Oosterlinck, Kim; Panizza, Ugo; Weidemaier, W. Mark C.; … - 2021
This article introduces the Haitian Independence Debt of 1825 to the odious debt and sovereign debt literatures. We … argue that the legal doctrine of odious debt is surprisingly and perhaps indefensibly narrow possibly because of historical … contingency rather than any underlying logic or principle. The story of the Haitian Independence Debt of 1825 serves as an …