Accessing Asylum in Europe

Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax is Senior lecturer in Law, Founding Director of the Immigration Law programme, and inaugural co-Director and co-founder of the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs at Queen Mary University of London. She is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, a Fellow of the Centre of European Law of King's College London, EU Asylum Law Coordinator at the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, Co-Chair of The Refugee Law Observatory, Co-convener of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Migration Law Section, and member of the Steering Committee of the Migration Law Network. Before Queen Mary, she was a Lecturer in Law at the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford. She held visiting positions at the Universities of Macquarie and New South Wales, Oxford, Nijmegen, and The Hague Academy of International Law (Research Session 2010). She has published widely in the areas of international and European refugee and migration law.

• PART I. THE EU SYSTEM OF PRE-BORDER CONTROL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION IN EUROPE; PART II. THE RIGHTS OF PROTECTION SEEKERS UNDER EU LAW AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PRE-BORDER CONTROLS

Moreno-Lax has written one of the key texts on EU migration and asylum law for the years to come. Her steady defence of rights as "practical and effective" and "not theoretical and illusory" (p. 477) and, more importantly, the way such defence is conducted through impeccable legal analysis of the instruments adopted by the EU itself, is already having an impact beyond academia and will be at the centre of policy debates in the future. The book is therefore an indispensable title, and essential reading for students, scholars, legal practitioners and judges, aswell as policy makers and EU institutions dealing with borders, immigration, and asylum.