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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Law School, 1988. / Table of cases: leaves [771]-783. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [784]-795).

Thesis (L.L.M (Law)) - Rhodes University, 2009.

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Thesis (doctoral--Hanʼgukhak Chungang Yŏnʼguwŏn). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 642-649) and index.

Akademisk avhandling--Uppsala. / Summary in German. Scandinavian university books. Includes bibliographical references.

Diplomatic immunity is one of the oldest elements of foreign relations, dating back as far as Ancient Greece and Rome. Today, it is a principle that has been codified into the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations regulating past customs and practices. Consuls and international organizations, although their privileges and immunities are similar to diplomatic personnel, do differ and are regulated by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the United Nations International Immunities respectively. These Conventions have been influenced by past practices and by three theories during different era’s namely exterritoriality, personal representation and functional necessity. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations further provides certain immunities and privileges to different levels of diplomatic officials, their staff and families. Privileges and immunities will be considered under various main categories, namely the diplomatic mission, the diplomatic official, diplomatic staff, and families. Each category receives privileges and immunities, for example immunities enjoyed by the diplomatic mission include mission correspondence and bags. Diplomatic officials enjoy personal inviolability, immunity from jurisdiction and inviolability of diplomats’ residences and property. The staff and families of diplomatic officials too enjoy privileges and immunities. The problem of so many people receiving privileges and immunities is that there is a high likelihood of abuse. Abuses that arise are various crimes committed by diplomats, their staff and families. They are immune from local punishment and appear to be above the local law. Although the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations provides remedies against diplomats, staff and families who abuse their position, it gives the impression that it is not enough. Various Acts in the United Kingdom, United States and the Republic of South Africa will be analysed in order to ascertain what governments have done to try and curb diplomatic abuses. Each will be considered and found that although they have restricted immunity from previous practices it still places the diplomats’ needs above its own citizens. Thus several suggestions have been put forward and argued whether they are successful in restricting immunity comprehensively. Such suggestions are amending the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations; using the functional necessity theory to further limit immunity; forming bilateral treaties between States as a possible means to restrict or limit; and lastly establishing a Permanent International Diplomatic Criminal Court. The key question to be answered is whether diplomatic immunity is needed for the efficient functioning of foreign relations between States.

In my diploma thesis I deal with a question about contemporary and future role of the honorary consular offices and officers. I compare their position with the position of the career consular offices and officers. Among main variables which I follow in my thesis belong the rights and the immunities, the functions and the distinctions in the essence of two consular classes of officers. To achieve my goal I used beside traditional methods also questionnaire designed for honorary consuls of the Slovak republic.

La famille est une cellule qui relève de l'intimité de tout un chacun. Dès lors, comprendre l'intrusion d'un droit répressif en son sein n'est pas chose évidente. Pourtant, force est de constater que l'activité pénale s'y est intensifiée ces dernières années. La question est alors de savoir quelles sont les raisons qui justifient cette intervention du droit pénal au sein de la famille. Cette problématique nous conduit à interroger la place du droit pénal dans la famille. Cette étude met en lumière deux conditions de l'intervention du droit pénal : l'existence d'un dysfonctionnement dans la famille, une condition indispensable ; et la protection de valeurs sociales au sein de la famille, une condition nécessaire. Il convient par conséquent de construire, premièrement, le concept de dysfonctionnement familial autour de trois critères que sont la nature du dysfonctionnement, la gravité de ce dysfonctionnement et enfin le moment de son apparition. Deuxièmement, s'agissant de la protection des valeurs sociales dans la famille, deux modalités d'intervention sont à dissocier : une modalité classique selon laquelle le droit pénal est essentiellement un droit sanctionnateur et une modalité novatrice selon laquelle le droit pénal affirme sa singularité. / The family is an entity that falls under the privacy of everyone. Therefore, understanding the intrusion of a repressive law within it is not something obvious. Yet it is clear that penal activity has increased in the family those past years.Then the question is what are the reasons that justify the intervention of penal law within the family. This problem leads us to question the place of criminal law in the family. This study highlights two conditions for the intervention of penal law: the existence of a malfunction in the family, an indispensable condition; the protection of social values within the family, a necessary condition.First, it is therefore necessary to build the concept of family dysfunction on three criteria which are the nature of the malfunction, the severity of this dysfunction and finally the moment of its appearance.Second, with regard to the protection of social values in the family, two modalities of intervention are dissociated: a classic mode that penal law is essentially an accessory law and an innovative modality that penal law asserts its singularity.

