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Recent PowerPoint Presentations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cEl Encuentro entre la Gobernansa Empresarial y los ONU Principios Rectores sobre las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos,\u201d Public Lecture, Universidad Icesi, Cali Colombia, 18 March 2026. ACCESS PPT HERE Backer_REV_PricipiosRectores_3-22_2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Virtual Platform Within the Temples of Law: Law and Platform as Each Other\u2019s Subject and Object.\u201d Remarks prepared for International Symposium: The Technological Paradigm Shift in International and Transnational and European Union Law; Session on \u00a0Technology and International and Transnational Legal Subjectivity, Roma Tre, Rome, Italy\u00a0 29 January 2026. ACCESS THE REMARKS HERE\u2013ENGLISH<\/strong><\/a>;<\/strong> ESPA\u00d1OL.<\/strong><\/a> ACCESS PPT HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween the Eagle, the Bear, and the Dragon and Within the Global Flows of Economic Activity: Canadian Business and Human Rights Through the Lens of National Security;\u201d Remarks delivered at the Canadian Forum for Business and Human Rights Inaugural Conference, \u201cCorporate Accountability in Canada: At the Crossroads of Scholarship, Legislation, Litigation, Policy-making, and Community Resistance.\u201d University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 14 November 2025. ACCESS REMARKS EXTENDED HERE: Backer_REMARKS_V2.0__CFBHRconference_2025<\/a>;\u00a0ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_CanadaBHR_PPT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLegal-Institutional Foundations for Reconstruction in a Post-Revolutionary Cuba: A Conceptual Exercise,\u201d Remarks prepared for delivery at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Miami, Florida, 25 October 2025. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_Remarks_LegalFoundations_ASCE2025<\/a>; ACCESS PAPER HERE: Backer_Remarks_LegalFoundations_ASCE2025_v3<\/a>; ACCESS PPT: Backer_Cuba_Institutional-Legal-Foundations_ASCE2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCoding the Rule of Code Versus Rule of Law for Blockchain Debate,\u201d Keynote\u00a0 Remarks Prepared for the Session on Rule of Code vs Rule of Law, International Symposium: BlockchainGov International Symposium; Present & Future of Blockchain Governance,\u00a0 25-26 September 2025; Panth\u00e9on Assas \u2013 Universit\u00e9 Paris II, Paris France.\u00a0 ACCESS REMARKS HERE: \u00a0BACKER_Rule_of_Code_Blockchain_2025v4<\/a>; ACCESS PPT HERE: BACKER_Coding_Blockchain_REMARKS_9-2025<\/a><\/p>\n

“Smart Regulation, Smart Society, Smart Courts, and Smart Party: The Ideology of Chinese Social Credit and its Dialectics.”\u00a0 <\/em>European China Law Studies Association Annual Conference 2025,\u00a0University College Cork, Cork Ireland, 20 September 2025. Draft Paper ACCESS HERE: Backer_SmartRegulation_ECLSA2025_v2<\/a>; PPT ACCESS HERE: Backer-ECLSA-2025_SmartGovt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cInternationalism in Multiple Tracks: The UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights Between the EU, China, and the U.S. in the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century.\u201d Remarks delivered at the International Business and Human Rights Annual Workshop, 20th ESIL Annual Conference, \u201cReconstructing International Law: Structural Shifts Under the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u201d 11 September 2025, Berlin, Germany. ACCESS PPT HERE: ESIL_2025_IGBHR_BACKER<\/a>; ACCESS REMARKS HERE: BACKER_ESIL_IBHRIREMARKS_v3_2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Smart Court, Smarter Party: A Necessary but Incomplete Interpenetration,”Remarks delivered at the Workshop, Smart Courts in Comparative Perspective: Chinese Approaches and Global Developments, University of Cologne (7 July 2025). ACCESS REMARKS HERE: BACKER_Remarks_SmartCourts_Cologn2025<\/a>; PPT HERE: Backer_SmartCourts_PPT_Cologne8July2025<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Trump’s America: Issues, Conflicts, and Future Trajectories” Presentation for a workshop of the Dutch Labour\/Greens, 14 June 2025. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_Trump_Admin_Analaysis2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe visualization of Text and the Textualization of Image: Factual Narratives in and as Legal Discourse.\u201d Remarks Prepared for the 25th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (Legal Evidence on the Age of Techno-Societies and Visual Jurisprudence), University of Coimbra, Portugal 9 May 2025. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_VizualizationTex_IRSL25_2025<\/a> ; ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_REMARKS_25IRSL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The Future of a Smart Society with Chinese Marxist-Leninist Characteristics: Reflections on \u201cOpinions on Completing\/Improving the Social Credit System\u201d issued by the General Offices of the State Council and the CPCCC.” Workshop Presentation Social Credit Study Group, European China Law Studies Association Research Hub University of Cologne, Germany (virtual) 29 April 2025. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer-Opinions_CPCC-SC_SCS4-2025<\/a>; ACCESS SUMMARY PAPER HERE: Reflections on \u4e2d\u5171\u4e2d\u592e\u529e\u516c\u5385\u56fd\u52a1\u9662\u529e\u516c\u5385\u5173\u4e8e\u5065\u5168\u793e\u4f1a\u4fe1\u7528\u4f53\u7cfb\u7684\u610f\u89c1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Interlocking Legalities of the Chinese Presence in Latin America and Its Perception: Theory, Operationalization, and Impact in Columbia.” Presentation at that Conference \u201cThe Legal Dimensions of China\u2019s Presence in Latin America\u201d organized by Dr. Monika Prusinowska (University of Barcelona) and Dr. Daniel Sprick (University of Cologne); hosted at the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain\u00a0 12 February 2025. ACCESS SUMMARY-INTRODUCTION HERE: SUMMARY_INRO_Interlocking Legalities of the Chinese Presence in Latin America and Its Perception<\/a>; ACCESS PPT HERE:\u00a0 China_LatinAmerica_Columbia_Corps_BarcelonaPresent2-2025<\/a><\/p>\n

