Brokering Europe : Euro-lawyers and the making of a transnational polity /
"Ever 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 o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in European law and policy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Series Editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part IUnity through law: inventing Europe's 'integration programme'; 1 Three Treaties, one Community: institution-building and legal strategies to unify Europe; Claiming objectivity: the European Commission and the guardianship of the Treaties; The constitutional doctrine of Professor Hallstein; A ministry of law; Europe's political laboratory: the European Parliament and the building of a collective expertise in institutional reform.
- The politicians of the lawEuro-parliamentarism and the institutional unity of Europe; A supreme court? The European Court and its constitutional doctrine; The impossible Court of Justice; A contested interpreter; Judicializing the Court; A supranational market? Euro-lawyer's and Europes economic constitution; Brussels as a new marketplace; Euro-lawyers as corporate brokers; Conclusion; 2 The force of a weak field: the transnational field of European law and the formation of Europe's polity; The genesis of a transnational legal field; State knowledge and European heresies.
- The making of the EC sui generisThe academic and judicial guardians of the States; Academic and judicial endorsement; A courtroom for Europe; Co-opted academia?; The 'irréductible diplomatique'; A field at the crossroads of Europe; A functional decoupling; Caesurae and censorings at the national level; Proximities and exchanges under the aegis of European law; Professionals of European interdependence; Legal cosmopolitans; National brokers of Europe; 3 The 'Van Gend en Loos moment'; Between predictions and hindsight: the making of a landmark decision; Mobilizing for judicial fiat.
- A polysemous decisionJudicial ventriloquism: Van Gend en Loos and its legal entrepreneurs; Manufacturing content: Van Gend en Loos and its 'implications'; Debating the 'logic' of the European Treaties; Dramatizing the stakes; Politicizing the issue of the legal logic of the European Treaties; Europes integration programme; A new common sense; A Community of law; PartII Jurisprudence, code, constitution: Europe's building blocks in the making; 4 'Jurisprudence': transnational esprit de corps and the Court's perpetual momentum; Perpetuating the founding fathers' spirit; A precarious setting.
- The commemorative undertakingThe making of jurisprudence: the Court's invented tradition; Stratifying and profiling the Court; The founding fathers: the Court's spokesmen and putative heirs; Paths of European judicial glory; 5 'Code': the formation of the acquis communautaire and the legal objectification in Europe; Calculating Europe; A legal artefact; Europe's corpus juris; A common platform for Europe's polity; Shaping jurisprudence; Monitoring implementation; Envisioning political unity; Representing Europe.