Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

Author: Emilia Korkea-aho; Päivi Leino-Sandberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108821643
Published In: April 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This edited collection examines the changing role of the legal profession as experts in the context of European Union policy-making. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research and the idea of law as a social and political practice, this socio-legal work brings together a group of legal scholars and political scientists to investigate how lawyers, through the deployment of their expertise and knowledge, act as experts in matters of EU related policy-making at the national, European and international levels. It provides new theoretical viewpoints and untold stories from legal experts themselves, promotes an evolving definition of what constitutes legal expertise and what shapes legal experts in a time when experts are in equal measure both revered and ignored, and introduces new critical voices in the field of EU socio-legal studies.

1. Introduction

Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino-Sandberg

Part I. Theorising Legal Expertise:

2. Performing legal expertise: reflections on the construction of transnational authority

Martti Koskenniemi

3. Expertise as framing Matthew Windsor

4. In and out the window of opportunity between the state and law firms. Lawyers' double agency in contemporary France

Pierre France and Antoine Vauchez

5. Legal professionalism and (legal) expertise in EU lawmaking

Hans-W. Micklitz

Part II. In-House Legal Expertise:

6. WANTED: a creative lawyer with great technical skills for demanding work in the European parliament