Diplomatic and consular law 2104-1ZM5PDKO

Diplomacy and the Diplomatic Law: basic terms, history, sources and codification of diplomatic law. Organs of States in International Relations. Role of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Establishment of diplomatic relations between States and its legal meaning. Beginning and Termination of a diplomatic mission. Classes, ranks and titles of heads of mission and members of mission. Meaning of conventional phrases. Corps diplomatique and rules of precedence. The functions of a diplomatic mission and diplomatic agents. Diplomatic privileges and immunities. Special missions in the past and nowadays. Diplomatic Law of international organizations. Rules of Conference Diplomacy. Abuses of Diplomatic Law in times of conflicts. Diplomatic Correspondence. Diplomatic Protocol.
The importance of a consul officer in the international system. The roots of the consular law: the emergence of the consular law in ancient Greece and Rome, the role of a consular officer in the medieval era, differences between common and conventional law. Codification. Representative character of a consular officer, the active and passive rights of consulates, the consulate's law and the question of recognition, separation between diplomatic and consular service. Consular personal, different types of consular officers (career and honorary consul), different grades and classes of consular officers, auxiliary personnel. The beginning and severance of a consular post: appointment of consular officer, territorial range, evolution of consular functions (general functions, administrative and judicial functions, in the air and sea regulations), causes of the severance of a consular post. Reason and basis of consular privileges and immunities: Reason for a privileged consular officer's position, material, personal and territorial range, the importance of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963.