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Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

Editors:
Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland
Päivi Leino-Sandberg, University of Helsinki

Emilia Korkea-aho, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Martti Koskenniemi, Matthew Windsor, Pierre France, Antoine Vauchez, Hans-W. Micklitz, Benjamin Yong, Anu Bradford, Chris Kimura, Fernanda G. Nicola, Lola Avril, Maria Lee, Carolyn Abbot, Jan Klabbers, Maximilian Steinbeis

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Date Published: October 2022
availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108830126

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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.
- Sheds light on little-studied decision-making processes and actors at European Union, international, and national levels, adding to the literature on EU law, integration theories, and studies on expertise and the legal profession
- Introduces the theoretical literature on expertise using concrete examples, rendering the theory accessible to readers without specialised training in law or political science or prior knowledge
- Introduces new voices and viewpoints into the field of qualitative socio-legal research and brings together perspectives from law and political sociology to show how different disciplines can interact
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'… the reader will learn a lot. … This volume offers food for thought whether we are legal experts ourselves or we are citizens: the final beneficiaries of policies that legal experts helped create.' Ana Bobić, Common Market Law Review

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- Date Published: October 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108830126
- length: 400 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
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.
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Editors
Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland
Emilia Korkea-aho is Professor of European Law and Legislative Studies at University of Eastern Finland Law School, and Academy of Finland Research Fellow, and Visiting Fellow at the Maastricht Centre for European Law. Her research interests cover EU institutional and constitutional law, and she has published in the areas of EU governance and soft law, lobbying and its regulation, and EU law methodologies. In 2020, she received the Academy of Finland Award for Social Impact for her work on lobbying and its regulation.
Päivi Leino-Sandberg, University of Helsinki
Päivi Leino-Sandberg is Professor of Transnational European Law and Director of the Master's Programme in Global Governance Law at the University of Helsinki. She is Deputy Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights where she leads five international research projects in various areas of EU law. Before returning full time to the academia in 2015, she worked for over 10 years as a legal adviser for the Finnish government participating in numerous EU and international negotiations and Court cases.
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Emilia Korkea-aho, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Martti Koskenniemi, Matthew Windsor, Pierre France, Antoine Vauchez, Hans-W. Micklitz, Benjamin Yong, Anu Bradford, Chris Kimura, Fernanda G. Nicola, Lola Avril, Maria Lee, Carolyn Abbot, Jan Klabbers, Maximilian Steinbeis