Kupelyants, Hayk --- "Police powers of the state in sovereign debt restructurings" [2017] ELECD 461; in Tams, J. Christian; Schill, W. Stephan; Hofmann, Rainer (eds), "International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 89

Book Title: International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture

Editor(s): Tams, J. Christian; Schill, W. Stephan; Hofmann, Rainer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785368875

Section: Chapter 4

Section Title: Police powers of the state in sovereign debt restructurings

Author(s): Kupelyants, Hayk

Number of pages: 31

Abstract/Description:

The chapter examines the right of States to unilaterally modify their debt obligations in the context of sovereign debt restructurings. Drawing on the national case law on the unilateral modifications of domestic debt, the chapter argues that the States entering into sovereign bonds act in a private capacity and have limited police powers to modify the private obligations in a unilateral manner. The chapter also considers the powers of the State to modify private-to-private debt obligations and the debt entered into by quasi-public entities. Keywords: sovereign debt restructurings, domestic debt