“Chinese Constitutionalism as Socialist Modernization.” Remarks delivered at the 10th Asian Constitutional Law Forum, University of Hong Kong (10 December 2024). ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Remarks1.1_ACLF_Backer_12-2024<\/a>; ACCESS PPT HERE Backer_Remarks_ConstitutionModernization-12-2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRevolutionary Constitutions and their Constitutionalism: The Internalization of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of Stability.\u201d Remarks delivered at the International Scientific Conference \u2018Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear\u2019 9 November 2024, Sofia Bulgaria. ACCESS REMARKS HERE: Backer_Remarks_RevolutionaryConstitutions<\/a>; TEXT of ESSAY MAY BE ACCESSED HERE: Backer_EmotiveSemiotics_Draft_v2.0<\/a>; PPT MAY BE ACCESSED HERE: Backer_RevCon_Sofia-11-2024<\/a><\/p>\n

“Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline.” Paper presented for the panel, Social and Cultural Consequences of Cuba\u2019s Economic Path?, 2024 Annual Conference of the Association for the study of the Cuban Economy (Miami, FL 19 October 20204). ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_CubaStateofMisery_ASCE2024<\/a>. ACCESS PAPER HERE (SSRN<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.1\u2014Revolutionary Leninist Constitutionalism With Cuban Characteristics: Popular Participation and Engagement from Lineamientos Through Cuba\u2019s 2019 Constitution, to Contemporary Administrative Techno-Bureaucratization;” Lecture delivered at Barry University Andreas School of Law\u00a0 24 June 2024. PPT ACCESSED HERE: Cuban _Socialist_Democracy2.1_Lecture_BarryU2024<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Two Towers: China, the U.S., and the Structural Characteristics\u00a0 of Competitive Advantage in AI Innovation;\u201d Remarks delivered at the Conference: Cooperation, Competition & Conflict in East Asia, William & Mary Security and Foreign Affairs Initiative, Williamsburg, Virginia, 15 February 2024. ACCESS HERE: Backer_Remarks_W&MConf2-2024<\/a> ; PPT ACCESSED HERE Backer_TwoTowers_Conf_Presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Data\/Governance With Ideological Characteristics: China in (and as) the Shadow of the US”\u00a0Presentation at the Event: Data Governance and its Impact on U.S.-China Relations – China Focus | The Carter Center Emory University, Atlanta Georgia 26 September 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer-Demystifying-China-Data-Gov<\/a>; PDF VERSION OF PPT HERE: Backer-Demystifying-China-Data-Gov<\/a><\/p>\n

“ESG Trouble–From the Center to the Ends of the Silk Roads–A Comparative Probl\u00e9matique” Presentation at the Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association 22 September 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_ESG-SocialCredit_ECLSA2023<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Just Transitions of Risk\u2014Human Rights, Sustainability and the ESG Wars” given at the Just Transitions Conference (University of Dundee; 7 September 2023)<\/a>. ACCESS PPT HERE: \u00a0Backer_JustTransitions_of_RisK_ESG_9-2023<\/a><\/p>\n

