Mr. Jeff King, LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), BA Hons (Ottawa), is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL, where he coordinates the Centre’s work on sovereign debt research.  Mr. King’s work at the CISDL focuses on the legal validity of sovereign debt, and advising non-profit groups about issues such as the status of public international law concerning sovereign debt, sovereign immunity, international arbitration rules, and legal history of the doctrine of odious debt.  He is currently coordinating the legal work of an international advocacy campaign concerning the debt of the state of Iraq, advising on how arbitration may legally be set into motion and various related public and private law issues.  His analysis of the odious debt doctrine, posted in a working paper since 2003 on the CISDL website, has been cited in publications by the Washington-based Cato Institute, Prof. Michael Kremer of Harvard, and has been translated into German by the non-profit group Ehrlassjahr.  Mr. King is a member of the Bar of New York, and from 2003-2004 he worked in corporate practice with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City.  His practice focused on project finance transactions with public corporations, mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of municipal securities, banking regulation, and various administrative law, bankruptcy and arbitration matters.  Most work involved cross-border transactions.  He also litigated and won two asylum cases while there, and helped draft a winning brief in a third. Prior to this work, he published an article with a Dutch journal on the history of human rights at the United Nations, and a book on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with the New York based Center for Economic and Social Rights and Sri Lankan Law & Society Trust.   He currently works as a consultant for the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Litigation Programme, preparing litigation documents for complaints under the Revised European Social Charter (1996).  Mr. King speaks English, French, Spanish and German.