Purpose of meeting of the Penn State University Faculty Senate Council to consider next steps in implementing the Freeh Group recommendations for changes at Penn State in light of the Sandusky scandal.
Proposed May 2014 Service Changes. Two public meetings will be held: the first on Tuesday, January 28, at 12 p.m., the second on Thursday, January 30, at 6 p.m.
Meetings will be held in the W. G. Porter Boardroom at 33 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43215
The presentation includes FINAL changes for the January 2015 Service Changes. Please join us at two public meetings, Tuesday, December 9, at 12 noon, and Tuesday, December 16 at 6 p.m. All interested persons are encouraged to attend and participate. Meetings are held at 33 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio.
Service changes take effect on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Purpose-Driven Meeting Design and Facilitation for Stakeholder Engagementghpc
The Georgia Health Policy Center presented this poster at the HIA of the Americas Conference in Oakland, CA in October 2011.
Stakeholder engagement is crucial to Health Impact Assessments (HIA). Valuable information for each step of HIA can be obtained through stakeholder meetings
and important relationships can be developed among diverse participants. For stakeholder engagement to be most effective, meetings should utilize adult
learning principles to enhance varied learning styles and an active information exchange.
What is the purpose of Sprint planning meeting in Agile?Mario Lucero
What is the purpose of the Sprint planning meeting?
When you’re working within an agile management framework, you accomplish discrete tasks within the framework of a sprint. On the first day of each sprint the scrum team holds the sprint planning meeting.
Proposed May 2014 Service Changes. Two public meetings will be held: the first on Tuesday, January 28, at 12 p.m., the second on Thursday, January 30, at 6 p.m.
Meetings will be held in the W. G. Porter Boardroom at 33 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43215
The presentation includes FINAL changes for the January 2015 Service Changes. Please join us at two public meetings, Tuesday, December 9, at 12 noon, and Tuesday, December 16 at 6 p.m. All interested persons are encouraged to attend and participate. Meetings are held at 33 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio.
Service changes take effect on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Purpose-Driven Meeting Design and Facilitation for Stakeholder Engagementghpc
The Georgia Health Policy Center presented this poster at the HIA of the Americas Conference in Oakland, CA in October 2011.
Stakeholder engagement is crucial to Health Impact Assessments (HIA). Valuable information for each step of HIA can be obtained through stakeholder meetings
and important relationships can be developed among diverse participants. For stakeholder engagement to be most effective, meetings should utilize adult
learning principles to enhance varied learning styles and an active information exchange.
What is the purpose of Sprint planning meeting in Agile?Mario Lucero
What is the purpose of the Sprint planning meeting?
When you’re working within an agile management framework, you accomplish discrete tasks within the framework of a sprint. On the first day of each sprint the scrum team holds the sprint planning meeting.
This presentation was prepared to support the induction process of new Board members of a Board I chaired for several years. It presents basic and introductory information sourced from various experts. It was intended to help Board members understand the role of the Board, their role as Board members and the difference between Board/policy and Operational roles. Feel free to use and adapt this slide show. I know how hard it is to Chair a volunteer Board and how frustrating it can be having to reinvent the wheel for processes like Board member induction. Some pictures would probably help this. A manual was also produced for distribution to Board members and that has been uploaded to Scribd.
Provides an overview of organization development (OD), focusing particularly on the intervention processes available. Categories or types of intervention are noted, and the depth of intervention is recognised as a key decision point for OD practitioners.
Instruments for improvement of Accountability and Governance in NGOsHumaneasy Consulting
Marilyn Wyatt (Consultant, Prague)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
2nd Conference "Ethics, Transparency and Responsability"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
Introduction and discussion about a proposed Education Standards Advisory Panel to provide an open, consensus‐based standards development process conforming to the Essential Requirements of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Discussion will include the panel's intent, the proposed policies/procedures, membership process and ANSI essential requirements upon which they're based.
Association Leadership: Board DevelopmentSteve Drake
Board excellence comes from knowing roles and responsibilities and practicing good habits. This presentation is the cornerstone of a 7-hour leadership development workshop for boards of the South Dakota Dairy Producers and Western Iowa Dairy Alliance. The sesssion was tailored for the needs the two groups expressed.
