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"Since the 1960s onwards, the nature and the future of the European Union have been defined in legal terms. Yet, we are still in need of an explanation as to how this entanglement between Law and EU polity-building emerged and how it was maintained over time. While most of the literature offers a disembodied account of European legal integration, Brokering Europe reveals the multifaceted roles Euro-lawyers have played in EU polity, notably beyond the litigation arena. In particular, the book points at select transnational groups of multipositioned entrepreneurs that have elevated the role of law in all sorts of EU venues. In doing so, it draws from anew set of intellectual resources (field-theory) and empirical strategies only very recently mobilized for the study of the EU. Grounded on an extensive historical investigation, Brokering Europe provides a revised narrative of the 'constitutionalization of Europe'"

"How can we account for numerous and repeatedly failed attempts to redress the European Union's democratic deficit over the past three decades? In the wake of the Eurozone crisis, Democratizing Europe argues that part of our collective failure to re-orient the EU's trajectory lies in our failure to fully characterize the EU government's dependent path. Bringing together new streams of scholarship in history, law, sociology, and political science, this book suggests a new portrait of the EU's singular political model. Tasked with Europe's grand project, the edification of a unique economic and monetary Market, the European Court, Commission, and Central Bank have been the cradle in which the EU polity has been shaped, staged, and legitimized. In this context, it is no wonder that the many attempts to parliamentarize Europe have had limited democratic effects. Vauchez suggests that we recognize this historically-rooted centrality of Europe's independent branch and adapt our democratization strategies accordingly. "--

The recent infatuation of first rank politicians for the Paris bar is intriguing and suggests the need to re-examine the border area between "politics" and the "bar". The article proposes to go beyond the traditional alternative between the thesis of a return to the "Republic of Lawyers" and that of a drift toward a "Business Republic" and conflicts of interests. By following the circulations, the adding up and transfers of positions in the border area between the world of politics and that of the Paris Bar, one can identify the emergence of a totally new zone -- albeit well-limited and precarious -- of contiguities and interdependence at the edge of the worlds of political and administrative elite and business lawyers' practices. Adapted from the source document.

The present article explores the foundations or the authority of an international court, the European Court of Justice, which has neither a supranational professional corps nor a state apparatus to rely on. Based on a corpus of hitherto unexamined commemorative writings, we show the pains a judicial elite has taken to maintain a transnational esprit de corps since the 1970s Festschriften, laudations & other jubilees are the locus of a transnational effort to establish both the institutional identity of a Court whose legitimacy is fragile & the contours of a "community" of support which the Community courts draw on for their authority to pronounce "verdicts" on Europe. Adapted from the source document.