The course aims to illustrate and analyse the European Union's immigration and asylum policies. Particular attention will be paid to the functioning of the Common European Asylum System and to international protection standards.

- Rights of EU citizens
- Rights of third-country nationals in the EU
- The position of aliens in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights
- The externalization of border controls
- The evolution of the right to asylum and the principle of non-refoulement
- The Dublin system: problems and prospects for reform
- The administrative detention of migrants
- Legal entry channels to EU
- The dialogue between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights on asylum and migration

- A. Liguori, Migration Law and the Externalization of Border Controls: European State Responsibility, Routledge, 2019.
- F. Cherubini, Asylum Law in the European Union, Routledge, 2015.
- L, Azoulai, K. de Vries (eds.), EU Migration Law: Legal Complexities and Political Rationales, OUP, 2014.