{"id":2761,"date":"2025-06-16T23:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/?page_id=2761"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:52:54","slug":"larry-cata-backer-cv-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/larry-cata-backer-cv-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Publications: Books (Essays Published in Books)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Revolutionary Constitutions and their Constitutionalism: The Internalization of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of Stability<\/em>, in Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear: Constitutional and International Law Perspectives 103-141 (Martin Belov, ed., Routledge, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhole Process Democracy\u201d as Applied Constitutionalism<\/em>, in The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Constitutional Law(Guobin Zhu, Bj\u00f6rn Ahl & Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer; forthcoming CUP 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Rights Due Diligence in the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, in <\/em>The Current State and Future Trajectories of Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: New Legal Norms on Human Rights Due Diligence (Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer and Claire Methven O\u2019Brien, eds.; Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overcoming the Human, Rights, and the State in Human Rights Research, in<\/em> A Research Agenda for Global Power Shifts and International Economic Law (Joel Slawotsky (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese State-Owned Companies <\/em>and Investment in Latin America and Europe<\/em>, in Human Rights and environmental sustainability in state-owned enterprises in Latin America and Europe 147-191 (Judith Schonsteiner and Markus Krajewski, eds., Routledge, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legal Semiotics, Globalization, and Governance,<\/em> in Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (eds); Edward Elgar, 2023) pp. 61-85 (ISBN 9781802207255; eISBN     9781802207262) (DOI https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4337\/9781802207262<\/a>) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describe, Predict, Intervene!\u2014On Objective Subjectivities and the Simulacra of Semiotics in the New Era; Simulated Signification and of Mechanical Meaning Making in Managing Post-COVID Human Society<\/em>, in Rearguards of Subjectivity (Frank Fleerackers (ed); Springer, 2023) pp. 21-62 (ISBN 978-3-031-26854-0 (hardback); ISBN978-3-031-26857-1 (softcover); ISBN 978-3-031-26855-7 (eBook)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Flower of Democracy Blooms Brilliantly in China [<\/em>\u4e2d\u56fd\u7684\u6c11\u4e3b\u4e4b\u82b1\u7eda\u4e3d\u7efd\u653e<\/em>]\u201d: The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Constitutional Order<\/em>, in Routledge Handbook of C Constitutional Law in China (Ngoc Son Bui, Stuart Hargreaves, Ryan Mitchell (eds); Routledge, 2022) chp. 5, pp. 67-84 (ISBN 9780367651855).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principle 4: The Obligations of States in Markets With Respect to Enterprises Owned, Controlled, or Supported by the State<\/em>, in Elgar Commentaries on the United Nations Principles of Business and Human Rights (Barnali Choudhury, ed., Edward Elgar, 2023) chp. 4, pp. 35-42 (ISBN-13: 978-1800375666).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Un Somaro Piumato\u2019–Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentalities: State Owned Enterprises and State-Owner Liability in the Post-Global<\/em>, Julien Chaisse, J\u0119drzej G\u00f3rski and Dini Sejko (eds)The Regulation of State-controlled enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination 369-398(Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Problem of the Enterprise and the Enterprise of Law: Multinational Enterprises as Polycentric Transnational Regulatory Spaces, in <\/em>777-800 Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Peer Zumbansen, ed., Oxford University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schwarze Listen und Social Credit-Regime in China [Blacklists and Social Credit Regimes in China]<\/em>, in Super-Scoring?: Datengetriebene Sozialtechnologien als neue Bildungsherausforderung [Super-Scoring? Data-driven societal technologies as a new challenge for education] (D\u00fcsseldorf, M\u00fcnchen, kopaed publishers, 2021) (ISBN-13: 978-3867365758).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And an Algorithm to Entangle them All? Social Credit, Data Driven Governance, and Legal Entanglement in Post-Law Legal Orders<\/em>, in Entangled Legalities Beyond the State 79-106 (Nico Kirsch, ed., Cambridge, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-108-84306-5 Hardback; 978-1-108-82379-1 Paperback).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreword: Bannermen and Heralds: The Identity of Flags; the Ensigns of Identity<\/em>, in Flags, Identity, Memory: Critiquing the Public Narrative through Color v-xxvii (Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek, eds., Dordrecht: Springer 2020) (ISBN 978-3-030-32865-8) (the volume is the  recipient of the Gheradis Davis Prize 2021 (University of Texas Law School)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China<\/em>, in Tipping Points in International Law: Critique and Commitment 52-73 (Jean d\u2019Aspremont, and John Haskell eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021) (ISBN 978 1108 84510 6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cri de Jessup Sixty Years Later: Transnational Law\u2019s Intangible Objects and Abstracted Frameworks Beyond Nation, Enterprise, and Law, in <\/em>The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup’s Bold Proposal 386-418 (Peer Zumbansen (ed.), Cambridge UP, 2020) (ISBN: 9781108490269).