Table 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.`