Leading ChangeIntroductionThe phrase leading change may gene.docxgauthierleppington
Leading Change
Introduction
The phrase
leading change
may generate a variety of emotions and reactions among individuals in an organization. Hope, optimism, excitement, relief, anxiety, and dismay are just a few of the thoughts and feelings that might be expressed by faculty, staff members, students, alumni, and others in a campus community. As a higher education professional, you should be prepared to lead others through change in a positive, collaborative manner and to encounter emotional and political resistance to change efforts.
This week, you will share experiences in which the political environment of your institution has impacted your efforts at collaborative change.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Propose ways to mitigate the negative influences of the political environment when leading change
Review the literature on organizational and program models
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Discussion - Week 4
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In the Middle
In this week’s video, Dr. Adrianna Kezar, professor at the University of Southern California, discusses ways in which middle-level leaders can lead and support change at their institutions. In Chapter 22 of the course text (McClellan & Stringer, 2009), Stringer discusses the influences of the political environment in which higher education professionals work. In what ways might political issues work against or undermine collaborative leadership strategies such as those Kezar recommends?
By Wednesday:
Post
an example of an experience in which you were required to navigate a complex political environment at your institution. Explain how the politics of your institution may have worked against the collaborative leadership practices you were trying to achieve.
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Bottom of Form
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ABOUT CAMPUS / MAY
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JUNE 2001
in higher education work to reform undergraduate education, particularly in order to provide new opportunities for student learning, we inevitably encounter roadblocks. My purpose here is to focus on the dynamics of organizational change inhigher education and to suggest ways to overcome these roadblocks. The assumption that drives this article is that those of us who work in postsecondary institutions need to rethink the structures that frame our work and reconsider the organizational cultures that define our lives. We cannot meet the increased demands of the twenty-first century without these efforts. James Duderstadt summarized the situation nicely in A University for the 21st Century:“ We face a future in which permanence and stability become less important than
flexibility and creativity, in which one of the few certainties will be the presence of continual change” (p. 35).
In research I have conducted on the campuses of fifteen four-year institutions over the last three years, I have interviewed over two hundred faculty members, deans, and senior administrators about the problems they feel they are confronting in their reform efforts. I have discovered that .
The Algorithms of Ideology in Economic Planning: A Critical Look at Cuba’s N...Larry Catá Backer
Short Abstract: The development plans of Marxist Leninist states are usually given short shrift as expressions of ideology (at best) and propaganda (at its most pathetic). Yet there is value in considering critically these development plans, if only to get a sense of the mindset of high level functionaries with control over macro-economic policy, and to get a sense of the administrative cultures within which governmental middle managers will actually exercise discretionary authority. Especially useful in that context is the Cuban Communist Party 7th Congress’s Conceptualización del modelo económico y social Cubano de desarrollo socialista: Plan nacional de desarrollo económico y social hasta 2030: Propuesta de vision de la nación, ejes y sectores estratégicos in which the PCC posited that development can be better managed by rejecting the central role of markets, and substituting state planning in its place, taking an all around view of economic planning as inextricably bound up in social, political and cultural progress of a nation. The resulting structural proposal elaborated in the Cuban National Economic and Social Development Plan 2030 (PNDES) suggests behavior and choice algorithms with interesting implications even if only partially realized. It is particularly important as a vision for transition developed in the wake of anticipated changes in higher leadership and the effects of normalization with the United States. This essay critically considers PNDES in the current context national and regional context. It starts with a brief analysis of PNDES for what it can reveal about entrenched ideological perspectives that shape decision making and analysis within Cuban Party and administrative elites. It then considers the way these appear to manifest themselves as a set of self-referencing decision systems that substitute or supplant market or regulatory determinations. Those premises are tested against Cuban approaches to the pharma sector, among the most important targets of centrally planned development. The essay ends with an assessment of the consequences of Cuban current approaches for national and regional affairs.
“One Belt One Road and RMB Internationalization—A Strategic Alliance” Larry Catá Backer
Focus: Consideration of the peripheral structures of Chinese trade and investment policy and its potential effects on RMB internationalization. Thesis: RMB internationalization is one small part of a larger more ambitious project: (1) External: An integral part of Chinese trade and development policies; an interlocking set of objectives to solidify the all around central position of China; (2) Internal: Core of socialist modernization and development of productive forces within China; situating China at center of global commerce essential for next stage of economic and political development.