“Human Rights Due Diligence in the UNGPs.”Prepared for Workshop: The current state and future trajectories of human rights due diligence laws: New Legal Norms on Human Rights Due Diligence<\/a><\/i><\/b> (6 September 2023; virtual). ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_mHRDD-UNGPs-9-2023<\/a>
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\u201cInside the Cage of the System (\u5236\u5ea6\u7684\u7b3c\u5b50\u91cc): Standards Setting, National Security Values, Tech Platforms, Regulation, and the Central Contradiction of Legality in the Current Historical Era;\u201d Remarks delivered at the Workshop-Conference\u2013Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong: The Domain of Standards Setting; sponsored by the HKU Law and Technology Center and the Center for Chinese Law; University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 25 August 2023. ACCESS HERE: Backer_Remarks_PPT8-2023<\/a> ; text of Remarks here: Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong<\/a><\/p>\n

“Social Listening and Infodemic<\/em>\u2014An Epidemiology for the Body Politic,” PPT for Remarks delivered at Conference: Governance of Social Listening in the Context of Serious Health Threats; University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong SAR, 22 August 2023. ACCESS HERE: Backer_Social_Listening_UHK8-2023(1)<\/a> ; text of Remarks here: Backer_Remarks_Social_Listening_Conference8-2023<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhole Process Democracy\u201d as Applied Constitutionalism.\u201d Presentation at the City University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Public Law and Human Rights Forum, Hong Kong SAR, 7 June 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_WholeProcessDemocracy_CityUHK-7June2023<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Semiotics of Democracy and Ideologies of Meaning in Constitutional Orders,” presentation for the Wagner-Linares Workshop, 23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, Pontificia Universit\u00e0 Antonianum, Rome, Italy 24 May 2023. ACCESS PPT here: Backer_Semiotics_Democracy_IASL_2023<\/a>; \u00a0 ACCESS Abstract HERE:The Semiotics of Democracy and Ideologies of Meaning in Constitutional Orders<\/a><\/p>\n

“The UNGP\u2019s 2nd Pillar as Soft Public and Harder Private Law,” presentation made at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, <\/i>Berlin, Germany (20 March 2023). Access PPT here: Backer_ECCHR Presentation_Berlin3-2023<\/a><\/p>\n

“Chinese State-Owned Companies: Congruence and Dissonance in Outbound Investment; the Americas and Europe<\/em>,” presentation at the Oxford China Law Center, 16 February 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_China_SOEs_2-2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The ESG Wars<\/em>.”Presentation at University of Dundee (Scotland), 13 February 2023. ACCESS PPT HERE: ESG Wars<\/a> (Penn State Studendent Teach in lecture 28 April 2023).<\/p>\n

“Un Somaro Piumato: Rethinking the Scope and Nature of State Liability\u00a0 for Acts of their Commercial Instrumentality<\/em>.” Book Launch Event, “Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination<\/i><\/a> (Springer, 2022), edited by Julien Chaisse<\/a>, J\u0119drzej G\u00f3rski<\/a>, and Dini Sejko<\/a>; University College London, 10 February 2023.\u00a0 ACCESS PPT HERE: UnSomaroPiumentato_SOEs-Backer<\/a><\/p>\n

“Climate Impacts, Labor Rights, and Pathways to Remedy<\/em>.” Presentation for the Workshop: Weather and Work: How Climate Change Relates to Workers’ Rights”\/M\u00ebt\u00e9o et Travail: Comment le Changement climatique se rapporte aux droits des travailleurs<\/i>, held at Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto, Canada on 8 December 2022. ACCESS PPT HERE: ClimateImpoactsLaborRights<\/a><\/p>\n

“From 11 July 2021 to Hurricane Ian in 2022: The Transformation of Mass Protests in Cuba and its Consequences.<\/i>” Remarks delivered for the Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs Fall Speaker Series; Penn State University, State College PA, 25 October 2022. ACCESS PPT HERE: Protests_Cuba<\/a><\/p>\n

“Linking People to Governing Institutions: \u300a\u4e2d\u56fd\u65b0\u578b\u653f\u515a\u5236\u5ea6\u300b (China\u2018s New Political Party System), \u5168\u8fc7\u7a0b\u6c11\u4e3b (Whole Process Democracy), and Leninist Political Parties Within Socialist Constitutional Democracy<\/a>.<\/em>” Workshop: Political Parties and Constitutions in Asia held on 23-24\u00a0 September 2022 at\u00a0 St Hughes College, Oxford University. ACCESS PPT HERE:Backer_WholeProcessDemocracy(9-2022)<\/a>; PAPER ACCESS HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Imaginaries of Regulatory Spaces in an Age of Administrative Discretion: Social Credit \u2018in\u2019 or \u2018as\u2019 the Cage of Regulation of Socialist Legality.” Hybrid Workshop: Law and Social Credit in China; University of Cologne; 19 September 2022, Cologne, Germany.\u00a0 ACCESS HERE: BAcker_SCS_Cage_Regulation_9-2022<\/a><\/p>\n

