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dc.contributor.authorLAHUSEN, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-23T15:58:55Z
dc.date.available2008-12-23T15:58:55Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/10030
dc.descriptionThis paper was originally presented at the Conference “The European Legal Field-Le champ juridique européen” organized by Bruno de Witte and Antoine Vauchez with the Robert Schuman Centre and the Academy of European Law (European University Institute, 25-26 September 2008).en
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that European public affairs is a growing labour market exposed to a gradual institutionalization, albeit important internal cleavages and fragmentations. The primary focus of the analysis is on the position and orientation of legal firms and consultants. The author agrees to scholarly writing by underlining that commercial consultants and lobbyists do not belong to the powerful actors and stakeholders of the European arena. However, he argues that these companies do have an important impact on European politics on another dimension of analysis, because they play an active role (along with the European institutions, amongst others) in the construction and organization of public affairs as a labour-market of paid work on the basis of specific skills, shared claims to superior knowledge and ethical commitments. While the legal profession tries to preserve its own professional status and privilege, and attempts to dissociate itself from the dusky work of interest representation and lobbying, it cannot detach itself from the steady institutionalization and professionalization of European public affairs, which is having indirect effects on European politics.en
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dc.language.isoenen
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dc.relation.ispartofseries2008/36en
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dc.subjectEuropean Unionen
dc.subjectinterest representationen
dc.subjectlobbyingen
dc.subjectcommercial consultantsen
dc.subjectpublica affairsen
dc.subjectlegal professionen
dc.subjectlegal firmsen
dc.titleLaw and Lawyers in Brussels’ World of Commercial Consultantsen
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