Antoine Vauchez is Research Professor at the CNRS/University of Paris I, Sorbonne.Bruno de Witte is Professor of Law at the University of Maastricht and at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.

• Introduction. Euro-lawyering, Transnational Social Fields and European Polity-Building Antoine VauchezPart I: Repeat Players1. 'Ten Majestic Figures in Long Amaranth Robes': The Formation of theCourt of Justice of the European Communities Antonin Cohen2. The Role of Legal Services in the Elaboration of European Legislation Jean Paul Jacqué3. From the Margins on the European Legal Field: The Governments' Agentsand their Influence on the Development of European Union Law Marie-Pierre GrangerPart II: Centres and Peripheries4. Courts United? On European Judicial Networks Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes5. European Union Law: A Unified Academic Discipline? Bruno de Witte6. The ECHR and the Birth of (European) Human Rights Law as anAcademic Discipline Stéphanie Hennette-VauchezPart III: European Elites and their Legal Credentials7. Where Have all the Lawyers Gone? Structures and Transformations ofTop European Commission Officials' Legal Training Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle8. The Creation of Institutional Expertise at the European Parliament: Legal and Political Resources of the Members of the Constitutional Affairs Committee Laurent Godmer and Guillaume Marrel9. Law and Lawyers in the Brussels World of Commercial Consultants Christian LahusenPart IV: The Disputed Role of Law in the Government of Europe10. The Power of Legal Knowledge in the Reform of Fundamental Law: The Case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights Mikael Rask Madsen11. Soft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy? Mark Dawson12. Eurolegalism and the European Legal Field R Daniel Kelemen13. Opportunities and Limits of a Weak Field: Lawyers and the Genesis of a Field of European Economic Power Yves Dezalay

Vauchez and de Witte have assembled a volume which provides many excellent and diverse perspectives on law, the legal profession, and actors across the legal field and their contribution to the process of European integration....any student of European Law, a lawyer or political scientist searching for a different perspective on the process of European Integration, this volume will provide many answers, and likely inspire many new avenues of exploration.

Antoine Vauchez is Research Professor at the CNRS/University of Paris I, Sorbonne.Bruno de Witte is Professor of Law at the University of Maastricht and at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.

• Introduction. Euro-lawyering, Transnational Social Fields and European Polity-Building Antoine VauchezPart I: Repeat Players1. 'Ten Majestic Figures in Long Amaranth Robes': The Formation of theCourt of Justice of the European Communities Antonin Cohen2. The Role of Legal Services in the Elaboration of European Legislation Jean Paul Jacqué3. From the Margins on the European Legal Field: The Governments' Agentsand their Influence on the Development of European Union Law Marie-Pierre GrangerPart II: Centres and Peripheries4. Courts United? On European Judicial Networks Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes5. European Union Law: A Unified Academic Discipline? Bruno de Witte6. The ECHR and the Birth of (European) Human Rights Law as anAcademic Discipline Stéphanie Hennette-VauchezPart III: European Elites and their Legal Credentials7. Where Have all the Lawyers Gone? Structures and Transformations ofTop European Commission Officials' Legal Training Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle8. The Creation of Institutional Expertise at the European Parliament: Legal and Political Resources of the Members of the Constitutional Affairs Committee Laurent Godmer and Guillaume Marrel9. Law and Lawyers in the Brussels World of Commercial Consultants Christian LahusenPart IV: The Disputed Role of Law in the Government of Europe10. The Power of Legal Knowledge in the Reform of Fundamental Law: The Case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights Mikael Rask Madsen11. Soft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy? Mark Dawson12. Eurolegalism and the European Legal Field R Daniel Kelemen13. Opportunities and Limits of a Weak Field: Lawyers and the Genesis of a Field of European Economic Power Yves Dezalay

Vauchez and de Witte have assembled a volume which provides many excellent and diverse perspectives on law, the legal profession, and actors across the legal field and their contribution to the process of European integration....any student of European Law, a lawyer or political scientist searching for a different perspective on the process of European Integration, this volume will provide many answers, and likely inspire many new avenues of exploration.

Antoine Vauchez is Research Professor at the CNRS/University of Paris I, Sorbonne.Bruno de Witte is Professor of Law at the University of Maastricht and at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.

• Introduction. Euro-lawyering, Transnational Social Fields and European Polity-Building Antoine VauchezPart I: Repeat Players1. 'Ten Majestic Figures in Long Amaranth Robes': The Formation of theCourt of Justice of the European Communities Antonin Cohen2. The Role of Legal Services in the Elaboration of European Legislation Jean Paul Jacqué3. From the Margins on the European Legal Field: The Governments' Agentsand their Influence on the Development of European Union Law Marie-Pierre GrangerPart II: Centres and Peripheries4. Courts United? On European Judicial Networks Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes5. European Union Law: A Unified Academic Discipline? Bruno de Witte6. The ECHR and the Birth of (European) Human Rights Law as anAcademic Discipline Stéphanie Hennette-VauchezPart III: European Elites and their Legal Credentials7. Where Have all the Lawyers Gone? Structures and Transformations ofTop European Commission Officials' Legal Training Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle8. The Creation of Institutional Expertise at the European Parliament: Legal and Political Resources of the Members of the Constitutional Affairs Committee Laurent Godmer and Guillaume Marrel9. Law and Lawyers in the Brussels World of Commercial Consultants Christian LahusenPart IV: The Disputed Role of Law in the Government of Europe10. The Power of Legal Knowledge in the Reform of Fundamental Law: The Case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights Mikael Rask Madsen11. Soft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy? Mark Dawson12. Eurolegalism and the European Legal Field R Daniel Kelemen13. Opportunities and Limits of a Weak Field: Lawyers and the Genesis of a Field of European Economic Power Yves Dezalay

Vauchez and de Witte have assembled a volume which provides many excellent and diverse perspectives on law, the legal profession, and actors across the legal field and their contribution to the process of European integration....any student of European Law, a lawyer or political scientist searching for a different perspective on the process of European Integration, this volume will provide many answers, and likely inspire many new avenues of exploration.