Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

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. Päivi 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 Castrén 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.

1. Introduction Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino-Sandberg; Part I. Theorising Legal Expertise: 2. Performing legal expertise: reflections on the construction of transnational authority Martti Koskenniemi; 3. Expertise as framing Matthew Windsor; 4. In and out the window of opportunity between the state and law firms. Lawyers' double agency in contemporary France Pierre France and Antoine Vauchez; 5. Legal professionalism and (legal) expertise in EU lawmaking Hans-W. Micklitz; Part II. In-House Legal Expertise: 6. WANTED: a creative lawyer with great technical skills for demanding work in the European parliament Päivi Leino; 7. The politics of legal expertise at Westminster in times of crisis Benjamin Yong; 8. International bureaucracies: extraterritorial reach of the European commission's legal expertise Anu Bradford; 9. Transparency in Eu-Asian free trade agreements: the negotiating capital of trade experts Chris Kimura and Fernanda G. Nicola; Part III. External Legal Expertise: 10. The rise of transnational legal experts: two lessons from research on private practitioners as euro-lawyers Lola Avril; 11. Rock 'n' Roll stars or guitar technicians? Legal advisors as legal experts in NGO lobbying Emilia Korkea-aho; 12. Legal expertise, environmental groups and Brexit: beyond the limits Maria Lee and Carolyn Abbot; 13. Bureaucrats in the classroom? Epistemic governance and the expert legal scholar Jan Klabbers; 14. Verfassungsblog, legal expertise and why Europe's 'computer is not working as it should' Maximilian Steinbeis with the editors; 15. Afterword: the four questions and one answer Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino-Sandber.