Structures of discussion: (1) Situating RMB internationalization within broader issues of Chinese policy; (2) The OBOR initiative and related development efforts. Last section considers putting the pieces together; and (3) Tie it back to issues of reality (trade and investment use) and perception (consensus of others states)
Why are OBOR and RMB internationalization linked? (1) Stability; (2) Development; and (3) Control
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This presentation was prepared to support the induction process of new Board members of a Board I chaired for several years. It presents basic and introductory information sourced from various experts. It was intended to help Board members understand the role of the Board, their role as Board members and the difference between Board/policy and Operational roles. Feel free to use and adapt this slide show. I know how hard it is to Chair a volunteer Board and how frustrating it can be having to reinvent the wheel for processes like Board member induction. Some pictures would probably help this. A manual was also produced for distribution to Board members and that has been uploaded to Scribd.
Provides an overview of organization development (OD), focusing particularly on the intervention processes available. Categories or types of intervention are noted, and the depth of intervention is recognised as a key decision point for OD practitioners.
Instruments for improvement of Accountability and Governance in NGOsHumaneasy Consulting
Marilyn Wyatt (Consultant, Prague)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
2nd Conference "Ethics, Transparency and Responsability"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
Introduction and discussion about a proposed Education Standards Advisory Panel to provide an open, consensus‐based standards development process conforming to the Essential Requirements of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Discussion will include the panel's intent, the proposed policies/procedures, membership process and ANSI essential requirements upon which they're based.
Association Leadership: Board DevelopmentSteve Drake
Board excellence comes from knowing roles and responsibilities and practicing good habits. This presentation is the cornerstone of a 7-hour leadership development workshop for boards of the South Dakota Dairy Producers and Western Iowa Dairy Alliance. The sesssion was tailored for the needs the two groups expressed.
Leading ChangeIntroductionThe phrase leading change may gene.docxgauthierleppington
Leading Change
Introduction
The phrase
leading change
may generate a variety of emotions and reactions among individuals in an organization. Hope, optimism, excitement, relief, anxiety, and dismay are just a few of the thoughts and feelings that might be expressed by faculty, staff members, students, alumni, and others in a campus community. As a higher education professional, you should be prepared to lead others through change in a positive, collaborative manner and to encounter emotional and political resistance to change efforts.
This week, you will share experiences in which the political environment of your institution has impacted your efforts at collaborative change.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Propose ways to mitigate the negative influences of the political environment when leading change
Review the literature on organizational and program models
·
Discussion - Week 4
·
Collapse
·
Top of Form
·
In the Middle
In this week’s video, Dr. Adrianna Kezar, professor at the University of Southern California, discusses ways in which middle-level leaders can lead and support change at their institutions. In Chapter 22 of the course text (McClellan & Stringer, 2009), Stringer discusses the influences of the political environment in which higher education professionals work. In what ways might political issues work against or undermine collaborative leadership strategies such as those Kezar recommends?
By Wednesday:
Post
an example of an experience in which you were required to navigate a complex political environment at your institution. Explain how the politics of your institution may have worked against the collaborative leadership practices you were trying to achieve.
·
Bottom of Form
This is the
Media video in Close Caption
20
ABOUT CAMPUS / MAY
–
JUNE 2001
in higher education work to reform undergraduate education, particularly in order to provide new opportunities for student learning, we inevitably encounter roadblocks. My purpose here is to focus on the dynamics of organizational change inhigher education and to suggest ways to overcome these roadblocks. The assumption that drives this article is that those of us who work in postsecondary institutions need to rethink the structures that frame our work and reconsider the organizational cultures that define our lives. We cannot meet the increased demands of the twenty-first century without these efforts. James Duderstadt summarized the situation nicely in A University for the 21st Century:“ We face a future in which permanence and stability become less important than
flexibility and creativity, in which one of the few certainties will be the presence of continual change” (p. 35).
In research I have conducted on the campuses of fifteen four-year institutions over the last three years, I have interviewed over two hundred faculty members, deans, and senior administrators about the problems they feel they are confronting in their reform efforts. I have discovered that .
