A Comment on Cases Concerning Consular Protection of the International Court of Justice

Abstract

 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has so far heard five cases directly related to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR), in which applicants mainly based their arguments on Article 36 of the Convention. The judgment of the International Court of Justice in the above cases involves at least two sets of relationships: One is the relationship between consular protection and human rights; the other is the relationship between the Convention and bilateral consular agreements. Through the analysis of the above relationships, this article believes that human rights factors have an increasing impact on consular protection and consular relations law will place greater emphasis on the human rights protection.