The 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam introduced as an objective the maintenance and development of the Union ‘as an area of freedom, security and justice’, but while it extended the Union’s security powers it did little to improve the status of human rights. This book critically analyses the sources and normative status of human rights in European Union law, with a particular focus on their inter-relationship with international law, and assesses the impact of the 2003 reforms submitted by the Convention on the Future of Europe which formed the basis for the reforms in the 2004 Constitution for Europe and the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon. An illustrative case study examines in detail the status of the principle of non-refoulement in the Common European Asylum System. This book will be of interest both to lawyers and political scientists seeking to understand the development and rationale of human rights protection in Union law in the context of the reform proposals leading up to the 2004 Constitution for Europe and the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon.

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