The Algorithms of Ideology in Economic Planning: A Critical Look at Cuba’s N...Larry Catá Backer
Short Abstract: The development plans of Marxist Leninist states are usually given short shrift as expressions of ideology (at best) and propaganda (at its most pathetic). Yet there is value in considering critically these development plans, if only to get a sense of the mindset of high level functionaries with control over macro-economic policy, and to get a sense of the administrative cultures within which governmental middle managers will actually exercise discretionary authority. Especially useful in that context is the Cuban Communist Party 7th Congress’s Conceptualización del modelo económico y social Cubano de desarrollo socialista: Plan nacional de desarrollo económico y social hasta 2030: Propuesta de vision de la nación, ejes y sectores estratégicos in which the PCC posited that development can be better managed by rejecting the central role of markets, and substituting state planning in its place, taking an all around view of economic planning as inextricably bound up in social, political and cultural progress of a nation. The resulting structural proposal elaborated in the Cuban National Economic and Social Development Plan 2030 (PNDES) suggests behavior and choice algorithms with interesting implications even if only partially realized. It is particularly important as a vision for transition developed in the wake of anticipated changes in higher leadership and the effects of normalization with the United States. This essay critically considers PNDES in the current context national and regional context. It starts with a brief analysis of PNDES for what it can reveal about entrenched ideological perspectives that shape decision making and analysis within Cuban Party and administrative elites. It then considers the way these appear to manifest themselves as a set of self-referencing decision systems that substitute or supplant market or regulatory determinations. Those premises are tested against Cuban approaches to the pharma sector, among the most important targets of centrally planned development. The essay ends with an assessment of the consequences of Cuban current approaches for national and regional affairs.
“One Belt One Road and RMB Internationalization—A Strategic Alliance” Larry Catá Backer
Focus: Consideration of the peripheral structures of Chinese trade and investment policy and its potential effects on RMB internationalization. Thesis: RMB internationalization is one small part of a larger more ambitious project: (1) External: An integral part of Chinese trade and development policies; an interlocking set of objectives to solidify the all around central position of China; (2) Internal: Core of socialist modernization and development of productive forces within China; situating China at center of global commerce essential for next stage of economic and political development.
Structures of discussion: (1) Situating RMB internationalization within broader issues of Chinese policy; (2) The OBOR initiative and related development efforts. Last section considers putting the pieces together; and (3) Tie it back to issues of reality (trade and investment use) and perception (consensus of others states)
Why are OBOR and RMB internationalization linked? (1) Stability; (2) Development; and (3) Control
Unpacking Accountability: The Multinational Enterprise, the State, and the In...Larry Catá Backer
Businesses, states and civil society are thought to be accountable. But to whome, and how? Effective imposition of accounting regimes requires a more nuanced understanding of the structures of the character and ecologies of accounting. Thesis:
In a working system of accountability Corporate Violations of Human Rights, Labor and Environmental Standards all stakeholders in the system must (1) bring each other to account, (2) be brought to account and (3) bring oneself to account.
The Privatization of Governance: Emerging Trends and ActorsLarry Catá Backer
Globalization's challenges, tensions and contradictions, indeed all of the variables that contribute toward the trajectory of globalization and its relationship to its principal actors, merely reinforce the primacy of globalization itself as a singular orthodoxy. And it is an orthodoxy that is itself embedded in the more fundamental governance orthodoxy of the mid-1945s from out of which the framework of its conception and operation was itself embedded. That orthodoxy itself posited a hierarchy in which politics served as the legitimating instrument of power, and that the state served as the apex organization of politics. That organization, itself, was expressed as the institutionalization of mass power framed within a set of fundamental substantive norms the limiting principles of which would be set by the community of states dominated by its leading members. Thus, the appearance of challenge and opposition that has been more sharply drawn since the start of this century might be understood as occurring within a carefully protected orthodoxy the object of which is to protect the primacy of politics (and law) with the state as its apex.
And yet, one of the great ironies of globalization is the way in which its effort to cement a framework orthodoxy after 1945 has served to overturn orthodoxy itself, and in its place, has ushered in an age of heterodoxy that is both ordered but anarchic. This presentation introduces some of the basic trends and actors that have emerged from out of the orthodox conceptual framework of globalization, and the extent to which these are contributing to its transformation as a vector of governance.
