Abstract
In the half-century since the adoption of its text, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations has done great service by providing specificity on the obligations of receiving States to let consuls do their work, in particular their work of protecting co-nationals who find themselves in the receiving State. By virtue of a jurisdictional protocol appended to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the International Court of Justice has been opened to state parties who seek to hold other state parties to their consular law obligations. In recent years, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations has featured prominently as a protective device for persons arrested on criminal charges outside their state of nationality. The International Court of Justice has given details on the obligations of a receiving State in this situation, thereby making clear how this important protective device must be implemented.
Recommended Citation
John B. Quigley,
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: In Retrospect and into the Future,
38
S. Ill. U. L.J.
1
(2013).
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/siulj/vol38/iss1/1