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 La debida diligencia en las universidades, <\/em>in Retos y Desaf\u00edos de las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos (Carolina Olarte-B\u00e1ceres, Catalina Irisarri Boada y Laura Arenas Peralta, eds.; Bogot\u00e1: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y Grupo Editorial Iba\u00f1ez) (ISBN 978-958-749-000-0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Social to the Human Rights of Labor: Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Art. 23, the ILO, and Working Rights Principles<\/em>, in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Commentary (Humberto Cant\u00fa Rivera (ed.), Brill\/Nijhoff, 2020 (forthcoming)), pp. 533-565.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Rights Responsibilities of State-Owned Enterprises, in <\/em>Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business 223-244 (Surya Deva and David Birchall (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2020) (ISBN: 978 1 78643 639 9; eISBN: 978 1 78643 640 5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reintegrating Cuba into the Global Economy: Stasis and the European Alternative, in <\/em>The Cuba-U.S. Bilateral Relationship: New Pathways & Policy Choices 289-333 (Michael J. Kelly,  Erika Moreno, and  Richard C. Witmer, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unpacking Accountability in Business and Human Rights: The Multinational Enterprise, the State, and the International Community, in <\/em>Accountability and International Business Organizations: Providing Justice for Corporate Violations of Human Rights, Labor, and Environmental Standards 60-85 (Liesbeth Enneking, et al., eds. Routledge, 2020) (ISBN 978-0-8153-5683-7.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Arc of Triumph and Transformation of the OECD Guidelines: Quo Vadis Triumph into An Era of Transformation! Triumphi quo vadis? Temporibus transmutatio parere, in<\/em> OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: A Glass Half Full (Liber Amicorum for Dr. Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct 2013-2018) pp. 43-50 (Paris: OECD, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Guiding Principles to Interpretive Organizations: Developing a Framework for Applying the UNGPs to Disputes that Institutionalizes the Advocacy Role of Civil Society, in <\/em>Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning 97-110 (C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1-107-17529-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pragmatism Without Principle?: How a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights Ought to be Framed, Why It Can\u2019t, and the Dangers of the Pragmatic Turn in Treaty Crafting in<\/em> Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours 105-130 (Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017). ISBN 978-1-107-19911-8 (hrbk).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cuban Communist Party at the Cusp of Change<\/em> in Reforming Communism: Cuba in a Comparative Perspective 157-191  <\/em>(Scott Morgenstern and Jorge P\u00e9rez L\u00f3pez, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).  ISBN 978-0-8229-6549-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering a Treaty on Corporations and Human Rights: Mostly Failures But With a Glimmer of Success, <\/em>in The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty 87-110 (Nicol\u00e1s Carillo-Santarelli and Jernej Letnar Cernic, eds., Intersentia, 2018) ISBN 978-1780684918 hrdbk).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Evolving Relationship Between TNCs and Political Actors and Governments, in <\/em>Research Handbook on Transnational Corporations 82-116 (Alice de Jonge and Roman Tomasic, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017). ISBN: 978 1 78347 690 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Concept of Constitutionalization and the Multi-Corporate Enterprise in the 21st Century: From Body Corporate to Sovereign Enterprise <\/em>in Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System 170-189 (Jean-Philippe Rob\u00e9, Antoine Lyon-Caen, and St\u00e9phane Vernac, eds., Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2016) ISBN: 978-1-4724-8292-1 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-315-596334 (ebk).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If You Want to Change Societal Norms You have to Change Society: Michael Olivas and \u2018Constitutional Criteria\u2019 in Managing Higher Education Admissions Decisions, in <\/em>The Accidental Historian: The Michael Olivas Reader (Ediberto Roman, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2017).ISBN: 978-1-61163-686-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philanthropy and the Character of the Public Research University\u2014The Intersections of Private Giving, Institutional Autonomy, and Shared Governance in <\/em>Facilitating Higher Education Growth through Fundraising and Philanthropy 28-58 (H. C. Alphin Jr., J. Lavine, S. E. Stark & A.Hocke, eds., Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016) (with Nabih Haddad) ISBN13: 9781466696648.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regulating Global Markets: What we Might Learn From Sovereign Wealth Funds, in <\/em>Reshaping Markets: Economic Governance, The Global Financial Crisis, and Liberal Utopia 229-254 (Bertram Lomfield, Alessandro Somma and Peer Zumbansen, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016). ISBN-13: 978-1107095908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governance Polycentrism or Regulated Self-Regulation\u2014Rule Systems for Human Rights Impacts of Economic Activity Where National, Private and International Regimes Collide, <\/em>Contested Collisions: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Norm Fragmentation in World Society 198-225 (Kerstin Blome, Hannah Franzki, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Nora Markard and Stefan Oeter, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016). ISBN 978-1-107-12657-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility With National Characteristics: Coherence and Dissonance With the Global Business and Human Rights Project, <\/em>in Human Rights and Business:  Moving Forward, Looking Back 530-558 (Jena Martin and Karen Erica Bravo, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2015)). ISBN 9781107095526<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratizing the Global Business and Human Rights Project by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation From the Bottom Up,<\/em> in Human Rights and Business:  Moving Forward, Looking Back 254-287 (Jena Martin and Karen Erica Bravo, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2015)) (With Keren Wang, Nabih Haddad and Tomonori Teraoka). ISBN 9781107095526.