Larry Catá Backer (born 1 February 1955) is a Cuban-American legal scholar and professor of law and international affairs.
He holds a professorship at the Penn State University, and is the W.
Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar Professor of Law and International Affairs, Penn State Law and School of International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University (2001–), Ashgate Publishing Globalization Law & Policy Series editor (2010–), and the executive director of the Washington-based NGO Coalition for Peace and Ethics (2006–).A prominent comparative corporate and international law scholar
and a leading researcher in constitutional law,
Professor Backer is a member of the American Law Institute and the European Corporate Governance Institute.
He has served as a grant peer reviewer for The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law in the Netherlands, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and others.