1st Edition

Monitoring Border Violence in the EU Frontex in Focus

Edited By Elspeth Guild Copyright 2023
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines EU external border violence and the role of Frontex, and how it can be made legally and politically accountable for these incidents. The volume sets out what the international standards are for monitoring border violence and how monitors’ independence must be guaranteed and where these standards come from. The book provides realistic options to resolve the crisis by focusing... Read more

1. Introduction: Independent Monitoring and Use of Force by Border Police

Elspeth Guild

2. Use of Force and Border Violence Troubles in Europe

Elspeth Guild

3. International and European Monitoring Standards for Law Enforcement

Elspeth Guild

4. The EU Legislator, Frontex and Fundamental Rights

Nicolette Busuttil

5. Frontex and Its Fundamental Rights Officer

Ashleigh Guest

6. Impairing Monitoring and the FRO

Ashleigh Guest

7. What Is Independent Monitoring? Lessons from the Legislators

Elspeth Guild

8. Independent Monitoring: Lessons from the European Courts

Elif Mendos Kuşkonmaz

9. The Problem of Impunity in Border Violence

Elspeth Guild

10. Prosecuting Border Violence

Maria Elisa D’Amico and Paolo Gambatesa

11. Conclusions: Monitoring Border Violence

Elspeth Guild

Biography

Elspeth Guild is a Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in law at Queen Mary University of London and an Emerita Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, and teaches at Sciences-Po Paris.