Contestation of Expertise in the European Union

Vigjilenca Abazi is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.Johan Adriaensen is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.Thomas Christiansen is Professor of Political Science and European Integration in the Political Science Department, Luiss Università Guido Carli, Italy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Role of Scientific Expertise in EU Policy-making: Ever Greater Contestation?.- Chapter 2. Conceptualising the Role of Expertise in EU Policy-making.- Chapter 3. The Europeanization of national knowledge regimes.- Chapter 4. Winning hearts, losing minds: politicisation and the contestation of expertise in the context of TTIP negotiations.- Chapter 5. The European Commission’s Expert Groups: Adapting to the Contestation of Expertise.- Chapter 6. The role of Expertise in the EU’s Emerging Diplomatic System.- Chapter 7. Climate Science in the Courts.- Chapter 8. Judicial review of science-based measures under WTO law.- Chapter 9. Contesting Concentrated Scientific Power: The case of the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Adviser.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: The Contestation of Expertise in the EU.