Violeta Moreno Lax
Stipendiary Lecturer in Law
Violeta Moreno Lax graduated from the University of Murcia (Spain) with a first class degree in Law. She earned an MA in European Studies from the College of Europe and a Certificate in EU Law on Immigration and Asylum from the Free University of Brussels. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Louvain.
Before coming to Oxford, Violeta taught EU law at the College of Europe; human rights law at the University of Louvain; and refugee law at the University of Nijmegen. She has also worked as a consultant for the European Parliament and the European Commission, and has acted as a legal expert for a number of governmental and non-governmental organisations active in the area of asylum and human rights. Violeta is a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre since October 2010. She joined the Oxford Law Faculty in October 2011, as a Lecturer of St Hilda’s College.
Violeta has been awarded a Research Fellowship by Fundación Rafael del Pino to conduct research in the field of migration. Her current work focuses on the interface between border control and refugee protection under EU and international law, taking into account the impact of the extraterritorial applicability of human rights norms.
Publications
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Journal Articles
2012
V Moreno Lax, 'Dismantling the Dublin System: M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece' (2012) 14(1) European Journal of Migration and Law 1-31.
2011
V Moreno Lax, 'Beyond Saadi v UK: Why the "Unnecessary" Detention of Asylum Seekers is Inadmissible under EU Law' (2011) 5(2) Human Rights and International Legal Discourse 166-206.
V Moreno Lax, 'Seeking Asylum in the Mediterranean: Against a Fragmentary Reading of EU Member States’ Obligations Accruing at Sea' (2011) 23(2) International Journal of Refugee Law 174-220.
2010
V Moreno Lax, 'The EU Regime on Interdiction, Search and Rescue, and Disembarkation: The Frontex Guidelines for Intervention at Sea' (2010) 25(4) The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 621-635.
2008
V Moreno Lax, 'Must EU Borders Have Doors for Refugees? On the Compatibility of Schengen Visas and Carrier Sanctions with EU Member States’ Obligations to Provide International Protection to Refugees' (2008) 10(3) European Journal of Migration and Law 315-364.
Chapters
2013
V Moreno Lax, 'Frontex as a Global Actor: External Relations with Third Countries and International Organisations' in M Dony (ed), The External Dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Brussels: Bruylant 2013) (forthcoming)
2012
V Moreno Lax, 'Carrier Sanctions ' in S Peers, E Guild, D Acosta, K Groenendijk and V Moreno Lax (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, 2nd Ed (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) (forthcoming)
V Moreno Lax, 'The External Dimension of the Common European Asylum System after Stockholm' in C Gortazar Rotaeche (ed), European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction? (Brussels: Bruylant, 2012) (forthcoming)
V Moreno Lax, 'The “Safe Third Country” Notion Revisited: An Appraisal in light of General International Rules on the Law of Treaties' in G S Goodwin-Gill (ed), 2010 Study Session, The Hague Academy of International Law (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) (forthcoming)
2011
V Moreno Lax, '(Extraterritorial) Entry Controls and (Extraterritorial) Non-Refoulement in EU Law' in M Maes, M-C Foblets and Ph De Bruycker (eds), The External Dimension(s) of EU Asylum and Immigration Policy (Brussels: Bruylant, 2011)
Edited books
2012
S Peers, E Guild, D Acosta, K Groenendijk and V Moreno Lax (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, 2nd Ed (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) (forthcoming)
2010
O De Schutter and V Moreno Lax (eds), Human Rights in the Web of Governance: Towards a Learning-Based Fundamental Rights Policy for the European Union (Brussels: Bruylant, 2010)
Reviews
2012
V Moreno Lax, 'Book Review: M Geiger and A Pécoud (eds), The Politics of International Migration Management, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780230272583' (2012) 25(1) Journal of Refugee Studies 166-167. [Review]
V Moreno Lax, 'T Gammeltoft-Hansen, Access to Asylum, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9781107003477' (2012) 25(3) Journal of Refugee Studies (forthcoming). [Review]
2010
V Moreno Lax, 'Book Review: A Hurwitz, The Collective Responsibility of States to Protect Refugees, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-927838-1' (2010) 12(1) European Journal of Migration and Law 133-142. [Review]
Working Papers
2011
V Moreno Lax, Dismantling the Dublin System: M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece (2011) SSRN Working Paper Series
2010
V Moreno Lax, Beyond SAADI v UK: The “Necessity” Requirement for Administrative Detention of Asylum Seekers in the EU (2010) FR-31 REFGOV WP Series
V Moreno Lax, The External Dimension of the Common European Asylum System after Stockholm (2010) FR-30 REFGOV WP Series
2009
V Moreno Lax, Searching Responsibilities and Rescuing Rights: Frontex, the Draft Guidelines for Joint Maritime Operations and Asylum Seeking in the Mediterranean (2009) FR-28 REFGOV WP Series
2008
V Moreno Lax, Must EU Borders Have Doors for Refugees? (2008) CRIDHO Working Paper 2008/03
Reports
2010
V Moreno Lax and (as part of) the Odysseus Academic Network, Setting Up a Common European Asylum System (2010) Brussels: European Parliament
Interests
Teaching: European Union Law; Constitutional and Administrative Law; Human Rights Law; Public International Law
Research: EU law, human rights, public international law, law of the sea, refugee law and migration studies.
Other details
Correspondence address:
St Hilda's College
Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY
Link to Refugee Studies Centre web site