The Responsibilities of Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Financial Ins...Larry Catá Backer
Extractive industries have been at center of CSR and environmental responsibilities debates at the national and international level. It has been noted that "The sector faces unique social and environmental challenges when operating in developing countries. Faced with these challenges, a number of Canadian companies are engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, generally defined as the voluntary activities undertaken by a company to operate in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner" (Building the Canadian Advantage: A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector). These generally involve direct compliance. Domestic law focuses on the law and regulatory frameworks of home and host states. Soft law focuses on national (to a small extent) and more generally in international framing mechanisms and indigenous law (national an international). In addition, private law also applies--to the extent that extractive enterprises build their own internal governance systems applicable through their production chains worldwide.
But increasing there is a need to think about indirect compliance: especially the responsibilities of financial institutions, suppliers, and upstream customers to gauge their conduct by the legal/normative compliance of the extractives enterprise itself.
This presentation focuses on financial institutions and their responsibilities with respect to the human rights responsibilities of their borrowers.
Sovereign Wealth Funds, Capacity Building, Development, and Governance Larry Catá Backer
Abstract: Though operating in some form or another for over half a century, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) did not become an object of general attention until the early part of the 21st century when a combination of the need of developed states for investment and the growing acceptability of state investment in private markets abroad made them both threatening and convenient. Assured by the framework of the Santiago Principles most states now view SWFs as a useful multi-purpose sovereign investment vehicle. Yet over the last decade or so, SWFs appear to have developed the potential to become an important instrument in good governance and development, especially for resource rich and capacity poor developing states. Following the lead of Chile, and with the patronage of IFIs, these SWFs have begun to serve objectives as and with development banks both within and beyond their home state. This paper considers the capacity of SWFs to serve ends beyond mere fund value maximization as envisioned in the Santiago Principles. It explores the value of SWFs as a means of enhancing governance capacity in weaker states, its utility in enhancing development objectives, the emerging landscape of joint ventures among SWFs for development and their intersections with emerging infrastructure and development banks, and their importance in enhancing the operationalization of emerging international business and human rights standards not only within their own organizations but through their investment activities. A brief assessment of these trends ends the paper. Lastly it develops a set of transformative changes in approaches to SWF instrumentality that SWFs, especially the smaller SWFs and those in developing states, might deploy in structuring and operating their SWFs within a globalized economic order. These strategies are meant to avoid the circular characteristics of current discussions grounded on premises of finance instrument silos and state based systems that no longer accord with the realities of, and fail to take advantage of the possibilities now offered through, global finance and can be grouped into the three transforming categories suggested in Section III: regionalization strategies; financial objectives strategies; governance strategies.
Diversity in Legal Education: Considering the Hollow Spaces Between Speech an...Larry Catá Backer
Prepared for Event: All in at Penn State Law: Addressing Diversity & Implicit Bias; Sponsored by the Diversity Committee Penn State Law. March 16, 2017.
Institutions of post secondary education, has been struggling with the very hard work of moving from the embrace of flowery statements of solidarity respecting diversity to actually making it a lived reality in the environment in which students, staff, faculty and particularly administrators operate. (Statement From the Penn State University Faculty Senate Chair ). Much of the discussion has focused on obligation centers--students, faculty and others at the lowest end of the institutional pyramid. But fairly little attention has been paid to responsibility centers--middle Managers (deans and their staff), central university administrators. Is it time to refocus the analysis of diversity and diversity related programs from conformity at the bottom to shaping responsibility at the top? How does an institution create robust measures to assess and discipline those whose responsibility is to shape the organizational cultures of their units?
Presentation Delivered January 26, 2017Johns Hopkins University School of Education. his presentation will help to build a broader understanding of governance issues and models within academe and provide an overview of challenges to shared governance derived principally from a university model of faculty senate. Professor Backer has served as a member of Penn State’s University Faculty Senate in the capacities of Senate Chair, Parliamentarian, Representative for the Law School, and Chair, Co-Chair and Member of various senate committees. He maintains a website devoted to faculty voice entitled Monitoring University Governance with the mission of “promoting transparency and engagement in shared governance in universities and colleges.”
