Lawyering Europe
European Law as a Transnational Social Field
Edited by
Antoine Vauchez and
Bruno de Witte
Hart Publishing
2013
Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
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.
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