Lawyering Europe

Introduction. Euro-lawyering, Transnational Social Fields and European Polity-Building
Antoine Vauchez
Part I: Repeat Players
1. 'Ten Majestic Figures in Long Amaranth Robes': The Formation of theCourt of Justice of the European Communities
Antonin Cohen
2. The Role of Legal Services in the Elaboration of European Legislation
Jean Paul Jacqué
3. From the Margins on the European Legal Field: The Governments' Agentsand their Influence on the Development of European Union Law
Marie-Pierre Granger
Part II: Centres and Peripheries
4. Courts United? On European Judicial Networks
Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes
5. European Union Law: A Unified Academic Discipline?
Bruno de Witte
6. The ECHR and the Birth of (European) Human Rights Law as anAcademic Discipline
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez
Part III: European Elites and their Legal Credentials
7. Where Have all the Lawyers Gone? Structures and Transformations ofTop European Commission Officials' Legal Training
Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle
8. 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 Marrel
9. Law and Lawyers in the Brussels World of Commercial Consultants
Christian Lahusen
Part IV: The Disputed Role of Law in the Government of Europe
10. The Power of Legal Knowledge in the Reform of Fundamental Law: The Case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
Mikael Rask Madsen
11. Soft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy?
Mark Dawson
12. Eurolegalism and the European Legal Field
R Daniel Kelemen
13. Opportunities and Limits of a Weak Field: Lawyers and the Genesis of a Field of European Economic Power
Yves Dezalay