EU Justice and Home Affairs Law Volume 1: EU Immigration and Asylum Law

EU Asylum and Immigration Law sets out the institutional framework and offers comprehensive coverage and analysis of EU legislation and case law as they relate to immigration, asylum, visas, and border controls. Fully updated to include a significant volume of new case law and legislation between 2015 and 2023, this volume includes detailed commentary on the law relating to qualification as a refugee, forms of protection, the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers (including the Dublin rules allocating asylum seekers between Member States), the Schengen rules on borders, EU security databases, Frontex, as well as all aspects of legal migration, expulsion and readmission, and immigration detention. The new edition addresses the human rights issues arising in these areas and the ongoing developments of the law, including discussion of proposed new legislation and the use of new or expanded EU border control databases.

Steve Peers' seminal text, EU Justice and Home Affairs Law, appears in its fifth edition and is available in two separate volumes covering asylum and immigration law and criminal law, policing, and civil law. This edition is the definitive guide to these intricate, contentious, and fast-developing areas of EU law, and will be invaluable to scholars, practitioners, and students in the field.

Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex

Steve Peers is a Professor of Law at the University of Essex. He is a specialist in EU law, including EU Justice and Home Affairs law. He has written extensively on many different aspects of the topic, and worked as a consultant or advisor for the UK House of Lords, EU Commission and European Parliament, as well as a number of NGOs. He discusses EU law frequently on TV and radio and is the editor of the EU Law Analysis blog.