Screen LibraryThe doctrine of odious debt in international law : a restatement /
"There has been a considerable amount of recent writing in civil society, legal academia, among commercial lawyers, and in UN agencies and the World Bank about the doctrine of odious debt. The surge in interest arose after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003, and the claims by senior...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ;
125 |
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| Summary: |
"There has been a considerable amount of recent writing in civil society, legal academia, among commercial lawyers, and in UN agencies and the World Bank about the doctrine of odious debt. The surge in interest arose after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003, and the claims by senior members of US President George W Bush's administration that Iraq's debt might be regarded as odious. The core idea of the doctrine as traditionally presented is that some sovereign debt claims are not binding or enforceable on account of the creditor's awareness of the fact that the proceeds of the loan wo |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-212) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107128019 1107128013 |
| Index Number: | K4450 |
| CLC: | D996.2 |
| Call Number: | D996.2/K532 |
| Contents: | International law, sovereign debt and odious debt -- The status of odious debts in international law -- The enforceability of odious debts in domestic law. |