Schnyder, F. Keywords: Refugees | Mots clefs: Réfugiés | ABSTRACT Felix Schnyder explains in the introduction to his course that the fundamental notion of asylum, which governs all other notions of refugee law, has been emerging from earliest times. On the other hand, he writes that everything that is new is the idea of a collective responsibility of the community of States in dealing with the problem of refugees. In the first part, the author focuses on the question of international community's understan…