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1 U. Miami Y.B. Int'l L. 143 (1991)
Counsel, Consul or Diplomat: Is There Any Practical Significance for Practitioners

handle is hein.journals/miaicr1 and id is 149 raw text is: COUNSEL, CONSUL OR DIPLOMAT: IS THERE ANY PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR PRACTITIONERS? CAMI GREEN* SUMMARY I. BACKGROUND II. THE IMPORTANCE OF USING PROPER TERMINOLOGY A. HONORARY V. CAREER CONSULS B. ESTABLISHMENT OF STATUS III. CONSUL OR DIPLOMAT? IV. CONSULAR CORPS, Corps Consulaire V. CONSULAR IMMUNITY A. IN GENERAL B. FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITY C. PRIVATE ACTS OF CONSUL D. CONSULAR TORTS E. WAIVER OF IMMUNITY F. JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERAL COURTS G. SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY H. RECOURSE VI. CONCLUSION I. BACKGROUND Picture the following: one of your major clients wakes you up at midnight with a characteristic call to action: Sue the bastards! The facts seem rather clear: your client entered into a contract to print membership directories for a group of consuls calling themselves The Consular Corps of Main City. The invoice remains unpaid by both the group's treasurer and the consul with whom your client was dealing. In order to come to terms on this transaction, the two parties had agreed to share a friendly drink, which ended in a disagreement. As the parties left the establishment, the consul ran into the side of your client's brand-new Cadillac. At this stage of his story your client was highly irate and the facts became somewhat confused. It seems the consul's car had red, white arid blue license plates. As far as you can tell, the police arrived, whereupon the consul produced some impressive-looking documents causing the officer to comment, a diplomat, eh? and no citation was issued. His only comment to your client was soriething vague about diplomatic immunity for this Honorary Consul of Finland for South Florida; Associate Director, Foreign Law Graduate Program, University of Miami School of Law; LL.B., University of Helsinki, Finland; M.C.L. University of Miami School of Law.

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