The Global Reach of European Refugee Law

Hélène Lambert is Professor of International Law, University of Westminster, London, where she teaches Refugee Law, Human Rights Law and EU Law. She has been a regular consultant for the Council of Europe; she also served briefly as a Protection Officer for UNHCR (1996). She has written extensively on asylum, refugees and human rights. Jane McAdam is Scientia Professor of Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is also Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law. She has undertaken consultancies for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and a number of governments on forced migration issues. Maryellen Fullerton is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, New York. She has been selected twice as a Fulbright Scholar, most recently serving as the Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Trento, Italy. In addition to publishing numerous academic publications on refugee and migration law, she served as a reporter for Human Rights Watch and headed several human rights missions in Germany.

• 1. Introduction: European refugee law and transnational emulation Hélène Lambert; 2. Migrating laws? The 'plagiaristic dialogue' between Europe and Australia Jane McAdam; 3. European influence on asylum practices in Latin America: accelerated procedures in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela David Cantor; 4. A safe country to emulate? Canada and the European refugee Audrey Macklin; 5. Between East and West: the case of Israel Dallal Stevens; 6. Is Switzerland an EU member state? Asylum law harmonization through the backdoor Vincent Chetail and Céline Bauloz; 7. The impact of European refugee law on regional, sub-regional and national planes in Africa Marina Sharpe; 8. Stealth emulation: the United States and European protection norms Maryellen Fullerton; 9. The vanishing refugee: how EU asylum law blurs the specificity of refugee protection Jean-François Durieux; 10. Conclusion: Europe's normative power in refugee law Hélène Lambert.

'… this volume represents an excellent contribution to the academic literature and would be a welcome addition to any bookshelf. It is hoped that the research undertaken here will act as a spur for further exploration of this ever-changing and developing area.' Sarah Singer, International and Comparative Law Quarterly