Päivi Leino-Sandberg

Emilia Korkea-aho

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.

Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

"Legal advisers working for the European Union (EU) seldom capture the popular imagination. Even for an astute follower of EU matters, their work is more likely to appear like a dry-as-dust service to an obscure bureaucracy, a service tasked to fine-tune the technical details of some documents - a report, legislative proposal, or communication - and ensure compliance with some standards of concern only to other lawyers. Yet, this view is deceiving. Legal advisers seldom steal the limelight, and are even less likely to seek it. Still, readers of any news outlet focusing on EU matters may recall times when new EU measures envisaged by the Commission faced legal difficulties"--

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