Thomas Piketty

Guillaume Sacriste

Antoine Vauchez

Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez

Comment contenir le déferlement de la vague populiste qui risque de balayer nos démocraties ? Comment prévenir l'éclatement de l'Union européenne ? Pour mettre fin à des politiques disqualifiées, mettre l'austérité en minorité, lutter contre les inégalités, il est urgent de démocratiser la zone euro. Repris par Benoit Hamon, validé par les meilleurs juristes européens, ce projet de traité institue une Assemblée parlementaire de la zone euro. Ce traité peut être adopté en l'état par les pays qui s'y rallieront. Il a été rédigé une équipe pluridisciplinaire composée de juristes, politistes et d'économistes. Le texte du traité est précédé d'une introduction présentant sa mise en oeuvre de façon pédagogique.

Pour un traité de démocratisation de l'Europe

Stéphanie Hennette

The European Union has long suffered from a lack of democratic accountability. In the past decade, the problem has become particularly acute in the economic management of the Eurozone, the 19 countries of the E.U. that use the Euro (nine members don't). At present, the central institution for management of the Eurozone is the Eurogroup, an informal body led by national finance ministers who report neither to the European Parliament nor to national parliaments but coordinate their activities with the Troika, that is, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Council. Critics accuse the Eurogroup both of lack of transparency and of consistently putting the interests of the rich northwest ahead of the interests of poorer and smaller nations in the east and south. In How to Democratize Europe, four distinguished French scholars describe the diverse problems of the Eurozone and propose a treaty that would establish a parliament for economic policy consisting of selected members of national parliaments. Various contributors then respond to the proposal with support, criticism, or ideas for alternatives.--

How to Democratize Europe

Fernanda Nicola

Mikael Rask Madsen

The book explores cutting-edge interdisciplinary research strategies for the study of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Methodological Shifts and Law's Embeddedness

Researching the European Court of Justice

Since the 1960s, the nature and the future of the European Union have been defined in legal terms. Yet, we are still in need of an explanation as to how this entanglement between law and EU polity-building emerged and how it was maintained over time. While most of the literature offers a disembodied account of European legal integration, Brokering Europe reveals the multifaceted roles Euro-lawyers have played in EU polity, notably beyond the litigation arena. In particular, the book points at select transnational groups of multipositioned legal entrepreneurs which have been in a situation to elevate the role of law in all sorts of EU venues. In doing so, it draws from a new set of intellectual resources (field theory) and empirical strategies only very recently mobilized for the study of the EU. Grounded on an extensive historical investigation, Brokering Europe provides a revised narrative of the 'constitutionalization of Europe'.

Euro-Lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity

Brokering Europe

Pierre France

The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades. Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil-servants-turned-corporate-lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.

Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France

The Neoliberal Republic

A new historical and sociological account for the broad definitional power of law in the European Union polity.

Antoine Vauchez

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