Abstract
In a sense, all debts are odious; that is, to use dictionary definitions, "hateful; disgusting; offensive." Yet insofar as international economic law today is concerned, only a certain few debts can be considered "odious debts" in order to contest and perhaps eventually to repudiate them. Here, Feinerman examines the concepts of odious debt and related international legal phenomena, in both historical and contemporary context, with a view of determining the role that denomination of certain debts as odious may play in the overall process of sovereign debt rescheduling.
Citation
James V. Feinerman,
Odious Debt, Old and New: The Legal Intellectual History of an Idea,
70 Law and Contemporary Problems
193-220
(Fall 2007)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol70/iss4/8