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Origin Myths, Contracts, and the Hunt for Pari Passu

  1. Mark Weidemaier1,*,
  2. Robert Scott2,*,
  3. Mitu Gulati3,*

Article first published online: 25 APR 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2012.01313.x

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Law & Social Inquiry

Law & Social Inquiry

Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 72–105, Winter 2013

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Weidemaier, M., Scott, R. and Gulati, M. (2013), Origin Myths, Contracts, and the Hunt for Pari Passu. Law & Social Inquiry, 38: 72–105. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2012.01313.x

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  1. 1

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. 2

    Columbia Law School

  3. 3

    Duke Law School

* Mark Weidemaier is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He can be contacted at weidemaier@unc.edu.
Robert Scott is Alfred McCormack Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He can be contacted at rscott@law.columbia.edu.
Mitu Gulati is Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He can be contacted at gulati@law.duke.edu.

  1. We extend our thanks to the many lawyers who agreed to discuss their work with us and to the librarians and archivists at Rothchilds, Barings, HSBC, UBS, the Morgan Library, Guildhall, the Library of Congress, Duke, and Cornell. For sharing bonds from their personal collections, we also thank Michael Bradley, Mike Tomz, Arturo Porzecanski, Lee Buchheit, and Juan Flores. For comments on prior drafts, we thank Mitchel Abolafia, Al Brophy, Lee Buchheit, John Coates, John Conley, Anna Gelpern, Don Hornstein, Melissa Jacoby, Kim Krawiec, Don Langevoort, John Orth, Mark Osiel, Annelise Riles, and Lawrence Solan. We owe a special thanks to Emily Johnson, who tracked down Colonel George E. Church and quite possibly the first sovereign holdout case.

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  2. Article first published online: 25 APR 2012

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