“The in\/exclusiveness of law soft law instruments in international business and human rights (IBHR): <\/i>Form and Function in the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights and the Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment.” Presentation for the <\/b>IBHR IG Workshop (IN\/EX-clusiveness through the lens of International Business and Human Rights), <\/i>Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law Utrecht University (1 September 2022) ACCESS HERE: Backer_IBHR_IR_ESIL2022 (edited)<\/a><\/p>\n

“Hong Kong Between Sovereignties, Autonomies, and Self-Determination.” Rage, Reckoning & Remedy: 7th Global Meeting on Law & Society; Panels on: Law, Resistance, & Authoritarianism; Jointly Sponsored by CRN01, ALSA, CRN33, & IRC; Lisbon, Portugal \u00a015 July 2022. Access HERE: HK_Sovereignty_LSA2022_Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

“Facilitating Energy Transition: A Human Rights and Soft Law Perspective.” 2nd Energy Transition Colloquium; West Virginia University,\u00a0 Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics, Dept. of Public Administration; Paolo D. Farah, Conference Chair. West Virginia University 16-17 June 2022. ACCESS HERE: Backer_Facilitating_Energy_Transition_2022<\/a><\/p>\n

“Rethinking Climate Change from the perspective of the 2018 proposal for a \u201cFramework principles on human rights and the environment\u201d (A\/HRC\/37\/59).” Seminario International: La lucha en clave judicial frente al cambio clima\u00e1tico (Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot, Lorena Sales Pallar\u00e9s, and Maria Chiara Marullo (organizers) Universitat Jaume I, Castell\u00f3 de la Plana, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain5 de Mayo 2022. ACCESS HERE:Backer_Seminario_Cambio Climatico2022<\/a><\/p>\n

“Governing Platforms: Structural and Conceptual Challenges.” Prepared for Conference on Digital Platforms and Global Law organized by UNIDROIT, Roma Tre and the European Law Institute, Rome, Italy 29 April 2022. ACCESS HERE:Backer_GoverningPlatforms_UNIDROIT2022<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Communist Party as Polity: The CPC and the Chinese Constitutional Order.” Prepared for Conference:\u00a0 Constitutional Law of Greater China organized by the Oxford Programme in Asian Laws (virtual; 9-10 December 2021). ACCESS HERE: CPC_as_Polity_Backer_PPT_12-2021<\/a>. Paper may be accessed HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The Algorithmic Law of Business and Human Rights: Constructing a Private Transnational Law of Ratings, Social Credit, and Accountability Measures.” Prepared for Algorithmic Law and Society Symposium, HEC Paris & Ecole Polytechnique (1-3 December 2021). ACCESS HERE:Algorithmic_Law_Backer_ALSS_20231\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Paper may be accessed HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Outlining and Final Exam Prep for 1Ls,\u201d Penn State Law, Latinx Law Students Association (17 November 2021). Access HERE:LLALSA_Student_Exam_Study_-presentation_Backer_11-2021<\/a><\/p>\n

“Robert Cover and International Law–Narrative Nudges and Nomadic Nomos,”prepared for the Conference, “The Life and Work of Robert M. Cover, ” panel on “Nomos and Jurisgenesis in International Law and Society, Touro Law Center,\u00a0 4-5 October 2021 .\u00a0 Access HERE: Backer_Cover_Conf_2021<\/a><\/p>\n

“Conceptualizing the Emerging Structures of Transnational Governance in the Age of Sovereignty \u2014 The Hong Kong SAR 2019-2020,” for panel: “New Actors and Dynamics in Transnational Law: Moving Borders and Changing Concepts of Borders, Demos and Territory” at the 15th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, University of Warsaw (26 September 2021) (Virtual).HK_Sovereignty_ECLSA2021_Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

“SOEs as Investors and Human Rights \u2013 Chinese FDI in Latin America and Europe;” for Book Project Workshop: Human Rights and environmental sustainability in state-owned enterprises in Latin America and Europe; Santiago, Chile, (21 September 2021) (Virtual).ChineseSOEsHumanRightsLatinAmerica9-2021<\/a><\/p>\n

