Refugee protection and asylum are one of the most pressing societal and legal topics of our times. The course will deal with the international foundations of refugee protection, especially the Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees, followed by an analysis of the legal instruments forming the Common European Asylum System (among them the highly disputed Dublin Regulation.) The course will finally enquire how the future Common European Asylum Law System might or should look like. All along the course, relevant case-law of the European Court of Justice will be discussed.