The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Financial Institutions for the Condu...Larry Catá Backer
Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be split along two distinct lines. The first touches on the nature of corporate personality and is rooted in domestic law regulating enterprises specifically and legal persons generally. The second touches on the nature of the rights of individuals and is rooted in international law (and sometimes domestic constitutional law) defining the scope of the human rights of individuals and the consequential obligations of states and legal persons. Both conversations intertwine though they tend to operate autonomously. In both cases, however, the traditional focus of corporate responsibility has focused on the relationship between an operating company and its direct effects on individuals, society and the environment. That discussion remains contentious, conflicted and unresolved. But it ignores a critical actor—the financial institutions which provide operating capital to enterprises. This paper considers the corporate social responsibilities of financial institutions, including sovereign wealth funds, for the conduct of their borrowers. The focus will be the extent of any duty or responsibility of lenders to ensure that their borrowers comply with CSR obligations (or alternatively conforms to international human rights standards) as a core aspect of their own CSR obligations (or alternatively) of their responsibility to respect human rights. Section II examines the general regulatory framework. There are two aspects that are relevant. The first is to understand the scope and character of the legal norms that may be applied to enterprises generally with respect to their operation’s that might be understood as CSR-human rights related in nature. The second is to consider the range of non-legal normative governance rules that might apply. In the process it will be important to distinguish between a CSR based regulatory approach and a human rights based approach. Section III considers the application of these norms to financial institutions. This requites distinguishing between those obligations that apply to the internal operations of financial institutions generally, and those obligations that apply to the financial institution’s obligations with respect to its lending activities, that is with respect to its relationship with its borrowers. The essay ends with a brief examination of recent cases in which financial institutions undertook such a responsibility, and the ways in which that obligation was undertaken. Three different types of institutions are considered—private banks, sovereign wealth funds and international financial institutions (IFIs). The paper ends with a preliminary consideration of the consequences of this movement for domestic CSR in the U.S.
Between the Judge and the Law—Judicial Independence and Authority With Chines...Larry Catá Backer
Abstract: What is the scope and nature of judicial reform? To what extent does borrowing from Western models also suggest an embrace of the underlying ideologies that frame those models? It is a common place in the West, whether in Common Law or Civil Law states, that the integrity of the judiciary depends on their authority to interpret law and to apply that interpretation to individual cases and the litigants that appear before the courts. That presumption, however, embeds premises about the organization of political and administrative authority that may be incompatible with those of states developing Socialist Rule of Law structures within Party-State systems. In Common law states those deep presumptions touch on the disciplinary role of judicial opinions as a constraint on judicial interpretation. In civil law states that discipline arises from the constraining principles of the legal codes themselves. In both the legislatures serve as the ultimate check in a complex dialogue with courts in three respects. First, judges serve a political role in their relation to law. Second, cases themselves serve an important political role as well. Third, courts begin to serve as the place where societal narratives are forged and popular expression is constructed and applied. In Socialist rule of law systems, the disciplinary systems are quite different and ought to produce a different relationship between courts, law, and the cases they are bound to apply fairly and consistently under law. This paper considers the way that the logic and grounding principles of Chinese Marxist Leninism may provide guidance in the construction of a judicial enterprise that is both true to its organizational logic and which enhances the authority of judges to serve litigants fairly. It suggests the points of compatibility and incompatibility in the ideologies of these distinct systems of judging and what it may mean for judicial reform in China. That consideration, in turn is based on a fundamental difference, in Socialist Rule of Law systems, between the authority to interpret law and the authority to apply law to an individual case. For Chinese judicial reform it is in the perfectibility of the judge that lies the perfectibility of law that in turn ensures the perfectibility of the judge. Part II considers in very broad strokes the relationship between the judge and law in the West. Part III then considers Chinese reforms touching on the relationship between the judge and the law, and the evolution of normative structures within which one can speak to judicial independence. Part IV then considers the project from the perspective of the grounding ideology of the Chinese state. From that fundamental distinction, the paper will propose a Socialist approach to the judicial function compatible with its own logic and legitimacy enhancing under global consensus principles for a well-organized and functioning judiciary.
