Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Gregor Noll -- Introduction / Gregor Noll -- Universalism versus Particularism / Gregor Noll -- Determinants of Protection systems / Gregor Noll -- European Integration and Extraterritorial Protection / Gregor Noll -- Access to Territory under the EU acquis / Gregor Noll -- Access to Full-Fledged Procedures under the EU acquis / Gregor Noll -- Access to Protection under the EU acquis / Gregor Noll -- Sharing the Burden? / Gregor Noll -- International Law and Extraterritorial Protection / Gregor Noll -- Interpreting Hard cases / Gregor Noll -- Delimiting and Justifying Protection under the ECHR / Gregor Noll -- Three Conflict Zones / Gregor Noll -- Demos, Determinacy and Justification / Gregor Noll -- Negotiating Asylum: A summary of Observations / Gregor Noll -- Cases / Gregor Noll -- International Treaties / Gregor Noll -- Instruments and Documents Related to the EU acquis / Gregor Noll -- Literature / Gregor Noll -- Index / Gregor Noll.

How is access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? Which tools does international law offer to solve collisions between both? And, finally, is law capable of bridging the foundational oppositions embedded in migration and asylum issues? This work combines the potential of legal formalism with an analytical framework drawing on political theory. It analyses the argumentative strategies used by international lawyers, and developed them further, exploiting the interpretative methodology of international law as well as elaborate discrimination arguments. The author concludes that deflecting protection seekers by means of visa requirements may constitute a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights, and that the prescriptions of international law oblige Member States to apply the Dublin Convention and the Spanish Protocol in a manner emptying it of its main control functions. The author also shows that burden-sharing remains the pivotal element in the normative dynamics behind the EU acquis, and explains why the European Court of Human Rights must be regarded as the only transnational forum for the legitimate negotiation of asylum in Europe.

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