Tommaso Pavone | The Ghostwriters: Lawyers & the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe

December 8, 2022 book talk with Tommaso Pavone. This talk was hosted by Stanford University's The Europe Center (TEC). Anna Grzymala-Busse, TEC's director, introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&As.
Tommaso Pavone is Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona and Visiting Researcher at the ARENA Center at the University of Oslo. His new book with Cambridge University Press - The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe - reconstructs how entrepreneurial lawyers promoted the development of the EU by encouraging clients to break non-compliant state laws and mobilizing national courts against their own governments.