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.

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.

1. Introduction: Independent Monitoring and use of force by Border Police 2. Use of Force and Border Violence Troubles in Europe 3. International and European Monitoring Standards for Law Enforcement 4. The EU Legislator, Frontex and Fundamental Rights 5. Frontex and its Fundamental Rights Officer 6. Impairing Monitoring and the FRO 7. What is independent monitoring? Lessons from the Legislators 8. Independent monitoring: Lessons from the European Courts 9. The Problem of Impunity in Border Violence 10. Prosecuting Border Violence 11. Conclusions: Monitoring Border Violence