Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION It is expected that this textbook will serve as a supplemental text to undergraduate courses in European asylum law, designed especially for the courses lectured at the Prague Summer School for Immigration and Asylum law. This book should also provide a useful guidance for those students, who are interested in legal framework of international and European protection of refugees and its practical consequences. The textbook can be also accessed as a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for distance courses. The aim of the Prague Summer School for Immigration and Asylum law is to critically reflect upon legal aspects of the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe and the measures adopted to respond at the EU, international, and national levels in the last three years. As the primary, but not exclusive, focus being the Common European Asylum System, this textbook should help the participants (students and PhD. students) to understand changes and developments of CEAS as a future challenge for the European Union in the migration agenda. The textbook is primarily intended for use by students of law and social science. The textbook is designed as a training manual to support lectures on European asylum law and to provide an introduction to the Common European Asylum system (CEAS). It should assist law and social sciences students to understand the legal framework of CEAS better. It provides: • an overview of international instruments of refugee law; • an overview of the legal basis of the CEAS, including its establishment; • an overview of the CEAS legislative instruments; • an introduction to modernization of CEAS as proposed by EU Commission; • and an introduction to interpretation of the legislative provisions of the CEAS, • including the examples of important CJEU interpretative rulings The textbook is supported by a compilation of jurisprudence and appendices having a specifc bearing on the CEAS. They list not only relevant EU primary and secondary legislation and relevant international treaties of universal and regional scope but also essential case law of the CJEU, the ECtHR and the courts and tribunals of EU Member States. To ensure that the relevant legislation and case law is easily and quickly accessible to readers, QR codes and hyperlinks have been utilized.

Lenka Pítrová editor

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