TY - BOOK AU - Vauchez,Antoine AU - Witte,Bruno de TI - Lawyering Europe: European law as a transnational social field T2 - Modern studies in European law SN - 9781849463782 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford United Kingdom PB - Portland, Oregon, Hart Pub KW - Legjislacioni = Legislation KW - Bashkimi Evropian KW - Avokatët = Lawyers N1 - Introduction. Euro-lawyering, transnational social fields and European polity-building / Antoine Vauchez -- Part. I : Repeat players -- "Ten majestic figures in long Amaranth robes" : the formation of the Court of Justice of the European Communities / Antonin Cohen -- The role of legal services in the elaboration of European legislation / Jean Paul Jacqué -- From the margins on the European legal field : the governments' agents and their influence on the development of European Union Law / Marie-Pierre Granger -- Part II. Centres and peripheries -- Courts united? On European judicial networks / Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes -- European Union law : a unified academic discipline? / Bruno de Witte -- The ECHR and the birth of (European) human rights law as an academic discipline / Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez -- Part III. European elites and their legal credentials. Where have all the lawyers gone? Structures and transformations of top European Commission officials' legal training / Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassalle; 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 -- Law and lawyers in the Brussels world of commercial consultants / Christian Lahusen -- Part IV. The disputed role of law in the government of Europe. -- The power of legal knowledge in the reform of fundamental law : the case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights / Mikael Rask Madsen -- Soft law and the rule of law in the European Union : revision or redundancy? / Mark Dawson -- Eurolegalism and the European legal field / R. Daniel Kelemen -- Opportunities and limits of a weak field : lawyers and the genesis of a field of European economic power / Yves Dezalay ER -