Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-294) and index.

Overview of consular access -- Role of consuls in assisting a national -- Situations requiring advice about consular access -- Individuals who must be advised -- Timing of consular access -- Confidentiality of communication -- Automatic notification under bilateral treaties -- Rights assertable against the receiving state -- Consular access as a due process right -- Statutory right to sending state protection -- Non-statutory right to sending state protection -- Incorporation into domestic law -- Subsidiary regulation and legislation -- Availability of a judicial remedy -- Domestic effect of international decisions -- Prejudice as a prerequisite for a judicial remedy -- Suppression of evidence as a judicial remedy -- Procedural default as barring a remedy -- Consular access violation as grounds for sentence reduction or clemency -- Monetary damages for a foreign national -- Intervention in court by a sending state -- Civil suit by a sending state -- Diplomatic protest by a sending state -- Jurisdiction in the International Court of Justice -- Jurisdiction in Inter-American human rights organs -- Proceedings in the International Court of Justice -- Proceedings in the Inter-American human rights system.

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