“COVID, Control, and Complicity: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal, Political, Normative, and Markets Regimes” Interest Group on International Business and Human Rights; Workshop: International Business and Human Rights: Changes in International Lawmaking (16th Annual Conference European Society of International Law; Stockholm University) 8 September2021 (Virtual).Backer_COVID_Complicity_IGBHR_8_Sept_2021<\/a><\/p>\n

“Trust Platforms: The Digitalization of Corporate Governance and the Transformation of Trust in Polycentric Space.” Workshop Presentation Chinese Social Credit Reading Group 31 August 2021.TrustPlatforsm<\/a><\/p>\n

“Cuba in the Era of Olokun: From the 8th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party to the July 11th Protest Movement and the Future of the Cuban Political-Economic Model.” Presentation at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (13 August 2021). PowerPoint HERE:Backer_8Th_Congress_ASCE_2021<\/a><\/p>\n

“Transparency, Good Governance at the African End of China’s Silk Road\u2014Challenges and Opportunities,” PowerPoint of Presentation at the Conference: Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Addressing the Issues of Debt, Dispute Resolution, and Transparency, 24 February 2021.\u00a0 PowerPoint HERE: Backer_BRI-Africa_Transparency-Governance2-2021<\/a><\/p>\n

Discussant presentation for Aaron A. Dhir: \u201cBlack Star Line, Inc.: Race in the Historical Life of the Corporation.\u201d Business and Human Rights Workshop Series, University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute, 19 February 2021. PowerPoint HERE:Backer_Discussant_Dhir_Black Star Line_UConn2-2021<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEntangling the Legalities of Utopia: New Terrains of Entanglement Among Traditional and Data Driven Governance.\u201d Panel on \u201cInvisible Drivers Behind Formal Law.\u201d Virtual Conference: \u201cMultiple Legalities: Conflict and Entanglement in the Global Legal Order,\u201d sponsored by \u00a0the Graduate Institute Geneva, and Humboldt University Berlin, 15 January 2021. ACCESS HERE: (1) Essay Backer_Think_Piece._Entangled_Legalities2021docx<\/a>; (2) PowerPoint.Backer_PPT_Multiple LegalitiesCOnf_Jan_2021<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCuba\u2019s Response to COVID-19 and the Consequences for Cuba of the Pandemic.\u201d Panel on Cuban Economy, Cuba-Venezuela Interactions. ASSA (American Economic Association) Virtual Conference, 3 January 2021.Backer-Gonzalez_Cuba_PandemicAEA2020<\/a><\/p>\n

“From the Belt and Road Initiative to Social Credit Systems: Tech and Business Relations Between the US and China.” Presentation for\u00a0Global China Connection Penn State Chapter Industry Expert Series (Virtual) 10 December 2020.\u00a0 Available HERE: PSU_Presentation_ChinaBusinessTech12-2020<\/a>; Video Available HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

“Platform Governance: Chinese Social Credit and Socialist Digital Markets.” Prepared for Virtual Workshop \u201cGovernance and Emerging Technological Change in China\u201d Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<\/em> 20 November 20, 2020 (virtually) ACCESS AND DOWNLOAD HERE:Backer_SocialCreditPlatforms_DuisbergEssen2020<\/a><\/p>\n

“El estado del litigio en materia de cambio clim\u00e1tico en los EEUU<\/i> [The State of Climate Change Litigation in the USA]” Presentation for the I Congreso Italo-Espa\u00f1ol sobre la Lucha en clave judicial frente al cambio clim\u00e1tico<\/a> (<\/i>First Italo-Spanish Congress on the Key Role of the Courts in the Fight Against Climate Change); 19 November 2020, Universitat Jaume I (virtually) Valencia Spain.\u00a0 ACCESS and DOWNLOAD PPT HERE:Climate_Litigation_US_2020<\/a><\/p>\n

“COVID, Control, and Complicity in Rwanda: Human Rights Intersectionality in the Dead Spaces between Legal and Markets Regimes.” Presentation for Roundtable Sponsored by Penn State Law and School of International Affairs <\/i>(<\/i><\/b>21 October 2020 (Virtual). Access and Download PPT HERE:Backer_COVID_Complicity_Rwanda_PSLHuamnTightsSocirty_21October2020<\/a><\/p>\n

“Chinese Social Credit and Pandemic.” Prepared for “Case Study on Personal Data\u2014Social credit scoring models from China to Silicon Valley,” 3<\/i>rd<\/i>\u00a0Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference<\/i> (all sessions conducted virtually) 2020 Theme-Data Justice: Legal and Policy Issues in Data Collection, Usage, and Ownership; Seattle University School of Law; Friday August 21, 2020. ACCESS AND DOWNLOAD PPT HERE: Backer_Seattle_SocialCreditPandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Global Trade?” Prepared for Panel: Shifting Registers in International Economic Law and Development, 29 May 2020, Law and Society 2020 Annual Conference Online. ACCESS PPT HERE:Backer_BRI_LSA_2020<\/a><\/p>\n

