Lawyering Europe

Vauchez and de Witte have assembled a volume which provides many excellent and diverse perspectives on law, the legal profession, and actors across the legal field and their contribution to the process of European integration. ...any student of European Law, a lawyer or political scientist searching for a different perspective on the process of European Integration, this volume will provide many answers, and likely inspire many new avenues of exploration. -- Joelle Grogan * EUtopia Law Blog * Unlike many edited collections, there is a clear empirical and theoretical unity so that the chapters stand as contributions to the thesis rather than the volume being an aggregation of essays. They are uniformly interesting and well-written, even where the authors are clearly not working in their first language. Either the editors have been very lucky in their contributors or they have been very diligent in improving the writing. ...it is a coherent and stimulating collection [and as] with all best work, any reader will both learn a good deal from it and be stimulated to think where the project might go next. -- Robert Dingwall * Law and Politics Book Review, Volume 24, Number 3 * The book is written in clear, highly structured language and is based on a solid methodological approach...Lawyering Europe deserves to be deeply recommended to anyone who wants to seriously keep up with this field. -- Agata Ludera-Ruszel * Journal of Common Market Studies *

Antoine Vauchez is Research Professor at the CNRS/University of Paris I, Sorbonne. Bruno de Witte is Professor of Law at the University of Maastricht and at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.

Introduction. Euro-lawyering, Transnational Social Fields and European Polity-Building Antoine Vauchez Part I: Repeat Players 1. 'Ten Majestic Figures in Long Amaranth Robes': The Formation of theCourt of Justice of the European Communities Antonin Cohen 2. The Role of Legal Services in the Elaboration of European Legislation Jean Paul Jacqu 3. From the Margins on the European Legal Field: The Governments' Agentsand their Influence on the Development of European Union Law Marie-Pierre Granger Part II: Centres and Peripheries 4. Courts United? On European Judicial Networks Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes 5. European Union Law: A Unified Academic Discipline? Bruno de Witte 6. The ECHR and the Birth of (European) Human Rights Law as anAcademic Discipline Stphanie Hennette-Vauchez Part III: European Elites and their Legal Credentials 7. Where Have all the Lawyers Gone? Structures and Transformations ofTop European Commission Officials' Legal Training Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle 8. 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 9. Law and Lawyers in the Brussels World of Commercial Consultants Christian Lahusen Part IV: The Disputed Role of Law in the Government of Europe 10. The Power of Legal Knowledge in the Reform of Fundamental Law: The Case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights Mikael Rask Madsen 11. Soft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy? Mark Dawson 12. Eurolegalism and the European Legal Field R Daniel Kelemen 13. Opportunities and Limits of a Weak Field: Lawyers and the Genesis of a Field of European Economic Power Yves Dezalay