In this article, Martina Calleja delves into detail on the legal and customary principle of non-refoulement. This principle is explored from an international, EU and Human Rights perspective together as an obligation on a State receiving immigrants. This article shows how the principle of non-refoulement is a safeguard for migrants. Martina Calleja, ‘The Principle of […]

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Introducing Dublin III

  • Ariane Aquilina
  • 13/01/2015
  • 11 min read

Ariane Aquilina, ‘Introducing Dublin III’ (Online Law Journal, 13 January 2015). The Dublin III Regulation1 entered into force on 19 July 2013, and is intended to serve as a recast of the Dublin II Regulation, which itself replaced the Dublin Convention in 2003. The original Dublin Regulation was a law that set out which Member […]

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Vanessa Gatt, ‘Asylum Seekers and the European Courts: Upholding Human Rights vs State Politics’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). Amid stories of under-investigated crimes committed against asylum seekers, and amid reports of refugee segregation within certain Swiss towns imposing restrictions to the immigrants’ free movement,1 the European Courts have been adamant in their quest […]

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