Lawyering Europe : European law as a transnational social field / edited by Antoine Vauchez and Bruno de Witte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vauchez, Antoine, editor.

Witte, Bruno de, editor.

Series:

Modern studies in European law ; v. 37.

Modern studies in European law ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--European Union countries.

Law.

Lawyers--European Union countries.

Lawyers.

Sociological jurisprudence--European Union countries.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While scholarly writing has dealt with the role of law in the process of European integration, so far it has shed little light on the lawyers and communities of lawyers involved in that process. Law has been one of the most thoroughly investigated aspects of the European integration process, and EU law has become a well-established academic discipline, with the emergence more recently of an impressive body of legal and political science literature on 'European law in context'. Yet this field has been dominated by an essentially judicial narrative, focused on the role of the European courts, underestimating in the process the multifaceted roles lawyers and law play in the EU polity, notably the roles they play beyond the litigation arena. This volume seeks to promote a deeper understanding of European law as a social and political phenomenon, presenting a more complete view of the European legal field by looking beyond the courts, and at the same time broadening the scholarly horizon by exploring the ways in which European law is actually made. To do this it describes the roles of the great variety of actors who stand behind legal norms and decisions, bringing together perspectives from various disciplines (law, political science, political sociology and history), to offer a global multi-disciplinary reassessment of the role of 'law' and 'lawyers' in the European integration process

Contents:

Introduction. Euro-lawyering, transnational social fields and European polity-building

Antoine Vauchez

Part. I : Repeat players

"Ten majestic figures in long Amaranth robes" : the formation of the Court of Justice of the European Communities

Antonin Cohen

The role of legal services in the elaboration of European legislation

Jean Paul Jacque

From the margins on the European legal field : the governments' agents and their influence on the development of European Union Law

Marie-Pierre Granger

Part II. Centres and peripheries

Courts united? On European judicial networks

Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes

European Union law : a unified academic discipline?

Bruno de Witte

The ECHR and the birth of (European) human rights law as an academic discipline

Stephanie Hennette-Vauchez

Part III. European elites and their legal credentials. Where have all the lawyers gone? Structures and transformations of top European Commission officials' legal training

Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle.

The creation of institutional expertise at the European Parliament : legal and political resources of the members of the Constitutional Affairs Committee

Laurent Godmer and Guillaume Marrel

Law and lawyers in the Brussels world of commercial consultants

Christian Lahusen

Part IV. The disputed role of law in the government of Europe.

The power of legal knowledge in the reform of fundamental law : the case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights

Mikael Rask Madsen

Soft law and the rule of law in the European Union : revision or redundancy?

Mark Dawson

Eurolegalism and the European legal field

R. Daniel Kelemen

Opportunities and limits of a weak field : lawyers and the genesis of a field of European economic power

Yves Dezalay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472566454

1472566459

9781782250937

178225093X

OCLC:

852757210