Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

The first socio-legal study of legal experts and their influence on EU policy-making at national, European, and international levels.

Emilia Korkea-aho (Edited by), Päivi Leino-Sandberg (Edited by)

9781108830126, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 October 2022

400 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.63 kg

This edited collection examines the changing role of the legal profession as experts in the context of European Union policy-making. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research and the idea of law as a social and political practice, this socio-legal work brings together a group of legal scholars and political scientists to investigate how lawyers, through the deployment of their expertise and knowledge, act as experts in matters of EU related policy-making at the national, European and international levels. It provides new theoretical viewpoints and untold stories from legal experts themselves, promotes an evolving definition of what constitutes legal expertise and what shapes legal experts in a time when experts are in equal measure both revered and ignored, and introduces new critical voices in the field of EU socio-legal studies.

1. Introduction Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino-Sandberg
Part I. Theorising Legal Expertise: 2. Performing legal expertise: reflections on the construction of transnational authority Martti Koskenniemi
3. Expertise as framing Matthew Windsor
4. In and out the window of opportunity between the state and law firms. Lawyers' double agency in contemporary France Pierre France and Antoine Vauchez
5. Legal professionalism and (legal) expertise in EU lawmaking Hans-W. Micklitz
Part II. In-House Legal Expertise: 6. WANTED: a creative lawyer with great technical skills for demanding work in the European parliament Päivi Leino
7. The politics of legal expertise at Westminster in times of crisis Benjamin Yong
8. International bureaucracies: extraterritorial reach of the European commission's legal expertise Anu Bradford
9. Transparency in Eu-Asian free trade agreements: the negotiating capital of trade experts Chris Kimura and Fernanda G. Nicola
Part III. External Legal Expertise: 10. The rise of transnational legal experts: two lessons from research on private practitioners as euro-lawyers Lola Avril
11. Rock 'n' Roll stars or guitar technicians? Legal advisors as legal experts in NGO lobbying Emilia Korkea-aho
12. Legal expertise, environmental groups and Brexit: beyond the limits Maria Lee and Carolyn Abbot
13. Bureaucrats in the classroom? Epistemic governance and the expert legal scholar Jan Klabbers
14. Verfassungsblog, legal expertise and why Europe's 'computer is not working as it should' Maximilian Steinbeis with the editors
15. Afterword: the four questions and one answer Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino-Sandber.

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND], International law [LB], Law & society [LAQ], EU & European institutions [JPSN2]