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Role of Companies in Privatizing Socio-Economic Rights in India and China Under Emerging Global Regulatory Frameworks<\/em>, <\/em>in Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Comparative Insights from India and China44-70 (Surya Deva, ed., London: Routledge, 2015). ISBN 978-0-415-735070.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SWFs in Five Continents and Three Narratives: Similarities and Differences, in<\/em> Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law  57-98 (Fabio Bassan, ed., Cheltenham, Eng.: Edward Elgar, 2015). ISBN 978-78195-519-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Business in International Law, in <\/em>Transparency in International Law 477-501(Anne Peters and Andrea Bianchi, eds., Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2013). ISBN 978-1-107-02138-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governance Without Government:  An Overview, in<\/em> Beyond Territoriality:  Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization 87-123 (G\u00fcnther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, Peer Zumbansen, editors, Leiden, Netherlands & Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012). ISBN 978-90-04-18647-7; ISSN 1877-4822<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights, in<\/em> Handbook on Contemporary Cuba: Economy, Civil Society, and Globalization 287-299 (Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riob\u00f3, eds., New York: CUNY\/Paradigm Press, forthcoming 2013). ISBN 978-1-61205-225-0 (hardcover); 978-1-61205-226-7 (library e-book).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u5171\u7522\u9ee8\u8207\u4e2d\u570b\u5f0f\u7684\u61b2\u653f\u9ad4\u5236\u2014 \u4e00\u9ee8\u5c08\u653f\u4e0b\u7684\u61b2\u653f\u767c\u5c55\u7406\u8ad6\uff0cin<\/em> \u767e\u5e74\u5baa\u653f\u4e0e\u4e2d\u56fd\u5baa\u653f\u7684\u672a\u6765 (\u767e\u5e74\u61b2\u653f\u8207\u4e2d\u570b\u61b2\u653f\u7684\u672a\u4f86)\uff08Communist Party and Chinese-style constitutional system – the one-party dictatorship under the theory of constitutional development<\/em>), in Constitutionalism in China in the Last 100 Years and Its Future (in Chinese)), (\u4e5d\u7ae0 \u2013Chapter 9)  (LIN Feng, ed., \u9999\u6e2f\u57ce\u5e02\u5927\u5b66\u51fa\u7248\u793e (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2011) (ISBN 978-962-937-177-7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inter-Systemic Harmonization and Its Challenges for the Legal-State, in<\/em> The Law of the Future and the Future of the Law <\/em>427-437 (Editors: Sam Muller, Stavros Zouridis, Morly Frishman and Laura Kistemaker; Oslo: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2011) (FICHL Publication Series No. 11 (2011))  (ISBN 978-82-93081-27-2). Available at http:\/\/www.fichl.org\/fileadmin\/fichl\/documents\/FICHL_11_Web.pdf<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Colonies to Collective:  ALBA, Latin American Integration, and the Construction of Regional Political Power<\/em>, Routledge Handbook on Diplomacy and Statecraft 325-337 (B.J.C. McKercher, ed., London:  Taylor & Francis\/Routledge, 2012) (ISBN 978-0-415-78110-7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye:  The Ironic Story of Santeria in the United States, in Law and Religion: in Law And Religion: Cases in Context 127-149 (Leslie Griffin, et al., eds.,  Aspen Press, 2010). ISBN13: 9780735578197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internationalizing the American Law School Curriculum (in Light of the Carnegie Foundation\u2019s Report),<\/em> in<\/em> The Internationalization of Law and Legal Education 49-112 (Jan Klabbers and Mortimer Sellers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2008) (2 Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (Mortimer Sellers series ed.) ISBN 978-4020-9493-4; e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9494-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mechanics of Perfection:  Philosophy, Theology and the Foundations of American Law, in On Philosophy in American Law 44-52 (Francis J. Mootz, Jr., ed., Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2009). ISBN-13: 9780521883689.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There Can be Only One: Law, Religion, Grammar and The Organization of Society in the United States in<\/em> Law and Religion: A Critical Reader 425-463 (Stephen M. Feldman, ed., 2000).   ISBN-10: 0814726798 ;  ISBN-13: 978-0814726792.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queering Theory: An Essay on the Conceit of Revolution in Law, in<\/em> Legal Queeries: Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies 185-203 (Leslie J. Moran, et al. eds.,  London:  Cassell, 1998) (ISBN 978-0304338641).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publications: Books (Essays Published in Books) Revolutionary Constitutions and their Constitutionalism: The Internalization of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of Stability, in Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear: Constitutional and International Law Perspectives 103-141 (Martin Belov, ed., Routledge, 2025). \u201cWhole Process Democracy\u201d as Applied Constitutionalism, in The Cambridge Handbook of … <\/p>\n

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