Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law & the Making of Latin America

Join the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future for the next event in the International History Institute’s (IHI) Spring 2025 “History of International Law” speaker series. Edward Jones Corredera (Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) will discuss his new book, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law & the Making of Latin America." Felipe Ford Cole (Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School) will serve as a discussant. With a focus on the early modern Spanish Empire and modern Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina, and based on archival research carried out across seven countries, "Odious Debt" studies 400 years of history and unearths overlooked congressional debates and understudied thinkers. The book shows how discussions on the morality of debt and default played a structuring role in the construction and codification of national constitutions, identities, and international legal norms in Latin America. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 26 from 4:00-5:30 pm. The series is open to the public. Please register to attend.

When 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 26 February 2025
Building Pardee School, Riverside Room - 1st Floor, 121 Bay State Road