Subjects:

Public International Law

Contents:

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. Historical Evolution

2. Definitions

3. Classification

PART II. CONSULAR RELATIONS IN GENERAL

4. Consular Relations and Consular Posts

5. Acquisition of Consular Status

6. Termination of Consular Status

PART III. CONSULAR FUNCTIONS

7. Consular Functions

8. Protection of Nationals

9. Nationals Charged with Criminal Offences

10. Passport and Visa

11. Notarial and Registration Services

12. Marriage and Divorce

13. Estate Functions

14. Extradition and Civil Procedure

15. Informational, Cultural, Scientific, and Tourist Functions

16. Shipping

17. Promotion and Protection of Trade

18. Child Abduction

19. Refugees

20. Protection of Other Non-Nationals

PART IV. PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES

21. Privileges and Immunities

22. Facilities

23. Inviolability of Consular Premises

24. Writs of Process

25. Consular Archives and Documents

26. Freedom of Movement

27. Consular Communications

28. Protection and Inviolability of Consuls

29. Immunity from Local Jurisdiction: The Functional Approach

30. Immunity from Local Jurisdiction: The Diplomatic Approach

31. Immunity from Local Jurisdiction: Road Traffic Matters

32. Liability to Give Evidence

33. Social Legislation and Civic Service

34. Exemption from Taxation

PART V. HONORARY CONSULS

35. Honorary Consuls

PART VI. CONSULS, DIPLOMATS, AND THE UNITED NATIONS

36. Consuls as Diplomats

37. Diplomats as Consuls

38. Consuls and the United Nations

39. Performance of Consular Functions by Other Officials

PART VII. CONCLUSIONS

40. Relations between the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Other Treaties

41. Settlement of Disputes

42. Signature and Accession

43. Conclusions

APPENDICES

1. Recent Consular Treaties

2. The United Nations Conference on Consular Relations

3. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

4. The European Convention on Consular Functions

First published in 1961, Consular Law and Practice is a classic work of great interest and practical use to diplomats, consuls, and international lawyers.

When persons are out of their home country, consuls are their link with home and a source of assistance. The roles of consuls are many and varied. Consuls promote commerce between the home country and the host country and assist businesspeople in making contacts and in completing commercial transactions. Consuls also handle problems that arise for seafarers and merchant shipping vessels of the home country when they are in port in the host country. When a home country citizen dies while in the host country, consuls may facilitate burial or shipment of the remains home, or deal with the person's estate. Consuls assist individuals arrested on a criminal charge in the host state by visiting them in jail, advising them about the legal system of the host state, and helping to find them a lawyer. If the person is convicted, consuls visit them in prison and may help to secure a transfer to a prison in the home country.

This fully updated third edition explains consular privileges and immunities and how consular functions are handled in time of peace and war, when the receiving state experiences civil war, or when the sending and receiving states break off diplomatic or consular relations. It provides valuable background by describing how consular law developed historically and how it became solidified in 1963 in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. It explores the many bilateral consular treaties which supplement the Vienna Convention, examines the traditional and changing role of consuls, explains diplomatic privileges and immunities, and discusses the function of consuls as ambassadors in cultural and scientific exchange.

New to this edition:

• New chapter providing expanded coverage on the topical issue of nationals charged with criminal offences
• Discusses recent high-profile ICJ cases where one country has sued another for failing to facilitate contact between a person arrested and their consul- including cases against the USA