New York Times on Gulati

The New York Times had an article yesterday on Mitu Gulati's work on sovereign debt.  Here's a sample:

Mitu Gulati, a charismatic law professor at Duke, and Lee C. Buchheit, the philosopher king of sovereign debt lawyers and a lead adviser to Greece on the deal, see themselves as sovereign debt taboo-busters. And they are not shy about pressing their views, as Mr. Gulati did with characteristic wit at a sovereign debt conference here last week.

Instead of presenting an arcane paper on debt guarantees, Mr. Gulati titillated his audience by calling for other heavily indebted countries in Europe to carry out their own Greek-style swaps, albeit with smaller haircuts for creditors because the other nations are not as deeply indebted as Athens is.

“Lee probably could not say this, but I can because I don’t have clients,” Mr. Gulati said with a chuckle, as he offered his apologies that Mr. Buchheit could not attend. “Although I wish these were the views of Lee’s clients.” 

H/t Gregg Polsky.

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Charismatic is a bit of a stretch, though it was later modified with a "slouchy" description of Mitu