Brokering Europe

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

• 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.

'... 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 that 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'.' Hans-W. Micklitz, Journal of Consumer Policy