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Borders of convenience: European legal measures and the migration crisis. (2023)
Book Chapter
ARNELL, P. and LYONS, C. 2023. Borders of convenience: European legal measures and the migration crisis. In Zaman, Q.M. and Hall, G.G. (eds.) Border urbanism: transdisciplinary perspectives. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 26, pages 421-431. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06604-7_26

The migration crisis has posed fundamental questions for European institutions. Amongst these are whether EU human rights reality matches its rhetoric. The answer is a resounding no. The reaction of the EU to the crisis has entailed an abdication of... Read More about Borders of convenience: European legal measures and the migration crisis..

Just fatherlands? Judging the Shoah in Strasbourg. (2015)
Book Chapter
LYONS, C. 2015. Just fatherlands? Judging the Shoah in Strasbourg. In Kochenov, D., de Búrca, G. and Williams, A. (eds.) Europe's justice deficit? Oxford: Hart [online], chapter 26, pages 381-400. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474201193.ch-026

The primary preoccupation of this chapter is an examination of how Europe's highest human rights court works through the enduring effects of the 'moral catastrophe' of the Holocaust. The issue of the role of past inhumanity within Europe's present is... Read More about Just fatherlands? Judging the Shoah in Strasbourg..

The limits of European Union citizenship. (2000)
Book Chapter
LYONS, C. 2000. The limits of European Union citizenship. In Bankowski, Z. and Scott, A. (eds.) The European Union and its order: the legal theory of European integration. Oxford: Blackwell, chapter 8, pages 149-167.

This chapter analyses the establishment and implications of European Union citizenship. It suggests that the definitions and parameters of citizenship as per the Treaty are both bold and vague, and that there is great potential for these to be furthe... Read More about The limits of European Union citizenship..

The evolution of the European regulation of asylum: from Geneva to Amsterdam. (1999)
Book Chapter
LYONS, C. 1999. The evolution of the European regulation of asylum: from Geneva to Amsterdam. In Harding, C. and Lim, C.L. (eds.) Renegotiating Westphalia: essays and commentary on the European and conceptual foundations of modern international law. Developments in international law, 34. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, chapter 9, pages 257-272.

This chapter examines the emergence of "new asylum" in Europe to 1997. New policy (safe countries of origin), new laws (re-admission treaties) and new language (e.g. the concept of "manifestly unfounded" claims) are found to now govern the management... Read More about The evolution of the European regulation of asylum: from Geneva to Amsterdam..

The politics of alterity and exclusion in the European Union. (1998)
Book Chapter
LYONS, C. 1998. The politics of alterity and exclusion in the European Union. In Fitzpatrick, P. and Bergeron J.H. (eds.) Europe's other: European law between modernity and postmodernity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing [online], chapter 8, pages 157-176. Available from: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429444265-9

The notion of the human face of Europe merits evocation after almost 50 years of planned integration. What face does Europe now present or represent? A selective and inaccurate representation of the integrated European might be a white, prosperous an... Read More about The politics of alterity and exclusion in the European Union..

Citizenship in the constitution of the European Union: rhetoric or reality? (1996)
Book Chapter
LYONS, C. 1996. Citizenship in the constitution of the European Union: rhetoric or reality? In Bellamy, R. (ed.) Constitutionalism, democracy and sovereignty: American and European perspectives. Aldershot: Avebury, pages 96-110.

This paper will explore the nature of European Union citizenship in the context of the constitutionalisation1 of the EC/EU. The concept was formally introduced by the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and presents many problems in its current state. Und... Read More about Citizenship in the constitution of the European Union: rhetoric or reality?.