The European Legal Field – Le champ juridique européen
Colloque co-organisé par Bruno de Witte (EUI) et Antoine Vauchez (EUI, CNRS) Avec le soutien du Centre Robert Schuman et de l’Académie de droit européen
Institut Universitaire Européen 25/26 September 2008
During the last twenty years, an impressive body of legal, political science and sociological literature on “European law in context” has been produced. Most of it pointed at the intricate relationship between the European Court of Justice and its various
« interlocutors » (national jurisdictions, interest groups, multinationals…) through which Europeanization and judicialization were connected. However, this judicial narrative has led to undersetimate the multifaceted roles lawyers and law play in the EU polity, notably the roles they play beyond the litigation arena. It is the aim of this Conference to re- consider this global role of law and lawyers by bringing together perspectives from various disciplines (law, political science, political sociology, history…). The notion of
« field », drawn from Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, can help widen the focus and contribute to reach that goal. First, because it points at the variegated set of specialized groups, professions and institutions that hold stakes in defining what EU law and lawyers are and should be. In that respect, the notion of a “European legal field” may prove to be an incentive towards further investigation on national or transnational legal milieus.
Secondly, it encourages to look at the (now disputed) role of legal training and savoir- faire as a necessary credential for the European Union’s political, bureaucratic and economic elites. In this respect, the Conference will lead beyond the European legal field in the strict sense, and consider the many arenas, policies and institutions where the capacity of law to provide Europe with devices and guidelines for its reform and future is discussed by competing sciences of EU government (economics, etc…).
The conference will take place on Thursday 25 September and Friday 26 2008 at the European University Institute in Florence. It is organised with the support of Academy of European Law and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Thursday 25 September 2008
9.30-13 : Logiques et acteurs nationaux dans la production d’un droit
commun/National actors and approaches in the construction of a common law Discussant : J.-P. Jacqué (Council of the EU)
M.P. Granger (CEU Budapest), “Governments in Luxembourg: the national coordination of European litigation”
D. Anagnostou (Eliamep, Athens), « The Strasbourg Court : patterns of litigation, State implementation and domestic reform »
B. De Witte (EUI), “European law: a unified academic discipline?”
S. Hennette-Vauchez (EUI), « Divided in diversity. National legal scholarships and ECHR law »
14-16 : La question de l’influence américaine/The question of American influence Discussant : K. Patel (EUI)
Y. Dezalay (CNRS), « Genèse et structure d'un espace européen du lobbying »
G. Morgan (Warwick Univ.), « US law firms and EU anti-trust »
D. Kelemen (Rutgers Univ.), “American legal adversarialism and the European Union”
16.30-18.30: Milieux et marchés juridiques européens/European legal milieux and markets
Discussant: H. Micklitz (EUI) tbc
M. Madsen (Copenhagen Univ.), « The ECHR and the rise of a European field of human righs »
M. Claes (Univ. Tilburg), “European legal and judicial networks”
Sara Dezalay (EUI), « Des droits de l'homme à un marché européen de la gestion de conflits armés »
Friday 26 September 2008
9-12.30 : Le capital juridique des élites communautaires/The legal capital of the Community elites
Discussant : Y. Dezalay (CNRS)
A. Cohen (Univ. Picardie), “Scarlet robes, dark suits: the social recruitment of the European Court of Justice”
M. de Lassale (Univ. Strasbourg), D. Georgakakis (Univ. Strasbourg), « La formation juridique des hauts fonctionnaires européens : structures et transformations »
G. Marrel (Univ. Avignon), « Le leadership constitutionnel au Parlement européen : le capital juridique actualisé du groupe d'autorité de l'AFCO »
C. Lahusen (Univ. de Siegen), « Law and lawyers in Brussels’ world of commercial consultants »
13.30-16.30 : Le droit comme science du gouvernement européen (et ses contestations)/The disputed role of law as the science of European government Discussant : M. Cremona (EUI)
J.P. Jacqué (Conseil de l’UE), « Les juristes dans la fabrication des lois européennes » H. Schweitzer (EUI), “The interaction of law and economics in European competition policy”
K. Armstrong (Queen Mary, London, tbc). « Europeanization through de-legalization? » A. Vauchez (EUI, CNRS), “Integration-through-case-law : trajectoire historique du magistère politique du droit”
