{"id":2860,"date":"2025-06-17T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/?page_id=2860"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:00:13","slug":"larry-cata-backer-publications-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/larry-cata-backer-publications-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cuba<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer, <em>Legal-Institutional Foundations for Reconstruction in a Post-Revolutionary Cuba: A Conceptual Exercise<\/em>, \u00a0Cuba in Transition: Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (April 2026);<\/strong> Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Backer_ProceedingsPaper_LegalFoundations_ASCE2025_v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer, \u201cCuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline, <em>Penn State Journal of Law &amp; International Affairs<\/em> 13(2):1-84 (2025)<\/strong>; Access <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1386&amp;context=jlia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer and Rafael Vel\u00e1zquez P\u00e9rez, \u201cThe EU to the Rescue of the Cuban Economy? The Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) and the State of Cuba-EU Economic Relations,\u201d 21 (2021) <em>Cuba in Transition: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy <\/em>70-88. Access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-Backer-Perez.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer and Flora Sapio, \u201cPopular 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).<\/strong> <strong>ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Popular-Consultation-and-Referendum-in-the-Making-of-Contemporary.pdf\">https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Popular-Consultation-and-Referendum-in-the-Making-of-Contemporary.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer, Flora Sapio, and James Korman, &#8220;Popular Participation in the Constitution of the Illiberal State: An empirical Study of Popular Engagement and Constitutional Reform in Cuba and the Contours of Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0,&#8221;<\/strong> <em>Emory International Law Review<\/em> 34: 183-276 (2020). ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/backer-sapio-korman.pdf\">https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/backer-sapio-korman.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe External Capitalist and Internal Marxist\u2014The Fundamental Contradiction of Cuban Economic Reintegration in the Global Economic Order and the Role of the U.S.\u201d<\/strong> &nbsp;<em>Cuba in Transition: Proceedings of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy<\/em> 29:\u2013 (2020) DOWNLOAD ESSAY HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Backer_29_ASCE_ProceedingsBACKERINLAW.pdf\">Backer_29_ASCE_ProceedingsBACKERINLAW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Central Planning Versus Markets Marxism: Their Differences and Consequences for the International Ordering of State, Law, Politics, and Economy<\/em>, Connecticut Journal of International Law 32(1) :1-47 (2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CT-Journal-of-International-Law.pdf\">CT Journal of International Law<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Cuban Communist Party at the Center of Political and Economic Reform: Current Status and Future Reform<\/em>, Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 8:71-129 (2015)<\/strong>. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Northwestern-Interdisciplinary-Law-Review-Vol.-VIII-No.-1-Spring-2015.pdf\">Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review \u2013 Vol. VIII, No. 1 \u2013 Spring 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Cooperative as a Proletarian Corporation: &nbsp;The Global Dimensions of Property Rights and the Organization of Economic Activity in Cuba, 33 Northwestern Journal of International Law &amp; Business 527-618 (2013).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Backer_JILB_Final_Print.pdf\">Backer_JILB_Final_Print<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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<\/strong>). <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cuba-adn-the-Construct-of-Alternative-Global-Trade-Sys.pdf\">Cuba adn the Construct of Alternative Global Trade Sys<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cuba and the Development of Odious Debt Doctrine in an Age of Financial Crisis, 6 Transnational Dispute Management Journal 1 (Jan. 2009) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transnational-dispute-management.com\/article.asp?key=1311\">http:\/\/www.transnational-dispute-management.com\/article.asp?key=1311<\/a>).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tdm2009-article003.pdf\">tdm(2009)-article003<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cFrom Hatuey to Che: Indigenous Cuba Without Indians and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,\u201d <em>American Indian Law Review<\/em> 33(1):201-238 (2008-2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/33AmIndLRev2012009HatueyChe.pdf\">33AmIndLRev201(2009)HatueyChe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cCuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline, <em>Penn State Journal of Law &amp; International Affairs<\/em> 13(2):1-84 (2025)<\/strong>. Download HERE ; OR Access <a href=\"https:\/\/elibrary.law.psu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1386&amp;context=jlia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cOdious Debt Wears Two Faces: Systemic Illegitimacy, Problems and Opportunities in Traditional Odious Debt Conceptions in Globalized Economic Regimes,\u201d <em>Duke Journal of Law &amp; Contemporary Problems<\/em> 70:1-46 (2007).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/70LCP1OdiousDebts2007.pdf\">70LCP1OdiousDebts2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201c<\/em>Ideologies of Globalization and Sovereign Debt:&nbsp; Cuba and the IMF\u201d,&nbsp; <em>Penn State International Law Review<\/em> 24:497-561 (2006).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/243PSUIntlLRev4972006IdeologiesGlobal.pdf\">24(3)PSUIntlLRev497(2006)IdeologiesGlobal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Cuban Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: Cuban Marxism, Private Economic Collectives, and Free Market Globalism<\/em>, Transnational Law &amp; Contemporary Problems 14(2):337-418 (2004).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/14TransLawContempProbs3372004.pdf\">14TransLawContempProbs337(2004)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/welcome\/publications-3\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Published Works <\/a>Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer, Legal-Institutional Foundations for Reconstruction in a Post-Revolutionary Cuba: A Conceptual Exercise, \u00a0Cuba in Transition: Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (April 2026); Download HERE. 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