The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe

ISBN-13: 9781316513910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 390 str.

Tommaso (University of Arizona) Pavone

Opis

The Ghostwriters unmasks how lawyers catalyse policy change across borders by encouraging deliberate law-breaking and mobilizing courts against their own governments.

Recenzje

'By casting light on agents of social change whom scholars have largely neglected to date, Pavone makes a significant contribution to the socio-legal scholarship on the construction of the European Union.' Florian Grisel, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction; 1. The politics of ghostwriting lawyers; Part II. Judges and resistance to change; 2. Revisiting judicial empowerment in Europe; 3. Renouncing power and resisting change; 4. The limits of rebellion; Part III. Lawyers and the uneven push for change; 5. The first Euro-Lawyers and the invention of a repertoire; 6. Hot spots and cold spots; Part IV. Lawyers and the rise of contentious politics; 7. Euro-Lawyering goes public; 8. Euro-Lawyering goes silent; Part V. Conclusion; 9. Making sense of ghostwriters.