The right to asylum is guaranteed by international, regional, and national regulations. The paper aims at determining whether Croatian courts promote international and European standards of asylum protection and whether they strive to develop higher standards of protection of asylees and asylum seekers. The legal problem this paper deals with is the level of regulation of the Croatian law of asylum from the aspect of the Croatian constitutional law, which includes administrative and judicial discretional decisions, i.e. the interpretation of legal provisions regulating the law of asylum. The paper is based on the hypothesis that Croatian courts do not have a significant influence on the development of standards of protection of asylees and asylum seekers. The judiciary could have a more important role in the development of the Croatian asylum system provided that courts use the influence they obtain from their independent position and develop higher standards of protection of asylees and asylum seekers. Adapted from source document.