“Multinational Corporations as Objects and Sources of Transnational Law.” Delivered at the International Scientific and Practical Conference \u201cTransnational Business Law: Erasing Borders\u201d [\u041c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u043d\u043e-\u043f\u0440\u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0444\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0438\u044f \u201c\u0422\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0431\u0438\u0437\u043d\u0435\u0441-\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043e: \u0441\u0442\u0438\u0440\u0430\u0435\u043c \u0433\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u044b\u201d ]hosted by the School of Law and Public Policy, Narxoz University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 17 October 2019. DOWNLOAD POWERPOINT HERE: Kazahkstan_MNEs2019_Backer<\/a>;\u00a0 ACCESS PAPER HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Blacklists and Social Credit Regimes in China<\/a>,”\u00a0 Prepared for the interdisciplinary symposium Super-Scoring? Data-driven societal technologies in China and Western-style democracies as a new challenge for education.<\/i>Cologne, Germany; October 11, 2019 DOWNLOAD HERE:Blacklists_SuperScoring_Backer10-2019<\/a>\u00a0 PAPER AVAILABLE HERE:Blacklists and Social Credit Regimes in China<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Lawyer is not an Algorithm”: Remarks on the Ethical Responsibilities of Lawyers in Relation to Sustainability and Corruption <\/a>(Presentation for the Joint Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Business Law Forum, and the Wickwire Legal Ethics Lecture,<\/a> \u201c The ethical and professional responsibilities of business lawyers: Business, Human Rights, and the Sustainable Development Goals;\u201d Schulich School of Law<\/a>, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 26 September 2019)<\/p>\n

PowerPoints of Presentation: “Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0\u2014Popular Participation, Affirmation, and Engagement from Lineamientos to Cuba\u2019s 2019 Constitution Presentation for the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Annual Meeting <\/a> (Miami, FL, July 2019)<\/p>\n

PowerPoints of Presentation: “The Democratic Constitution of Illiberal States\u2014An Empirical Approach to Theorizing Popular Participation, Representation and Constitutional Reform in Cuba” Presentation for the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Annual Meeting<\/a> (Miami, FL, July 2019).<\/p>\n

\u201cHow to Become a Full Time Law Professor<\/a>\u201d PowerPoints to accompany <\/a>Transcript of Remarks Delivered at the Panel Session, Panel 4G: How to Become a Full-Time Law Professor \u2013A Workshop for Aspirants, 4th<\/sup> National People of Color Scholarship Conference: \u201cPeople of Color and the Future of Democracy\u201d (22 March 2019), American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. Access PowerPoints HERE:Backer_How To Succeed NEPOC4<\/a> Access Transcript HERE .<\/p>\n

Socialist Constitutional Democracy in the Age of Accountability (<\/em>\u8d23<\/em><\/a>), <\/em>Remarks presented for the Panel:\u00a0 The Emerging Structures of Chinese Constitutionalism in the New Era;\u00a0 The 13th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association; Turin, Italy \u00a013 \u2013 14 September 2018. DOWNLOAD VERSION HERE: Backer_ECLSA_2018<\/a><\/p>\n

“Constitutional Rights and Obligations of Corporate Persons in the United States: Constitutional Methods and Mechanisms for Corporate Accountability in Business and Human Rights<\/a>.”\u00a0Panel on Constitutional Rights and Corporate Actors<\/em>; ICON-S Conference, Hong Kong, 26 June 2018. Download PowerPoint HERE: ICONCorpConstOblgtnPRESENTATIONVERSION6-2018<\/a><\/p>\n

