KAREN MCAULIFFE

The overarching aim of the LLECJ project is to elaborate a new understanding of the development of EU law by examining the process behind the production of the multilingual jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ). Achieving that goal involves bringing together research fields which traditionally pay little attention to each other - linguistic theories, anthropological research methods and law. By analysing the relationship between law, language and translation in the jurisprudence of the ECJ, using methodological tools borrowed from fields outside of law, the LLECJ project aims to introduce a new facet to the current thinking on the development of the EU legal order... In recent years, sociologists and anthropologists have shown great interest in EU institutions - in particular the European Parliament and Commission - and various studies and ethnographies of those institutions have been carried out. Such studies, based on periods of fieldwork research in the..