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  • 5 - Legal Professionalism and (Legal) Expertise in EU Lawmaking

  • from Part I - Theorising Legal Expertise
  • Edited by Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 72-92

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on how the European integration process affects the role and function of the legal profession. The chapter starts from a number of observations on transformations in the legal profession, from the growth of the legal profession to the increasing tension between local and national lawyers versus those working in European and global settings. The overall development culminates in the European expert rhetoric, which is driven and promoted by the European Commission. Experts are expected to fill spaces in the endless numbers of European committees, and the whole inner machinery of the EU is dependent on self-named and EU certified experts. What then is a European legal expert? How does a legal expert differ from other experts? This chapter uses the professionalisation theory by Oevermann to test whether and to what extent legal professionalism is replaced by a legal expertise rhetoric and what it could mean for legal professionalism and the European legal profession.