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.
This book is well written and meticulous, offering brilliant insights into the human rights aspects of the EU's legal regulation of refugee flows. * Tawhida Ahmed, City Law School * This text is a must-read for any scholar, student, or advocate seeking to understand the complexities surrounding asylum and extraterritorial border controls under EU law. * Dr Brid Ni Ghrainne, University of Sheffield * This book will be useful to all those interested in EU asylum law and, in particular, its relationship with the EU's legislation on border management and the combined effect that these two areas of EU law have on the effective realization of the right of refugees to seek asylum. While there is plenty of literature on each of these two separate, but related, areas of EU law, this is the first book to explore their interaction. * Maria-Teresa Gil-Bazo, European Journal of International Law * Violeta Moreno-Lax contributes to the multidisciplinary debate on asylum and refugees by offering a deeper insight into the right to asylum, and particularly into the relationship between the right to receive protection and the mechanisms of border control. * Daniela Irrera, Journal of Common Market Studies * Moreno-Lax shows that it is perfectly possible to construct international and European law in such a manner as to argue that the generalized extraterritorial border control as implemented by European countries at this moment is in violation of international human rights and refugee law. This evidently requires an original and particular interpretation of law. Moreno-Lax convincingly argues that the currently dominant interpretation which denies her conclusion is flawed and internally inconsistent on many levels. The systematic and sustained way in which she does so is an achievement. * Thomas Spijkerboer, European Law Review *