中国,法律与外国人:国际舞台上的相互交融 ("China, Law, and the Foreigner: Mutual Engagements on a...Larry Catá Backer
外国人在中西法律交流中的角色类似于新中国前的情形。
这表明了中西法律交流的典型形态
这表明了中国人自身在“走出去”的战略中可以从中西法律交流中摄取经验。
内部思考:是否可以从党的“建设社会主义现代化”中发展出一套思维—以实事求是的态度来发展现代化。
外部:中国人是否可以避免西方曾经的错误,从而变成他国之上的“老外”?"China, Law, and the Foreigner: Mutual Engagements on a Global Stage," considered the structures of patterns of engagements between China and foreigners from the template well established by the end of the Qing dynasty. Drawing form those patterns, the paper developed a number of archetypes that I suggested could provide a useful framework for analysis. Those archetypes also suggested lessons for China as its now assumed the position of inferential foreigner in other states.
Central Planning Versus Markets Marxism: The Cuban Communist Party Confronts ...Larry Catá Backer
The 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party stands in stark contrast to its predecessor. The 6th PCC Congress appeared to usher in an era of at least limited opening up and the institutionalization of a private sector of sorts. Yet the 7th PCC Congress in many respects appeared to disappoint. Procedurally it appeared to mark a step back from the openness of the 6th Congress. And it offered little by way of political opening up, even an opening up ushering in more robust intra-Party democracy. Most importantly, the 7th PCC Congress appeared to fall far short of confronting the economic model reaffirmed in the 4th PCC Congress—a model of central planning and Soviet bureaucratic mechanisms substituting for any sort of markets based regulation of economic activity. This paper considers the potential and the missed opportunities of the 7th PCC Congress. A close reading of the 7th PCC Congress will suggest the limits of reform in Cuba. Ideological limits are suggested by a political timidity that has been built into the operating culture of the PCC. As a consequence the PCC is finding it hard to move even from soviet style central planning ideologies to Marxist market ideologies that have proven more successful in other states. The PCC is suffering from a paralysis that may be more dangerous to its long term authority than any machinations originating in its enemies. The paper ends with a consideration of options and likely movement over the short term moving forward.
China, Law and the Foreigner: Mutual Engagements on a Global StageLarry Catá Backer
Prepared for the Conference: “Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law”, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, July 9-10, 2016; Organized by Profgessors Xu Zhangrun and Chen Xinyu
Transnational Law and the Multinational Enterprise: From Legal Concept/Method...Larry Catá Backer
At first blush, transnational law’s engagement with TNCs reflects the situational and ad hoc approach of the transnational law project. Transnational law tends to focus on the TNC as an actor apart, like the state, within transnational law situational processes.
Like the state, TNCs are governance singularities into which law can be poured, extracting coherent action. It moves the TNC from the construction of a category to consequential instrumentalism
But is this relationship between TNCs and transnational law construct TNCs too restrictively?
Does it fail to describe the reality of TNCs (the problem of definition)?
Should we consider TNCs as a transnational legal order in its own right (the systems issue)?
Should we consider TNCs instead as the constitution of production chains (the conflation issue)?
Presented at “Jessup’s Bold Proposal: Engagements with 'Transnational Law’ after Sixty Years” Transnational Law Institute, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London, Friday-Saturday 1-2 July 2016
Normalization With Cuban Characteristics: How Might Cuba Navigate Normalizati...Larry Catá Backer
Cuba has constructed a tightly woven framework of macro-economic policy and political structures around a unique application of European Marxist-Leninism. That framework has proven durable even in the face of substantial economic crisis and a political situation increasingly subject to internal pressures. Closer working ties with the United States will only exacerbate the tensions and contradictions of the current system. If Cuba means to keep a Marxist-Leninist political structure, something will have to evolve.
Financial Sector Responsibility for Human Rights Conduct of Borrowers: What W...Larry Catá Backer
Extractive industries have been at center of CSR and environmental responsibilities debates at the national and international level
The sector faces unique social and environmental challenges when operating in developing countries. Faced with these challenges, a number of Canadian companies are engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, generally defined as the voluntary activities undertaken by a company to operate in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. Building the Canadian Advantage: A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector
To what extent are financial institutions responsible for the human rights breaches of their borrowers?
“While the obligation for the protection of human rights lies with the state, IFIs and their member states also have responsibilities to ensure that activities they support do not cause, or contribute to, human rights abuses by putting in place adequate safeguards.” Statement of Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to UN Human Rights Council. How might these obligations constrain borrowers?
