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Introductory Remarks by Margot E. Salomon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

Margot E. Salomon
Margot E. Salomon*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Economizing Justice in Times of Debt and Austerity
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 121 - 123
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 There is an abundance of literature, including empirical. See, e.g., David Harvey, A Brief Introduction to Neoliberalism (2005)

2 Alexis Tsipras, Greece Has Defied Doom-Mongers – Now the IMF Must Do Its Bit, Fin. Times (Apr. 14, 2016). See also, Ashoka Mody, The IMF's Big Greek Mistake, Bloomberg View (Apr. 21, 2015), at http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-21/imf-needs-to-correct-its-big-greek-bailout-mistake (“The required fiscal austerity was simply too great, causing the economy to collapse.”).

3 Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (UN Independent Expert on the Effects of Foreign Debt and Other Related International Financial Obligations of States on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights, Particularly Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), End of Mission Statement (Dec. 8, 2015), at http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IEDebt/EOM_Statement_Greece_IEForeignDebt_EN.pdf.

4 Rep. of the UN Independent Expert on the Effects of Foreign Debt and Other Related International Financial Obligations of States on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights, Particularly Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Mission to Greece, para. 57, UN Doc. A/HRC/31/60 (Feb. 26, 2016).

5 Id., para. 69.

6 Id., para. 35.

7 UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Concluding Observations on Greece, para. 36, UN Doc E/C.12/GRC/CO/2 (Oct. 9, 2015).

8 Id., para. 29.

9 Id., para 19.

10 Id., para. 23.

11 Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo & Goldmann, Matthias, An Incremental Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Sovereign Debt Sustainability as a Principle of International Law, 41 Yale J. Int'l L. (2016)Google Scholar.

12 G.A. Res. 69/319 (Sept. 29, 2015).

13 Robert Howse, Concluding Remarks in Light of International Law, in Sovereign Financing and International Law: The UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing 385, 387 (Carlos Espósito, Yuefen Li & Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky eds., 2013); Odette Lienau, Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation and Legitimacy in Modern Finance (2014).

14 Salomon, Margot E., Of Austerity, Human Rights and International Institutions, 21 Eur. L.J. 521 (2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 Margot E. Salomon & Olivier De Schutter, Legal Brief Prepared for the Special Committee of the Hellenic Parliament on the Audit of the Greek Debt: Economic Policy Conditionality, Socio-economic Rights and International Legal Responsibility: The Case of Greece 2010–2015 (June 15, 2015).

16 Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.