Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London

Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax is 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.

"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." -- Diego Acosta, Common Market Law Review

"an imaginative, heterodox work that challenges the very foundations of our profession." -- Gleider Hernández, European Journal of International Law

"The book constitutes a timely resource for lawyers, political scientists and sociologists interested in the development of migration and refugee issues management. Other than providing useful insights, it also highlights trends that will require further investigation." -- Chiara Raucea , JMCS

"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

"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

"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

"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 BrÃi NÃiGhráinne, University of Sheffield

"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 book is mandatory reading for all academics and policy makers engaged with asylum issues. It provides a coherent and cogent argument in favour of international protection for those fearing persecution and torture." - Elspeth Guild, Professor of Law, Radboud University

"Dr. Moreno-Lax offers a conceptually clear and sharply critical analysis of the prevalence of border security considerations over human rights guarantees and institutions in the present European asylum policy." - François Crépeau, Hans & Tamar Oppenhemier Professor in Public International Law, McGill University

"An original and authoritative analysis of the human rights challenges arising from the intersection between refugee and borders law." - Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European Criminal Law, Queen Mary University of London