De Foro Legatorum Liber Singularis. A Monograph on the Jurisdiction

1995. Bijnkershoek, Cornelius van. Bijnkershoek, Cornelius van. Bynkershoek, Cornelius van. De Foro Legatorum Liber Singularis: A Monograph on the Jurisdiction Over Ambassadors in Both Civil and Criminal Cases. Introduction by Jan de Louter. Translated by Gordon J. Laing. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. Carnegie Classics of International Law No. 22 in the series. Reprint. Buffalo: W.S. Hein, 1995. ISBN 0899419488. xxx, 134, 24 pp. Tan buckram hardcover with black spine lettering. New. Publisher's Price $165. Special $95. * Explores the legal status of ambassadors and other diplomatic agents and whether they are subject to the civil and criminal laws of the countries in which they are stationed. This book established Bynkershoek as a major international legal thinker. His chief argument was that while diplomats are immune from a host state's criminal jurisdiction, they are not necessarily immune from its civil jurisdiction. This challenged prevailing thought at the time. For centuries after its publication, the work remained "the great Canon" of its field. It is considered a fundamental text on the development of international law related to diplomatic relations.