Lawyering Europe: European Law as a Transnational Social Field
Antoine Vauchez, Bruno E.F.M. De Witte - Hart Publishing, 2013
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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 book promotes 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, the book 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. (Series: Modern Studies in
European Law - Vol. 37)