“Human Rights Responsibilities of Social Media Companies and Regulation\/Moderation of Content:\u00a0 Markets, Monitoring, Accountability<\/a>.” Contribution to Roundtable on Human Rights and the Business of Social Media, Sponsored by City University of Hong Kong; Human Rights and Policy Forum, Hong Kong SAR., Monday, 25 June 2018. PowerPoint HERE: BHRWorkShopCUHK6-2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Where Neither Corporate Nor International Law Converge: The Multinational Enterprise and Societal Frameworks<\/i><\/a>.” Presentation at ASIL International Legal Theory Interest Group <\/a>(ILTIG) Symposium,\u00a0\u00a0When Corporate and International Law Meet: Corporate Agency in a Global Context.<\/a> <\/i>Washington, D.C., 11 May 2018. ASILTillarHouseMNCsSocialNorms2018<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Protection of the Rights of Corporations Under U.S. Constitutional Law.” Workshop presentation, East China University of Political Science and Law. Shanghai, China, 27 April 2018. ECUPLPresentation4-2018<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Structures and Ideologies of Social Credit in the U.S.<\/a>\u201d conference, \u6b27\u7f8e\u56fd\u5bb6\u4fe1\u7528\u6cd5\u6cbb\u7ecf\u9a8c\u53ca\u5bf9\u4e2d\u56fd\u7684\u542f\u793a [Experiences of Credit Law Practices From the U.S. and European Countries and its Implications for China], hosted by \u9996\u90fd\u5e08\u8303\u5927\u5b66 \u4fe1\u7528\u7acb\u6cd5\u4e0e\u4fe1\u7528\u8bc4\u4f30\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u5fc3 [Capital Normal University Research Center for Credit Law and Credit Assessment], Beijing, PRC, April 25, 2018. SocialCreditWestBeijing4-2018_v3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cDesigning an Ideal Curriculum for China\u2019s One Belt One Road Initiative<\/a>.\u201d seminar presentation at Henan Normal University<\/a> \u6cb3\u5357\u5e08\u8303\u5927\u5b66 Law Faculty<\/a>, Xin Xiang, Henan Province, PRC, on April 23, 2018. IdealOBORCurriculumV3<\/a><\/p>\n

La debida diligencia de derechos humanos y las universidades\/Human Rights Due Diligence and the University<\/em>. FORO: RETOS Y DESAFI\u0301OS DE LAS EMPRESAS Y LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS;\u00a0 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de derecho y Consejer\u00eda Presidencial para los Derechos Humanos. Panel 5: Empresas y derechos humanos: los retos desde la Academia; Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, 20 Marzo 2018. HRDD_University_Colombia_WEBSITE VERSION3-2018<\/a><\/p>\n

La gobernanza multinivel en el ejercicio de la profesi\u00f3n legal en empresas y derechos humanos\/Multilevel Governance and the exercise of the Legal Profession respecting business and Human Rights. <\/i>FORO: RETOS Y DESAFI\u0301OS DE LAS EMPRESAS Y LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS;\u00a0 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de derecho y Consejer\u00eda Presidencial para los Derechos Humanos. Panel 2: El ejercicio de la profesi\u00f3n legal y los derechos humanos; Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, 20 Marzo 2018. Backer_BHR_LegalServ_ForoBHR3-2018<\/a><\/p>\n

The Obligation of States to Prevent Negative Effects to Human Life and Health Caused by Climate Change: The View from International Human Rights Frameworks. <\/em>ESIL Research Forum on \u201cInternational Disorder and Contestation,\u201d Hebrew University of Jerusalem 28 Feb.- 1 March 2018. BackerESILClimateChange2-2018;<\/a> For Presentation Summary HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

“Corporations and the U.S. Constitution: Origin of Rights and Recent Trends.” Presentation for Seminar on the Constitutionalization of the Corporate Institution, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, China, 23 October 2017. POWERPOINT SLIDES HERE: Backer_CorpConstitutonECUPL;<\/a> \u4e2d\u6587\u7248 Revised Chinese Version Backer_CorpConstitutonECUPL<\/a>
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“The (In)Visible Corporation: Asset Partitioning and Corporate Personality for an Emerging Age.” Paper delivered at the International Conference: The Corporation in a Changing World . International Commercial Law Center Shanghai University\u00a0 of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, 21-22 October 2017. POWERPOINT SLIDES HERE: Backer_Corp(In)Visibility_Conf10-2017<\/a>; \u4e2d\u6587\u7248 Chinese Backer_CorpInVisibility_Conf10-2017<\/a>
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“Governance Polycentrism–Hierarchy and Order Without Government in Business and Human Rights Regulation<\/a>.” Presentation for Seminar Corporate Governance, Governance Regimes and the Management of the Human Rights Effects of Economic Activity, University of Manchester; Alliance\u00a0 Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK.,\u00a0 12 October 2017.\u00a0 POWERPOINT SLIDES HERE:Backer-Collissions_Manchester10-2017<\/a><\/p>\n

“Measurement, Assessment and Reward: The Challenges of Building Institutionalized Social Credit and Rating Systems in China and in the West<\/a>.” Paper delivered at the International Conference: International Symposium on Rule of Law & Social Credit Systems. KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People\u2019s Republic of China, September 23, 2017.\u00a0 POWERPOINT SLIDES HERE: Backer_MeasurementPPT<\/a><\/p>\n

