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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lawyering Europe: European Law as a Transnational Social Field by Edited by Antoine Vauchez Edited by Bruno de Witte
While scholars have dealt exhaustively with the role of law in the process of European integration so far little light has been shed on the lawyers and communities of lawyers involved in that process. Law has been thoroughly investigated as an aspect of the integration process with EU law becoming a well-established academic discipline and European law in context emerging more recently as an impressive sub-field. Yet scholarly enquiry has been largely focused on the role of the European courts underestimating the multifaceted roles lawyers and law play in the EU polity notably beyond the litigation arena. This volume seeks to promote a deeper understanding of European law as a social and political phenomenon presenting a more complete view of the European legal field by looking beyond the courts and at the same time broadening the scholarly horizon by exploring the ways in which European law is actually made. To do this it describes the roles of the great variety of actors behind legal norms and decisions bringing together perspectives from various disciplines (law political science political sociology and history) to offer a global multi-disciplinary reassessment of the role of law and lawyers in the European integration process.