The law of the everyday : an inquiry into the legal fabrics of European lives

This collection of papers is the result of a seminar held in the fall of 2024 on ‘European Law of the Everyday. The Way We (Legally) Live in Europe Now’. The seminar was an attempt to develop an innovative legal method that explores the relationship between law and everyday life through the stories told in Ben Judah’s book ‘This is Europe: The Way We Live Now’ (2023). The book consists of a series of short stories about different forms of invisible yet ‘ordinary’ lives in today’s Europe. By dissecting the thin yet rich material collected in this book, this collection investigates the role of law in informing/or not, structuring, and/or de-structuring, the lives of ‘ordinary’ Europe’s citizens and residents. Based on several of the book’s chapters, the pieces collected in this volume turn the stories into case studies, reflecting on their treatment and silences in Judah’s book, investigating the structural effects of the presence or absence of law.

Working paper édité par l'European University Institute de Florence, dans la collection "LAW Working Papers".