From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems, 113(3) Penn State Law Review 671-732 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 113PennStateLRev671(2009) updated 6-11-09
“Monitor and Manage: MiFID and Power in the Regulation of EU Financial Markets,” Yearbook of European Law 27:349-386 (Oxford U. Press, 2008); reprinted in MiFID: A Competitive Landscape (Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press (http://www.iupindia.org/default.asp), 2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Yearbook of European Law-2008-Catá Backer-349-86
“Global Panopticism: Surveillance Lawmaking by Corporations, States, and Other Entities,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 15(1):101-148 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Global Panopticism
“God(s) Over Constitutions: International and Religious Transnational Constitutionalism in the 21st Century,” Mississippi College Law Review 27:11-65 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 27MissCollLRev11(2007)God(s)OverConst
Symposium: Law and the State in the Transnational Legal Order: “Reifying Law: Understanding Law Beyond the State,” Penn State International Law Review 26(3):521-563 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Reifying Law
LatCrit Symposium, “Gendering the President Male: Executive Authority Beyond Rule of Law Constitutionalism in the American Context,” Florida International University Law Review 3(2):341-367 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: FIU Law Review Article
“From Hatuey to Che: Indigenous Cuba Without Indians and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” American Indian Law Review 33(1):201-238 (2008-2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 33AmIndLRev201(2009)HatueyChe
“The Private Law of Public Law: Public Authorities As Shareholders, Golden Shares, Sovereign Wealth Funds, And The Public Law Element In Private Choice of Law,” Tulane Law Review 82(5):1801-1868 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Tulane Law Review – Backer
“Economic Globalization and the Rise of Efficient Systems of Global Private Law Making: Wal-Mart as Global Legislator,” University of Connecticut Law Review39(4): 1739-1784 (2007). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 39(4)UConnLRev1739(2007)WalMart
“Odious Debt Wears Two Faces: Systemic Illegitimacy, Problems and Opportunities in Traditional Odious Debt Conceptions in Globalized Economic Regimes,” Duke Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems 70:1-46 (2007). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 70LCP1OdiousDebts2007
“The Autonomous Global Corporation: On the Role of Organizational Law Beyond Asset Partitioning and Legal Personality,” 41(4) Tulsa Law Journal 41(4):541-571 (2006). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 41TulsaLRev541(2006)AutonomousCorp
“Ideologies of Globalization and Sovereign Debt: Cuba and the IMF”, Penn State International Law Review 24:497-561 (2006). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 24(3)PSUIntlLRev497(2006)IdeologiesGlobal
“Emasculated Men, Effeminate Law in the United States, Zimbabwe and Malaysia,” Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 17:1 (2005). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 17YaleJLaw&Fem1(2005)EmasculMen
“Surveillance and Control: Internal, External and Governmental Monitoring of Corporate Insiders After Sarbanes-Oxley,” Michigan State Law Review 2004(2):327-440. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 2004MSULRev327(2004)SurvandControl
“Chroniclers in the Field of Cultural Production: Interpretive Conversations Between Courts and Culture,” 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 291-343 (2000).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 20BCThirdWorldLJ291(2000)Chroniclers
“Toleration, Suppression and the Public/Private Divide: Homosexuals Through Military Eyes,” 34 Tulsa Law Journal 537 (1999). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 34TulsaLRev537(1999)Military
“Altheimer Symposium on Racial Equity in the 21st Century: Culturally Significant Speech: Law, Courts, Society and Racial Equity,” 21 U. Arkansas Little Rock Law Journal 845(1999). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE:21UArk(LittleRock)LRev845(1999)CultSigSpeech
“Tweaking Facts, Speaking Judgment: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain,” 6 S. California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 611-662 (1998). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 6SoCalInterdiscLJ611(1998TweakingFacts
“Not a Zookeeper’s Culture: LatCrit Theory and the Search for Latino/a Authenticity in the U.S.,” 4 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 7-27 (1998).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 4TexHispJLPoly7 (1998)Zookeeper
“Pitied But Not Entitled’: The Normative Limitations of Scholarship Advocating Change,” 19 Western New England Law Review59-66 (1997). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 19WstrnNewEngLRev59(1997)
“Raping Sodomy and Sodomizing Rape: A Morality Tale About the Transformation of Modern Sodomy Jurisprudence,” 21(1) American Journal of Criminal Law 37-125 (1993). Download the Article HERE
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