O presente trabalho examina a interpretação das imunidades tributárias previstas no art. 150, VI, da Constituição Federal brasileira de 1988. Em primeiro lugar, são examinadas as teorias sobre a interpretação jurídica e conclui-se que a interpretação deve ser entendida como a construção do sentido do texto. No entanto, tal interpretação está limitada ao sentido literal possível do texto e, ademais, deve ser devidamente fundamentada, através do discurso argumentativo, de modo que a decisão possa ser intersubjetivamente controlada. Conclui-se que, no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, têm primazia os argumentos de natureza linguística e sistemática, visto que se referem diretamente à ordem jurídica vigente. E, dentre os argumentos sistemáticos, deve-se prestigiar aquele sentido que seja mais consentâneo com o princípio constitucional subjacente ao dispositivo a ser interpretado. As mesmas conclusões aplicam-se às normas de Direito Tributário, já que estão sujeitas aos mesmos métodos de interpretação aplicáveis às demais normas jurídicas. Contudo, deve ser ressaltado que as normas que estabelecem a incidência dos tributos, bem como os preceitos que fixam a competência, incluindo as imunidades, têm sua interpretação limitada ao sentido literal possível, sendo vedado o recurso à analogia. Diante disso, afirma-se que, na aplicação desses preceitos, devem ser considerados principalmente os argumentos linguísticos, que limitam a interpretação ao sentido possível do texto, e os argumentos sistemáticos, que estudam a relação das imunidades com as outras normas inseridas no ordenamento pátrio, especialmente os princípios constitucionais. Nesse estudo, deve ser examinada a função exercida pelas imunidades, que não apenas bloqueiam a instituição de tributos, como podem resguardar certas condutas e promover um estado de coisas desejado pelo Estado. Estabelecidas tais premissas, são examinadas as imunidades do art. 150, VI, da Constituição, tendo em vista as principais questões hoje debatidas pela doutrina e pela jurisprudência acerca desses preceitos. / This thesis examines the interpretation of the tax immunities provided for in article 150, VI, of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Firstly, we will examine the main theories concerning juridical interpretation and we conclude that interpretation must be understood as the construction of the meaning of the text. However, the interpretation is limited to the possible literal meaning of the text and must also be fully justified, through an argumentative discourse, so that decisions can be controlled intersubjectivly. We conclude that, in light of Brazilian legal system, the linguistic and systematic arguments have precedence, since those arguments refer directly to the legal system now in force. Considering these systematic arguments, the interpreter should give precedence to the meaning that is more compatible with the principle underlying the provision subject to interpretation. The same conclusions apply to tax provisions, since they are subject to the same methods of interpretation applicable to other legal provisions. However, it should be stressed that the interpretation of provisions that regulate the incidence of taxes, as well as those that regulate taxation powers, including tax immunities, is limited to the possible literal meaning of the text, being forbidden the use of analogies. Therefore, in the interpretation of those provisions, we should consider mainly the linguistic arguments, which limit the interpretation to the possible meaning, and the systematic arguments, which study the relationship between tax immunities and other provisions of our legal system, especially the constitutional principles. In this study, it should be examined the functions performed by tax immunities, that not only prohibit taxation, but also can protect some types of conducts and promote a state of affairs desired by the State. Having established those premises, we examine the tax immunities provided for in article 150, VI, of Brazilian Constitution, in light of the main topics now debated by the literature and the case law concerning those provisions.