The Limits of Transnational Law

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London. Helene Lambert is Reader in Law at the University of Westminster. She has written extensively on asylum, refugees and human rights, and acted as a consultant for the Council of Europe, and the Governments of Moldova, Ukraine and Serbia-Montenegro.

'… marvelous … thought provoking … this book was a pleasure to read. It is lively, entertaining and highly engaging. All the chapters are well written, not always the case when many of the authors do not have English as a mother tongue. For my part, my reflections on the question of cross-border judicial conversations have been much enriched by this book.' European Human Rights Law Review

• 1. Introduction: transnational law, judges, and refugees in the European Union H. Lambert; 2. Where is the reference? On the limited role of transnational dialogue in Belgian refugee law J.-Y. Carlier and D. Vanheule; 3. The use of foreign asylum jurisprudence in the German administrative courts P. Tiedemann; 4. Foreign law in Swedish judicial decision-making: still a rare occurrence R. Stern; 5. Foreign asylum law in Denmark - dualist tradition and domestic focus J. Vedsted-Hansen; 6. Transnational refugee law in the French courts: deliberate or compelled change in judicial attitudes? H. Lambert and J. Silga; 7. Thou shalt not judge... Spanish judicial decision-making in asylum and the role of judges in interpreting the law M.-T. Gil-Bazo; 8. The solipsistic monologue of Italian authorities F. Messineo; 9. The British judiciary and the search for reciprocal relations with its continental partners H. Lambert, with the assistance of R. Husain; 10. Judicial dialogue and refugee determination in Irish law: talking across borders S. Mullally; 11. Conclusion: one true way G. S. Goodwin-Gill.