A custody battle over an unofficial history of China is the subject of a legal fight pitting the widow of retired Communist Party official, Li Rui, against her stepdaughter and Stanford University.
Odious debt, old and new: The legal intellectual history of an idea
(January 1, 2007) In a sense, all debts are odious; that is, to use dictionary definitions, “hateful; disgusting; offensive.”1 Yet insofar as international economic law today is concerned, only a certain few debts can be considered “odious debts” in order to contest and perhaps eventually to repudiate them.