Brokering Europe : Euro-lawyers and the making of a transnational polity
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Brokering Europe : Euro-lawyers and the making of a transnational polity
(Cambridge studies in European law and policy)
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-257) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the 1960s, the nature and the future of the European Union have been defined in legal terms. Yet, we are still in need of an explanation as to how this entanglement between law and EU polity-building emerged and how it was maintained over time. While most of the literature offers a disembodied account of European legal integration, Brokering Europe reveals the multifaceted roles Euro-lawyers have played in EU polity, notably beyond the litigation arena. In particular, the book points at select transnational groups of multipositioned legal entrepreneurs which have been in a situation to elevate the role of law in all sorts of EU venues. In doing so, it draws from a new set of intellectual resources (field theory) and empirical strategies only very recently mobilized for the study of the EU. Grounded on an extensive historical investigation, Brokering Europe provides a revised narrative of the 'constitutionalization of Europe'.
Table 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.
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