Event Highlights: Book Launch and Discussion with Mitchel Lasser and Antoine Vauchez
This book launch and conversation with Mitchel Lasser and Antoine Vauchez took place via Zoom on Friday, October 16, 2020 as a concurrent panel of the 2020 meeting of the American Society of the American Society of Comparative Law. It was hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University (CSE) and moderated by CSE Director and Professor of Law, Daniela Caruso. Fernanda Nicola, Professor of Law and Director of the Program on International Organizations Law and Diplomacy at the Washington College of Law, American University, and Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College, participated as discussants.
Mitchel Lasser is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law, Director of Graduate Studies, and co-directer of the Cornell Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris. He teaches and writes in the areas of comparative law, law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, and judicial process. Lasser presented his book Judicial (Dis-)Appointments: Debating Judicial Independence and Judicial Quality at the ECJ and the ECtHR (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, November 2020).
Antoine Vauchez is CNRS Research professor at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne. He has published extensively on expertise and politics in contemporary European democracies and the EU, notably Brokering Europe: Euro-lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity (2015). Vauchez presented The Neoliberal Republic: Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France (forthcoming from Cornell University Press, January 2021).