{"title":"Sovereign Debt and Exclusions from Insolvency Proceedings","authors":"J. L. Westbrook","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2478856","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Underlying this short paper are two propositions. The first is that three forms of exclusion from bankruptcy laws or bankruptcy-like procedures represent a serious threat to the global financial system that has developed since the Second World War. The exclusions are sovereign default, SIFI default, and default on derivative contracts. The second proposition is that the danger to the financial system represented by these exclusions is greatly increased by the fact that the three excluded phenomena are strongly interactive and reinforcing. These two propositions were the subject of a symposium held at The University of Texas School of Law in February of 2013.The excellent conference organized by Professor Christopher Paulus addresses sovereign default directly and implicates the SIFI and derivative defaults indirectly. In this paper I will write in a preliminary way about sovereign debt, including the United States experience with debt at the level of individual states of the United States; and about the derivative exemption from bankruptcy as it relates to sovereign debt.","PeriodicalId":296385,"journal":{"name":"University of Texas School of Law","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"University of Texas School of Law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2478856","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Underlying this short paper are two propositions. The first is that three forms of exclusion from bankruptcy laws or bankruptcy-like procedures represent a serious threat to the global financial system that has developed since the Second World War. The exclusions are sovereign default, SIFI default, and default on derivative contracts. The second proposition is that the danger to the financial system represented by these exclusions is greatly increased by the fact that the three excluded phenomena are strongly interactive and reinforcing. These two propositions were the subject of a symposium held at The University of Texas School of Law in February of 2013.The excellent conference organized by Professor Christopher Paulus addresses sovereign default directly and implicates the SIFI and derivative defaults indirectly. In this paper I will write in a preliminary way about sovereign debt, including the United States experience with debt at the level of individual states of the United States; and about the derivative exemption from bankruptcy as it relates to sovereign debt.