Diplomatic Law: A Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

This book is a commentary on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the universally-accepted framework for diplomacy between sovereign states. In this enlarged, rewritten and fully-updated second edition, Denza places each provision of the Convention in its historical context.

Denza, Eileen

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

The Three Pillars system of the European Union was intended to give flexibility to, and ultimately to extend the area over which the EU could exert its influence. Each of the pillars reflects a different level of integration and centralization, with the result that although the EU can't legislate in all areas, it can still have input into the more politically sensitive and complex policy areas. This analytical examination of the combination of public international law methods and Community methods at work in the EU is essential reading for all those with an interest in the future development of the EU.

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Diplomatic Law: Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (Oxford Commentaries on International Law)

The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has for over 50 years been central to diplomacy and applied to all forms of relations among sovereign States. Participation is almost universal. The rules giving special protection to ambassadors are the oldest established in international law and the Convention is respected almost everywhere. But understanding it as a living instrument requires knowledge of its background in customary international law, of the negotiating history which clarifies many of its terms and the subsequent practice of states and decisions of national courts which have resolved other ambiguities. Diplomatic Law provides this in-depth Commentary. The book is an essential guide to changing methods of modern diplomacy and shows how challenges to its regime of special protection for embassies and diplomats have been met and resolved. It is used by ministries of foreign affairs and cited by domestic courts world-wide. The book analyzes the reasons for the widespread observance of the Convention rules and why in the special case of communications - where there is flagrant violation of their special status - these reasons do not apply. It describes how abuse has been controlled and how the immunities in the Convention have survived onslaught by those claiming that they should give way to conflicting entitlements to access to justice and the desire to punish violators of human rights. It describes how the duty of diplomats not to interfere in the internal affairs of the host State is being narrowed in the face of the communal international responsibility to monitor and uphold human rights.

Diplomatic Law was first published in 1976. Written with the benefit of the author's deep and practical understanding of the subject as a Legal Counselor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it has become widely regarded as the leading work in the field. Denza places each provision of the Convention in its historical context; provides commentary on the application of the Convention by the UK, the US, and other States; and thoroughly examines topical problems in the field including the abuse of diplomatic immunity and terrorist violence. This fully updated new edition also highlights important new trends in the application of the Convention regime. It explores the interaction between State and diplomatic immunity (as shown in the Pinochet case), examines methods of establishing and conducting diplomatic relations under conditions of physical danger, and looks at increased evidence of disregard for the rules of secrecy in diplomatic communications. Denza also explores and the greater latitude for diplomats to 'interfere' in the internal affairs of the receiving State in the interest of protecting human rights and evaluates the impact of adoption of the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property.

This book is a commentary on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the universally accepted framework for diplomacy between sovereign states. In this enlarged, rewritten and fully-updated second edition, Denza places each provision of the Convention in its historical context.

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Diplomatic Law: A Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

The Intergovernmental Pillars of the European Union

Diplomatic Law: Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (Oxford Commentaries on International Law)

Diplomatic Law: Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (Oxford Commentaries on International Law)

Diplomatic Law: Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (Oxford Commentaries on International Law)

Diplomatic Law: A Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations