Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

Description

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.

Emilia Korkea-aho is Professor of European Law and Legislative Studies at University of Eastern Finland Law School, and Academy of Finland Research Fellow, and Visiting Fellow at the Maastricht Centre for European Law. Her research interests cover EU institutional and constitutional law, and she has published in the areas of EU governance and soft law, lobbying and its regulation, and EU law methodologies. In 2020, she received the Academy of Finland Award for Social Impact for her work on lobbying and its regulation. Paivi Leino-Sandberg is Professor of Transnational European Law and Director of the Master's Programme in Global Governance Law at the University of Helsinki. She is Deputy Director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights where she leads five international research projects in various areas of EU law. Before returning full time to the academia in 2015, she worked for over 10 years as a legal adviser for the Finnish government participating in numerous EU and international negotiations and Court cases.