Mitu gulati biography of barack

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Mitu gulati biography of barack

How dire is the situation? Has the policy response been adequate? About We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society. Research We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society. I was responsible for thinking about some of these things.

He had, in fact, been thinking of such things for years. His father, an economist in India, specialized in international finance. His work in this field led to collaborations with Cleary partner Lee Buccheit, who currently represents the Iraqi government in its debt restructuring; Buccheit will co-teach with Gulati a short course on "Law, Ethics, and International Finance" in the coming academic year.

Most recently, the two have collaborated on scholarship relating to sovereign bonds and questions of "odious debts," those collected by previous "odious" governments, often through corruption or nefarious means. Some commentators suggest that states should have the right to completely repudiate debts incurred by these regimes. But Gulati and Buccheit argue, in a forthcoming article written with Robert Thompson of Vanderbilt Law School, in favor of independent scrutiny of each contractual debt.