Odious Debt, Old and New: The Legal Intellectual History of an Idea

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

The Evolving Chinese Enterprise

If, indeed, Chinese enterprises are becoming the equivalent of Western corporations, then what does Chinese corporate law look like? Are there corresponding legal enactments which support the historic decentralization of China\u27s industrial production and embrace of market mechanisms? Briefly, the answer is, Yes, there are Chinese laws which embody many of these changes. Recent legislation detailing the newest powers of Chinese enterprises and factory managers is, in fact, merely the latest lawmaking in an area which has seen prodigious activity since 1978. This article will first attempt to analyze the stages of economic and legal reform which have resulted in the present state of the Chinese enterprise and then suggest the prospects for future development in the light of recent legislatio

The Disposition of Cases Involving Juvenile Delinquents in the People's Republic of China

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