Mr. Jeff A. King, M.St (Oxon), LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), BA Hons (Ottawa), is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL, where he conducts research on sovereign debt.  Mr. King’s work at the CISDL focuses on the legal validity of sovereign debt, and on advising non-profit groups about public international law issues such as sovereign debt and state succession, sovereign immunity, internationalarbitration rules, and legal history of the doctrine of odious debt.  His analysis of the odious debt doctrine, posted in a working paper since 2003 on the CISDL website, has been discussed in a variety of scholarly journals.  It is currently being revised for a forthcoming restatement of the doctrine to beissued in a book on the subject of odious debt.  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.  He has published work in the Journal of the History of International Law, the Modern Law Review, and in an edited volume shortly forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press. Mr. King speaks English, French, Spanish, and basic German.  He is a member of the American Society of International Law, the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, and the New York State Bar Association.