Odious debt wears two faces: systemic illegitimacy, problems, and...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......repudiation of Iraq's sovereign debt incurred under...traditional notion of odious debt as a method of repudiating sovereign debt may undergo a...the concept of odious debt can be traced...constituting modern odious debt doctrine has...

Odious debt.

Finance & Development;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......legal doctrine of odious debt makes an analogous argument that sovereign debt incurred without the...done to eliminate odious debt? In a recent study...legitimate and declare any sovereign debt subsequently incurred...A new approach to odious debt As it ...

Odious debt: when dictators borrow, who repays the loan?

Brookings Review;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......embargo is a concept known as odious debt. Odious Debt By law, in most countries, individuals...subsequently elaborated a doctrine of odious debt, arguing that sovereign debt should not be transferable to...call attention to the concept of odious debt by ...

Equitable subordination, fraudulent transfer, and sovereign debt.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......debates over sovereign debt have primarily...mechanism for odious debt relief. Other...the problem of odious debt, this article...been applied to sovereign debt by U.S. courts...benefit to a sovereign debtor should...liability. Defining odious debt ...

Odious debt, old and new: the legal intellectual history of an idea.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......concepts of odious debt and related...process of sovereign debt rescheduling...concept of odious debt. It then proceeds...renunciation of sovereign debt obligations...repudiation of sovereign debt as odious was the 1981...

What Iraq and Argentina Might Learn from Each Other

Chicago Journal of International Law;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......elsewhere in this volume. The sovereign debt workouts now underway in...Argentina offer for the law of sovereign debt, and suggests lessons that...second half, I look at the Odious Debt Doctrine, which is experiencing...governments do not use the Odious Debt Doctrine to ...

The due diligence model: a new approach to the problem of odious debts.

Ethics & International Affairs;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Odious debt is sovereign debt incurred by a government lacking...repudiate inherited debts meeting the odious debt standard. Whether international...illegitimate regimes do not invoke the odious debt doctrine, out of fear that doing...

Odious debt in retrospect.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......misplaced but, second, that the concept of odious debt is a potentially effective organizing...last section of this essay considers the odious debt concept as an organizing device. However...conclusion that ex ante development of an odious debt doctrine or other legal mechanism ...

The odious debt doctrine after Iraq.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...I INTRODUCTION The odious debt doctrine has experienced...calls to invoke the odious debt doctrine to repudiate...back away from the odious debt doctrine similarly...addressing inequities in sovereign debt burdens. This note...repudiation tool for sovereign ...

Odious, not debt.(Odious Debts and State Corruption Conference)

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the Doctrine of Odious Debt. (1) As formulated in 1927, Odious Debt allows governments...countries have invoked Odious Debt as grounds for repudiation...past eighty years, Odious Debt's rhetorical appeal...explanations for Odious Debt's disuse ...

Sovereign debt restructuring, odious debt, and the politics of debt...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...I INTRODUCTION Odious debt is more of a literature than a doctrine...The goal of those who support a robust odious debt doctrine is to inhibit lending for projects...practice that would justify describing the odious debt doctrine as an actual part of international...extant leaders. The ...

DEVELOPMENT: INDEBTED NATIONS MUST PAY TO PLAY, CREDITORS SAY

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that ended Tuesday at the United Nations. Entitled "Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development: Issues for Countries that...to be middle-income countries. On the question of "odious debt" -- referring to debts not created in the interest...said the Paris Club never recognised the concept of ...

Devilry, complicity, and greed: transitional justice and odious...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......these volumes reveal, issues relating to odious debt and contemporary efforts to expand the odious debt doctrine to cover all debts of odious...simple. In particular, any analysis of odious debt must account for issues that inhere to...

A QUARTER CENTURY OF SOVEREIGN DEBT MANAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW

Georgetown Journal of International Law;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......intellectual activity in the field of sovereign debt management since that date. The first...refuse to play? And most important, was sovereign debt restructuring a game limited exclusively...1993. The vexing question of whether sovereign debt could ever be reduced, as opposed to...

Odious debt. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)

Finance & Development;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......address a politically sensitive issue in Odious Debt (June 2002). Clarification of what constitutes odious debt and consensus on a solution are needed...people's consent in itself constitute odious debt. Government representatives are supposed...