Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Calvo doctrine

Int'l law. The rule that resident aliens have the same rights to protection as citizens, but no more. ( This doctrine, which establishes a minimum international standard for the treatment of aliens, was developed by the Argentinian jurist Carlos Calvo in his treatise Le droit international theoraque et pratique (5th ed. 1896). The doctrine is intended to prevent aliens from abusing their right of diplomatic protection.