Brokering Europe - Euro-Lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity

A new historical and sociological account for the broad definitional power of law in the European Union polity.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Unity through Law. Inventing Europe's 'Integration Programme': 1. Three treaties, one community. Institution-building and legal strategies to unify Europe; 2. The force of a weak field. The transnational field of European law and the formation of Europe's polity; 3. The 'Van Gend en Loos' moment and the making of Europe's integration program; Part II. Jurisprudence, Code, Constitution: Europe's Building Blocks: 4. 'Jurisprudence'. Transnational esprit de corps and the Court's perpetual constitutional momentum; 5. 'The code'. The formation of the Acquis Communautaire and the legal objectification in Europe; 6. 'Constitution'. Treaties' fragmentation and Europe's constitutional fetishism.

About the author

Antoine Vauchez is a Research Professor at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Université Paris 1-Sorbonne/CNRS.

Summary

This book questions the entanglement between law and EU polity-building, bringing new historical material and new sociological insights into the role lawyers have played in shaping Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Antoine Vauchez, Antoine (Universite De Paris I) Vauchez, Vauchez Antoine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108735247
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73524-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European; Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / International, Politics & government, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law