Quigley on Diplomatic and Consular Law in the Age of Empire @OSU_Law @CambridgeUP

John Bernard Quigley, Ohio State University College of Law, is publishing Diplomatic and Consular Law in the Age of Empire in The Cambridge History of International Law (Randall Lesaffer, general editor, Stephen C. Neff, volume editor, Cambridge University Press). Here is the abstract.

Diplomatic and consular law underwent significant alterations in Europe in the nineteenth century as result of changes in the political and international order. With the expansion of trade, European states came to exchange envoys with states in other continents. Envoys increasingly promoted the commercial interests of their nationals. With the move from monarchical to constitutional rule, envoys came to be seen more as representing a country, rather than a monarch. Their immunity from local jurisdiction, while it continued to be respected, was challenged as they were seen less as surrogates for a monarch. At the same time, the service rendered by envoys became more professionalized. Envoys came to be relied upon to keep tabs on domestic developments in the receiving state, in particular on their military preparations.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.