Semiotics
Larry Catá Backer, “The Soulful Machine, the Virtual Person, and the “Human” Condition: An Encounter with Jan M. Broekman, Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversion (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023);” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 37:969–1083 (2024); ACCESS AND DOWNLOAD HERE; and HERE.
“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
“Trust platforms: The digitalization of corporate governance and the transformation of trust in polycentric space,” Regulation and Governance (2024) doi:10.1111/rego.12614 Download HERE
“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
“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
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
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
“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)
“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
“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
“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
Forward: “Constituting Nations – Veils, Disguises, Masquerades,” Penn State International Law Review 20(2):329-338 (2002). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 20(2)PSUIntlLRev329(2002)Veils
“The Führer Principle of International Law: Individual Responsibility and Collective Punishment,” Penn State International Law Review 21(3):509-567 (2003). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 21PSUIntlLRev509(2003)FuehrerPrincip
“Retaining Judicial Authority: A Preliminary Inquiry on the Dominion of Judges“, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 12(1):117-178 (2003). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 12WmMaryBillRtsJ117(2003).
“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
“Reading Entrails: Romer, VMI and the Art of Divining Equal Protection,” 32 Tulsa Law Journal361-388 (1997).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 32TulsaLJ361(1997)Reading Entrails
“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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