The map and the territory: Re-assessing EU law’s embeddedness in European societies
| Author | Antoine Vauchez |
| Published date | 01 April 2020 |
| Date | 01 April 2020 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1023263X20922015 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
The map and the territory:
Re-assessing EU law’s
embeddedness in
European societies
Antoine Vauchez*
Abstract
The Editorial takes stock of the current trends of inter-disciplinary scholarship on EU Law’s
infrastructural power.
Keywords
EU law, socio-legal studies, court of justice of the European union, infrastructural power,
integration through law
As I write these lines, the Advisory board and the Editorial committee of European Law Journal
have just resigned in sign of protest against the claims of the journal’s commercial publisher,
Wiley, to have exclusive control over the hire and fire of journal editors. By their bold move in
defense of academic freedom and autonomy, board members have reminded us all that journals are
not random venues for the fluxes of professional publications. They are also a critical pillar for the
dense yet fragile architecture of public knowledge that runs from universities and research centers
to public libraries, students and the wider set of NGOs, representatives, and media. As such, they
have a broad public value that needs to be acknowledged.
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* Centre europ ´
een de sociologie et science politique, Universit´
e Paris 1-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Corresponding author:
Antoine Vauchez, Cnrs Research professor, Centre europ´
een de sociologie et science politique, Universit´
e Paris
1-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
E-mail: antoine.vauchez@univ-paris1.fr
1. See the petition ‘In defense of academic freedom and autonomy’ signed by more than two hundred academics of the
field: https://verfassungsblog.de/in-defense-of-academic-freedom-and-autonomy/?fbclid¼IwAR3F8iLqGVLT3OM5O
8xxU0-OoEeQRTDrBxKRis-8RZZmfvxF0YIzAUR9BqA.
Maastricht Journal of European and
Comparative Law
2020, Vol. 27(2) 133–136
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