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...concept of odious debt. It then proceeds...doctrines of international law which relate...invocation of odious debt as a rationale...ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ISSUES: STATE SUCCESSION AND ODIOUS ...

The Limits of International Law.(Book review)

Ethics & International Affairs;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Limits of International Law, Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric...assumptions in mainstream international law in the United States have...which often presents a view of international law that gives primacy to U.S...

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. Going...have to pay for the debts incurred by a prior odious regime when those funds did not benefit these...supported by the observation that it may deprive odious regimes of access to funds and hence hasten...demise. The goal of ...

Executive power v. international law.(International Rule of Law)

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......had an uneasy relationship with international law. If it is true that most states follow most international law most of the time, that probably...too. Whether Presidents follow international law out of a belief that they, and...

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

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......issues relating to odious debt and contemporary efforts to expand the odious debt doctrine to cover...ranging from the international law of state succession...any analysis of odious debt must account for...incurred by an odious forebear. The results...incurred by ...

DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW MATTER?

American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...REMARKS BY DAVID D. CARON* "Does international law matter?" That such a skeptical question...troubling. The question of whether international law matters echoes older questions we...have very high expectations that international law, like all of law, should matter and...

Should international law be part of our law?

Stanford Law Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION I. THE RISE AND COMPOSITION OF RAW INTERNATIONAL LAW A. Reasons for the Rise of Raw International Law 1. Global spillover effects 2. Universalism 3. International law as an expression of juristocracy B. The Components...

Odious debt, odious credit, economic development, and...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......The standard international-law response is...background norm of international law applies as...repudiates public international law obligations...3) A. The Odious Debt Problem At...creating an odious debt exception to...incidents, the international ...

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

Brookings Review;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...When the international community wants to put...is a concept known as odious debt. Odious Debt By law, in most countries...to bind the firm. But international law does not exempt citizens...elaborated a doctrine of odious debt, arguing that sovereign...But the ...

India and International Law.(Book review)

American Journal of International Law;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...India and International Law. Edited by Bimal N. Patel. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff...centennial celebration, the American Society of International Law reached out to international law societies to continue the process of learning...

STATE DEPT.: SCHOLAR DISCUSSES GROWING ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 8, 2006 ;     587 words ......EricssonWashington File Staff Writer International law covers more than just relations between...president of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). What is more, international law is not just the domain of governments...

And justice for all?: The new era of international law. (Editor's...

Harvard International Review;  March 22, 2002 ;     435 words ...International law is the object of both great hope...international crime in history, many view international law as a prerequisite for justice...resisted by many, and for good reason. International law demands the limitation of state...

How International Law Works: A Rational Choice Theory.

M2 Presswire;  July 29, 2008 ;     570 words ......2008-Research and Markets: How International Law Works: A Rational Choice...the addition of the How International Law Works: A Rational Choice...report to their offering. How International Law Works presents a theory...

International Law

Canadian Encyclopedia;      700+ words ......Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 International Law Author: EMILY F. CARASCO International law is the body of rules that governs...although in the human rights area international law, in some instances, may be directly...

The comparative disadvantage of customary international law.(International...

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...International law is as important a topic as any to our future legal regime. International law increasingly infiltrates the domestic...Supreme Court justices appear to use international law, including unratified customary international...