
B.A. psychology, (Carleton College); Graduate course work in clinical psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, J.D., University of Minnesota
weidemaier@unc.edu
Mark Weidemaier is the Ralph M. Stockton, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). His teaching and research interests involve the intersection between contracts and dispute resolution in domestic and international settings, as well as issues related to the structure and enforcement of sovereign debt. He blogs about these subjects on Credit Slips. At UNC, Weidemaier teaches Contracts, Commercial Arbitration, Government Borrowing and Restructuring, and Litigation Risk Management.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, Weidemaier clerked for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then practiced law in the complex commercial litigation group at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia and worked at the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Goverment. He is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
A Debt of Dishonor, Boston Univ. Law Review (forthcoming), (with Kim Oosterlinck, Ugo Panizza, and Mitu Gulati), May 2022 – Read More
Piercing the (Sovereign) Veil: The Role of Limited Liability in State-Owned Enterprises, 46 B.Y.U. L. REV. 795 (2021). – Read More
Unlawfully-Issued Sovereign Debt, VA. J. INT’L L. (forthcoming) (with M. Gulati). – Read More
The Odious Haitian Independence Debt, with Kim Oosterlink, Ugo Panizza, Mark Weidemaier, Mitu Gulati, August 2021 – Read More
When Governments Promise to Prioritize Public Debt: Do Markets Care?, 6 J. FIN. REG. (Forthcoming 2020) (with U. Panizza, M. Gulati, and G. Willingham). – Read More
Restructuring Euro Area Sovereign Debt: Have the Options Narrowed?, 6 Journal of Financial Regulation 125, 2020 – Read More
Necessity and the Covid-19 Pandemic, with Mitu Gulati, 15 Capital Markets Law Journal 277, July 2020 – Read More
Lenders’ Roles and Responsibilities in Sovereign Debt Markets, 2019 UNIV. ILL. L. REV. 1589 (2019) (with S. Block-Lieb). – Read More
The Ransom: A Look Under the Hood, The New York Times, May 2022 – Read More
Creditors To Face Headaches As Russian Default Looms, Law360, Apr. 18, 2022 – Read More
Ukraine wants allies to seize Russian assets to fund its reconstruction. How would that work?, Fortune, April 12, 2022 – Read More
What happens to foreign bondholders if Russia defaults on its billions of dollars in sovereign debt?, Bloomberg, Mar. 9, 2022
PDVSA Says Creditor’s Targeting Of Citgo Shares Is Illegal, Law360, Mar. 3, 2022 – Read More
Elon Musk Never Wanted to be CEO, Bloomberg, July 13, 2021 – Read More
Litigating a Russian Bond Default, Transnational Litigation Blog, TLB, Apr. 6, 2022 – Read More
Russia’s Perplexing Sovereign Bonds, JustMoney.org, April 20, 2022, (with Mitu Gulati) – Read More
Piercing the Sovereign Veil, Oxford Business Law Blog, May 28, 2021 – Read More
Might PBA Creditors Take a Lesson From the Black Widow?, Creditslips.org, Sept. 6, 2021, (with Mitu Gulati) – Read More
More on Belize: Marine Conservation is Nice; Deeper Haircuts Are Better, CreditSlips.org, Oct. 11, 2021 – Read More
That Odd Sri Lankan Airline Guaranteed Bond, Creditslips.org, April 16, 2022, (with Mitu Gulati) – Read More
How to Destroy the Collective Action Clause, Creditslips.org, April 15, 2022, (with Mitu Gulati) – Read More
The Alternative Payment Currency Event Clause in Russian Sovereign Bonds, Creditslips.org, Mar. 9, 2022, (with Mitu Gulati) – Read More
Are Russian Sovereign Bonds Now Worthless?, Creditslips.org, Mar. 7, 2022 – Read More
Here’s How Messy a Russian Bond Default Could Be, Odd Lots Podcast, Mar. 21, 2022, – Listen Here