“Foreign Investment in Cuba: Law, Policy, and Practicalities.” Presentation for the 27th Annual Conference Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Miami, Florida; 28 July 2017. ACSE_CLE_PPT_Backer_2017<\/a><\/p>\n

The Responsibilities of Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Financial Institutions to Respect Human Rights: The Example of the Extractives Sector Financing<\/a> (3-2017).<\/p>\n

Sovereign Wealth Funds, Capacity Building, Development, and Governance<\/a>; Wake Forest Law Review Spring Symposium March 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n

Diversity in Legal Education: Considering the Hollow Spaces Between Speech and Action<\/a>; Presentation prepared for Event: All In at Penn State Law; Addressing Diversity and Implicit Bias<\/em>, Penn State Law, University Park, PA March 16, 2017.
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Between State, Company, and Market: A Preliminary Engagement on the Business and Human Rights Obligations of States and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)<\/a>; Prepared for Symposium Sovereign Conduct at the Margins of the Law<\/em>; organized by the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 17 February 2017.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Issues in Shared Governance<\/a>, Remarks Delivered January 26, 2017 at Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n

Between the Judge and the Law\u2014Judicial Independence and Authority With Chinese Characteristics<\/a>; prepared for 11th Annual Meeting of the European China Law Studies Association, Rome, Italy, 23 Sept. 2016.
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Central Planning Versus Markets Marxism: The Cuban Communist Party Confronts Crisis, Challenge and Change in its 7th Congress<\/a>; prepared for Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 26th Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 2016.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u4e2d\u56fd\uff0c\u6cd5\u5f8b\u4e0e\u5916\u56fd\u4eba\uff1a\u56fd\u9645\u821e\u53f0\u4e0a\u7684\u76f8\u4e92\u4ea4\u878d (“China, Law, and the Foreigner: Mutual Engagements on a Global Stage”<\/a>), prepared for Conference: Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law; Tsinghua University, Beijing China, 9 July 2016. ENGLISH VERSION HERE<\/a>
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Transnational Law and the Multinational Enterprise: From Legal Concept\/Method Framework to Systemicity in Global Polycentric Governance Orders<\/a>; prepared for Jessup’s Bold Proposal:Engagements With Transnational Law After 60 Years; King’s College Dickson Poon School of Law, Transnational Law Institute, 1-2 July 2016.
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Normalization With Cuban Characteristics: How Might Cuba Navigate Normalization to Avoid Political Instability and Enhance Economic Development?<\/a>; Prepared for Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY May 2016.
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The American Law School: Crisis and Opportunities in the 21st Century<\/a>; prepared for visit of the Graduate School of Education of the University of Tokyo to Penn State University, 18 March 2016.<\/p>\n

The State of CSR in the United States<\/a><\/i> (December 14, 2015) The PowerPoints of that presentation can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rule of Law, the Chinese Communist Party Basic Line, and Judicial Reform (\u6cd5\u6cbb\uff0c\u4e2d\u56fd\u5171\u4ea7\u515a\u57fa\u672c\u8def\u7ebf\u539f\u5219\uff0c\u4ee5\u53ca\u53f8\u6cd5\u6539\u9769) <\/a>(December 11, 2015) ENGLISH AND CHINESE VERSIONS AVAILABLE<\/p>\n

Stress Points and Structural Challenges for the Continued Viability of the University Faculty Senate <\/a>(September 2013)<\/p>\n

State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate Rule of Law Constitutional System in China:\u00a0 The Example of Laojiao<\/i> and Shuanggui <\/i>(June 2013) (With Keren Wang)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Using the Sandusky Scandal as a Case Study:\u00a0 <\/span>Due Diligence Requirements of Corporate Board Members in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations (2013)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Proletarian Corporation (2012)<\/a><\/p>\n

Institutionalizing Global Principles of Business and Human Rights:\u00a0 The U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights<\/a>. (2012).<\/p>\n

\u00b4The Artist\u00b4: Legality and Legitimacy in the Savage Lands of Governance<\/a>. (April 16, 2012).<\/p>\n

Governance Without Government or Government Without the State: An Inquiry<\/a>.\u00a0 (March 1, 2012).<\/p>\n

Transparency and Business in International Environmental Law<\/a>. (Jan. 18-21, 2012).<\/p>\n

\u201cOrder, Discipline and Exigency\u201d: Cuba’s VIth Party Congress, the Lineamientos (Guidelines) and Structural Change In Education, Sport and Culture?<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n

Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba and ALBA\u2019s Grannacional Projects at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights<\/a>. (2011).<\/p>\n\n\n

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