International law on sovereign defaults is underdeveloped because States have largely refrained from adjudicating disputes arising out of public debt. The loomi

This book fills the normative gap arising from the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring.

This book outlines how odious debts are not legally binding under international or domestic law, contrary to widely held legal opinion.

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of pertinent issues on sovereign debt restructurings, based on a newly constructed database. This is the first comple

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