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  • 4 - Lawyers, Revolving Doors and the Public-Private Foundations of the French Regulatory State

  • from Part I - Theorising Legal Expertise
  • Edited by Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 55-71

  • Summary

    The chapter scrutinises the formation of a new type of legal expertise at the crossing between public and private law in France. It provides a sociological mapping of the blurring of ‘private-public’ divide through the rise of Parisian law firms and their historical repositioning in the French field of power as key brokers and a central crossroad in-between State and market actors. Through an in-depth analysis of more than two hundred individual career paths of leading politicians and high civil servants that have circulated from the various branches of the public sector (government offices, parliamentary committees, regulatory agencies, courts, etc.) to large corporate law firms (the so-called pantouflage), it offers a sociological assessment of the unprecedented blurring of the ‘public-private’ divide that has been taking place over the past two decades.

  • 1 - From Methodological Shifts to EU Law’s Embeddedness

  • Edited by Mikael Rask Madsen, University of Copenhagen, Fernanda Nicola, American University, Washington DC, Antoine Vauchez
  • Book:
    Researching the European Court of Justice
    Published online:
    05 May 2022
    Print publication:
    26 May 2022, pp 1-24

  • Summary

    The article provides a general introduction to the book. It introduces the readers to the new strand of empirical and interdisciplinary scholarship that has emerged over the past decade in the study of the EU law, lawyers and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Taking stock of the on-going ‘methodological turn’ in this field, it presents the new interdisciplinary research strategies and empirical material mobilized to analyze the Court of Justice of the European Union. Altogether, the twelve case-studies cut away from the top-down approach to the EU law and the CJEU, and allow for a more localized and fine-grained observation of the socio-legal actors and practices actors involved in CJEU case law. As the introduction moves beyond mainstream legal scholarship and ‘grand narratives’ of legal integration, the edited volume provides a more historically informed and sociologically grounded account of the EU law’s (unequal) embeddedness in Europe’s economies et societies.

Researching the European Court of Justice
  • Methodological Shifts and Law's Embeddedness
  • Edited by Mikael Rask Madsen, Fernanda Nicola, Antoine Vauchez
  • Published online:
    05 May 2022
    Print publication:
    26 May 2022
  • The book takes stock of the on-going 'methodological turn' in the field of EU law scholarship. Introducing a new generation of scholars of the European Court of Justice from law, history, sociology, political science and linguistics, it provides a set of novel interdisciplinary research strategies and empirical materials for the study of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The twelve case studies included challenge the usual top-down approach to EU law and the CJEU and instead suggest a more localized and fine-grained observation of the socio-legal actors and practices involved in the making of CJEU case-law. Moving beyond mainstream legal scholarship and the established 'grand narratives' of legal integration, the volume provides a more historically-informed and sociologically-grounded account of the EU law's uneven embeddedness in Europe's economies and societies.

  • EU law, down to earth

  • Antoine Vauchez
  • Journal:
    European Law Open / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / March 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 April 2022, pp. 148-149
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  • The emergence and consolidation of European Community law (later European Union law) was rendered possible by key legal and political actors drawing a map of supranational law with the key concepts of direct effect, primacy and uniformity. The underlying assumption was that the actual territory of the law, the law on the ground, would come to fit into the drawn map. However, the last two decades have seen trust on the transformative power of the map drawn through such concepts decline, not least due to related developments. First, what looked like residual points of resistance have become polarized sources of contention over the scope and meaning of EU law; (2) sheer indifference towards EU law has emerged as a relevant attitude, partially replacing acceptance or opposition. Both developments have not led not only to a crisis of European law, but also to an existential crisis of the very actors (the “cartographers”) in charge of drawing the map of European law.

  • In Search of Europe’s Phantom Public. “Public-ness” and the European Union

  • Antoine Vauchez
  • Journal:
    German Law Journal / Volume 21 / Issue 1 / January 2020
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    14 January 2020, pp. 46-50
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  • The Strange Non-Death of Statism: Tracing the Ever Protracted Rise of Judicial Self-Government in France

  • Antoine Vauchez
  • Journal:
    German Law Journal / Volume 19 / Issue 7 / 01 December 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2019, pp. 1613-1640
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  • The article explores the “strange non-death” of the French statist tradition in matters regarding the judiciary. It traces the formation of the specific French model of government of the judiciary describing the stronghold established by the duopole of the Cour de cassation and the ministry of justice's bureaucracy (the so-called Chancellerie) over time (1810-1993) and the failed attempt of the IVth Republic (1946-1958) to unsettle this power balance. It then considers the new context that emerged in the 1990s and analyzes successive reforms that have tried to undermine this deep-seated tradition. In the last part, the article provides an overall assessment of the impact of these reforms on the independence, accountability, and legitimacy of the French judiciary.

  • Statesmen of Independence: The International Fabric of Europe's Way of Political Legitimacy

  • ANTOINE VAUCHEZ
  • Journal:
    Contemporary European History / Volume 27 / Issue 2 / May 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 April 2018, pp. 183-201
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    May 2018

  • Scholars generally agree that ‘independent’ institutions such as the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and European Central Bank have created a space and role for themselves that has no equivalent in national political settings. However, we still lack a better understanding of the importance of this independent branch in the EU polity. This article contends that the central relevance of independence is connected to the historically rooted connection between ‘independence’ and ‘international government’ – a relationship the history of which can be traced back to the League of Nations’ foundational period as the inaugural scene for the nexus between power and knowledge in international politics. Ultimately, this article questions the extent to which this specific grammar of international government has been constitutive of the EC polity in terms of valued modes of legitimacy and types of authority.

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