Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Aims and Scope 6
Chapter 2: The Extraterritorial Applicability of Human Rights 15
2.1 Introduction 15
2.2 The Concept of Jurisdiction in International Law 19
2.3 The Concept of Jurisdiction in Human Rights Law 22
2.4 On the Different Functions of Jurisdiction in General International Law and Human Rights Law 26
2.5 International Case Law on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights 28
2.6 Human Rights Treaties with No Jurisdictional Clause 48
2.7 Conclusions 53
Chapter 3: The Responsible Actor 57
3.1 Introduction 57
3.2 Independent Responsibility 61
3.3 Derived Responsibility for Aiding and Assisting Another State 91
3.4 Conclusions 101
Chapter 4: Extraterritorial Asylum under International Law 104
4.1 Introduction 104
4.2 The Right to Grant Asylum 106
4.3 The Right to Obtain Asylum 120
4.4 The Right to Seek Asylum 141
4.5 A Right to be Protected but No Right to Protect? 157
4.6 Conclusions 163
Chapter 5: Extraterritorial Asylum under European Union Law 165
5.1 Introduction 165
5.2 The EU's External Dimension of Asylum and Migration 167
5.3 The Territorial Scope of EU Law on Border Control and Asylum 188
5.4 Conclusions 206
Chapter 6: Interdiction at Sea 209
6.1 Introduction 209
6.2 The European Interdiction Programme 211
6.3 Migrant Interdiction and the Law of the Sea 215
6.4 Human Rights at Sea 240
6.5 Issues of Attribution and Allocation of Responsibility 254
6.6 Conclusions 258
Chapter 7: External Processing 260
7.1 Introduction 260
7.2 The Logic of External Containment in US and Australian Practices 264
7.3 The Feasibility of Procedural Containment 269
7.4 The Feasibility of Physical Containment 274
7.5 Issues of Attribution and the Allocation of Responsibility 279
7.6 Conclusions 281
Chapter 8: How to Take Refugee Rights into Account 284
8.1 Sovereignty, Territory and Human Rights: Towards a General Proposition 285
8.2 The Implementation of a Human Rights Strategy: Towards Recommendations 293
8.2 The EU as a Panacea for Upholding Refugee Rights? 303
Bibliography 305
Index 317