Trail By Fire: Rana Plaza and Transnational Legal Orders Larry Catá Backer
Considering the construction of transnational legal orders through the lens of a deep study of the aftermath of the Rana Plaza Factory building collapse in 2013.
Analysis of the General Program of the Chinese COmmunist Party COnstitution as a basis for theorizing the fundamental principles of Chinese political and legal theory
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Senate Council Meeting Freeh Group Report 7 18-2012
1. Penn State University
Faculty Senate Council
Special Meeting
Considering Senate Responses to the Freeh Group Report
July 18, 2012
2. Purpose of Meeting
Background to Freeh Group Report
Responses by Board and Administration
Theme: Coordination of review and operationalization
Senate Response and role
Preserving procedural fairness
Operationalization
Coordination
Organization of Senate Response and Role
Open Discussion Going Forward And Additional Issues
4. Responses
Administration
Small group to coordinate operationalization of
recommendations
Board of Trustees
Small group, headed by Vice Chair, to coordinate Board
consideration of recommendations
Standing committees to determine recommendations
within their purview
Each to report back to coordinating committee
Students
5. Coordination
Board and Administration task forces will work autonomously
Both will report to Board coordinating committee
Senate will play a role
“As we move forward, there are many decisions that must be
made — decisions that are not without consequences and must
not be done without careful thought. Many of these decisions
involve individuals and practices deeply woven into the fabric
of our community.”
“All of this will take time.”
“Time to heal. Time to comprehend. Time to trust. Time to
transform. Time to regain what has been lost, and time to move
forward.” (Rod Erickson “Moving Forward from the Freeh
Report” July 16., 2012).
6. Senate Response and Role
Substantive Objectives
Procedural fairness
Operationalization of Recommendations
Identify recommendations within Senate’s governance role
Evaluate value/utility of recommendations
Propose specific changes in university rules
Coordination
7. Procedural Fairness
Review Freeh Group Report for process
related issues
Ensure scrupulous adherence to University procedures
fairly and consistently applied
Revocations of tenure/Contract non-renewals/Others?
Faculty Rights & Responsibilities HR 76.
Operationalization
Appointment of a task force to monitor procedural fairness
8. Process Intervention Rationale
Sensitivity to issues of process already part of Senate role
(e.g., FA review of procedural compliance by Board of
Trustees in administrative terminations
Avoid reliance on Post hoc protections (Standing
Committee on Tenure and HR 70 protects individuals but
the Senate role is to protect systemic integrity
Signal the importance of process fairness, fairly and
consistently applied as a core value of the emerging Penn
State culture
9. Operationalization
Identify recommendations within Senate purview
Consider means of implementation
Recommend specific forms of implementation
Address problematic recommendations
10. Coordination (1)
Senate:
Responds to initiatives of administration task
force
Serve as a resources and provide consultation
for Board initiatives
Participates in governance rule making
ordinary course consideration of final proposals for
change.
11. Coordination (2)
Senate Leadership
plays a “bridging role;”
Presents transparent, periodic, and
complete reports to Senate bodies
12. Organization of Senate Role and
Response
Options:
(1) Senate Council undertakes task as a Special Committee.
(2) Senate Council plays a coordinating role
devolves work on specific recommendations to Senate standing
committees
(3) Council does not play a coordinating role
Senate leadership assigns tasks to standing committees
(4) Special Task Force appointed for this task
Members drawn either from Senate Council, Senate, or from
faculty at large.
My preference is # 2 or # 4.
13. Issues For Decision
Will Senate Council Play Role in Responding to Freeh
Group Report?
Will Senate Council Form Task Force to Monitor
Procedural Fairness and Report to Senate?
Will Senate Council Approve Institutional
Organization/Coordination Efforts?
14. Open Discussion Going Forward
Update on the inclusion of Faculty Members on Board of
Trustees Committee
Connection between athletics and academics within the
normative framework: student-athlete
Response to NCAA investigations
Process by which the university is developing responses
IAC to take the lead
Settlements with victims
Percentage covered by insurance
Additional litigation
Effect on budget (UPC Charge)
15. Additional Efforts
Task Force Senate Self Study
Task Force Student Conduct Code
Task Force on Undergraduate Student Research
External Matters Sub Committee
mapping education in Pennsylvania