Diplomatic Law in a New Millennium

The granting of diplomatic asylum to Julian Assange, the dangers faced by diplomats in troublespots around the world, WikiLeaks and the publication of thousands of embassy cable - situations like these place diplomatic agents and diplomatic law at the very centre of contemporary debate on current affairs.

Diplomatic Law in a New Millennium brings together 20 experts to provide insight into some of the most controversial and important matters which characterise modern diplomatic law. They include diplomatic asylum, the treatment (and rights) of domestic staff of diplomatic agents, the inviolability of correspondence, of the diplomatic bag and of the diplomatic mission, the immunity to be given to members of the diplomatic family, diplomatic duties (including the duty of non-interference), but also the rise of diplomatic actors which are not sent by States (including members of the EU diplomatic service). This book explores these matters in a critical, yet accessible manner, and is therefore an invaluable resource for practitioners, scholars and students with an interest in diplomatic relations. The authors of the book include some of the leading authorities on diplomatic law (including a delegate to the 1961 conference which codified modern diplomatic law) as well as serving and former members of the diplomatic corps.

List of contents

• Part I - Introduction


• 1: Paul Behrens: Diplomatic Law in a New Millennium


• 2: Brian Barder: A former diplomat's reflections on the Vienna Convention


• 3: J Craig Barker: In Praise of a Self-Contained Regime: Why the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations Remains Important Today


• Part II - History


• 4: Nelson Iriñiz Casás: Views of a Delegate to the 1961 Vienna Conference


• 5: Kai Bruns: On the Road to Vienna: The Role of the International Law Commission in the Codification of Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities, 1949-1958


• Part III - Personal Immunity


• 6: Paul Behrens: The personal inviolability of diplomatic agents in emergency situations


• 7: Simonetta Stirling-Zanda: The Privileges and Immunities of the Family of the Diplomatic Agent: the Current Scope of Article 37(1)


• 8: Lisa Rodgers: The inviolability of diplomatic agents in the context of employment


• 9: Wolfgang Spadinger: Private Domestic Staff: A risk group on the fringe of the convention


• Part IV - Property Immunity


• 10: Yinan Bao: The Protection of Public Safety and Human Life vs the Inviolability of Mission Premises: A Dilemma faced by the Receiving State


• 11: Juan Falconi Puig: Contemporary Developments Relating to the Inviolability of Mission Premises


• 12: Péter Kovács and Tamás Vince Ádány: The Non-Customary Practice of Diplomatic Asylum


• 13: Patricio Grané Labat and Naomi Burke: The Protection of Diplomatic Correspondence in the Digital Age: Time to Revise the Vienna Convention?


• 14: Sana Sud: The Diplomatic Duffle Disparity - A Third World Perspective


• Part V - Diplomatic Duties


• 15: Sanderijn Duquet and Jan Wouters: Legal Duties of Diplomats Today


• 16: Paul Behrens: The Duty of Non-Interference


• Part VI - Beyond the VCDR


• 17: Alison Duxbury: Intersections between Diplomatic Immunities and the Immunities of International Organisations


• 18: Graham Butler: The European Union and Diplomatic Law: An Emerging Actor in Twenty-First Century Diplomacy


• 19: Francesca Dickson: Skirting Officialdom: Sub-State Diplomats and the VCDR Lessons from Scotland and Wales


• Part VII - Concluding Thoughts


• 20: Paul Behrens: Diplomatic Law Today: Has the Vienna Convention met its expectations?

About the author

Dr Paul Behrens is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Law at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Paul Behrens is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the Surrey International Law Centre and the Scottish Centre for International Law, Associate of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and member of the Society of Legal Scholars.

Dr Behrens' particular research interests lie in the fields of diplomatic and consular law and international criminal law. He is author of Diplomatic Interference and the Law (Hart Publishing 2016), co-editor of The Criminal Law of Genocide (Ashgate 2007) and Elements of Genocide (Routledge 2012) and has written numerous articles in these fields. At Edinburgh, he teaches the LLM courses on diplomatic and consular law and on international criminal law. Dr Behrens has been visiting lecturer and researcher at the universities of Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. Dr Behrens regularly contributes to newspapers (including Guardian, Scotsman, Süddeutsche Zeitung) on issues of constitutional and international law and has given radio and television interviews on these topics.`

Summary

The granting of diplomatic asylum to Julian Assange, the dangers faced by diplomats in troublespots around the world, WikiLeaks and the publication of thousands of embassy cable - situations like these place diplomatic agents and diplomatic law at the very centre of contemporary debate on current affairs.

Diplomatic Law in a New Millennium brings together 20 experts to provide insight into some of the most controversial and important matters which characterise modern diplomatic law. They include diplomatic asylum, the treatment (and rights) of domestic staff of diplomatic agents, the inviolability of correspondence, of the diplomatic bag and of the diplomatic mission, the immunity to be given to members of the diplomatic family, diplomatic duties (including the duty of non-interference), but also the rise of diplomatic actors which are not sent by States (including members of the EU diplomatic service). This book explores these matters in a critical, yet accessible manner, and is therefore an invaluable resource for practitioners, scholars and students with an interest in diplomatic relations. The authors of the book include some of the leading authorities on diplomatic law (including a delegate to the 1961 conference which codified modern diplomatic law) as well as serving and former members of the diplomatic corps.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Paul Behrens, Dr. Paul (Lecturer Behrens, Dr. Paul (Reader (Associate Professor) in Behrens
• Assisted by: Paul Behrens (Editor), Behrens Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780198795940
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879594-0
• No. of pages: 434
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Diplomacy, Public international law: diplomatic law, Diplomatic law