Business and Human Rights/Sustainability Studies
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
白 轲 [Larry Catá Backer], 西方反腐领域新举措，从“各自为政“到“一股合力“ 58(2):17-30 吉林大学社会科学学报 — [Sword One Thrust Strategy” to Combat Criminal Corruption: Corporate Compliance, Prosecutorial Discretion, and Sovereign Investor Oversight, Jilin University Journal of Social Science] 58(2):17-30 (2018) (ISSN 0257-2834; DOI 10.15939/j.jujsse.2018.02.fx2). DOWNLOAD MANUSCRIPT HERE: 从“各自为政”到“一股合力”，（西方）反腐领域新举措：企业合规法律制度，公诉人自由裁量权以及国家主权投资人制度
“The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Financial Institutions For the Conduct of their Borrowers: The View From International Law Standards,” Lewis & Clark Law Review 21(4):881-919 (2017) DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: LCB_21_4_Article_1_Backer
“Sovereign Wealth Funds, Capacity Building, Development and Governance,” Wake Forest Law Review 52(4):735-780 (2017); DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer_Backerinlaw2017
Shaping a Global Law for Business Enterprises: Framing Principles and the Promise of a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights, North Carolina Journal of International Law 42(2): 417-504 (2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: REV_Backer_2AE1_CLEAN
Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones, Santa Clara Journal of International Law4(1):297-332 (2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones
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
Moving Forward the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Between Enterprise Social Norm, State Domestic Legal Orders, and the Treaty Law That Might Bind Them All, Fordham Int’l L.J. 38:457 (2015) DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: FILJ_Backer_MovingForward
Regulating Multinational Corporations — Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, Brown Journal of World Affairs 22(1):153-173 (2015) Backer.pdf DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer
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))
From Institutional Misalignments to Socially Sustainable Governance: The Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nation’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” and the Construction of Inter-Systemic Global Governance, 25(1) Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 69-171 (2012). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 25McGeorgeGBDL69(2012)GenPrincpls
The United Nations’ “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Human Rights Project: On Operationalizing a Global Framework for the Regulation of Transnational Corporations, 9 Santa Clara J. Int’l Law 37 (2011). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer, 9 SCJIL 37
Remarks: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund: Between Private and Public, 40 Georgetown Journal of International Law 1271-1280 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 40GJIL1271(2009)NorwaySWFs
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
Case Note: Rights And Accountability In Development (Raid) V Das Air (21 July 2008) And Global Witness V Afrimex (28 August 2008); Small Steps Toward an Autonomous Transnational Legal System for the Regulation of Multinational Corporations, 10(1) Melbourne Journal of International Law 258-307 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 13Backer
“Multinational Corporations as Objects and Sources of Transnational Regulation,” ILSA Journal Of International & Comparative Law 14:499-523 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 14ILSAJIntl&CompL499(2007-2008)
“From Moral Obligation to International Law: Disclosure Systems, Markets and the Regulation of Multinational Corporations,” Georgetown Journal of International Law 39:591-653 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE:Georgetown Law Review – From Moral Obligation to International Law
“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
“Economic Globalization Ascendant: Four Perspectives on the Emerging Ideology of the State in the New Global Order,” Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 17(1):141-168 (2006). Published as “Globalização Econômica e Crise do Estado: um estudo em quatro perspectives”, Sequencia No. 51: 255-276 (December 2005). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 17BerkLaRazaLJ141(2006)EconGlobal
“The 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
“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,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 37:287-389 (2006). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 37ColumbHmnRtsLRev287(2006)Multinational
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