How do transnational lawyers valorize their expertise in a political and economic crisis? This article argues that knowing how transnational lawyers valorize their expertise is critical to understanding how transnational law evolves and affects society, especially when existing legal frameworks prove to be inadequate and novel practices must pave new paths. Using the acute phase of the Eurozone crisis between 2010 and 2012 as an empirical case, I examine how European Union (EU) legal agents constructed a framework that accommodated the uncertainty of governing a crisis while also mediating the contentious politics between EU Member States. The analysis shows that as intergovernmental bargaining dominates Eurozone crisis governance, EU legal advisors intervene to reconcile these bargains with the EU legal order using novel practices that simultaneously valorize their legal expertise. These practices in effect engender a high degree of interdependence and interconnection between the EU legal order and several intergovernmental arrangements—especially the European Stability Mechanism—leading to the creation of a unique form of EU governance: semi-intergovernmentalism. This article contributes to debates on legal globalization by empirically examining how transnational legal agents valorize their expertise through strategies directed at defending their autonomy while protecting the normative coherence of their transnational legal order: the EU.

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治理悬崖上的法律策略：欧盟主权债务危机中的跨国律师（2010-2012）

跨国律师如何在政治和经济危机中发挥其专业知识的价值？本文认为，了解跨国律师如何发挥其专业知识对于理解跨国法如何演变和影响社会至关重要，特别是当现有法律框架被证明是不够的并且新颖的实践必须开辟新的道路时。我以 2010 年至 2012 年欧元区危机的严重阶段为实证案例，研究了欧盟 (EU) 法律代理人如何构建一个框架，以适应治理危机的不确定性，同时调解欧盟成员国之间的政治争议。分析表明，由于政府间讨价还价主导着欧元区危机治理，欧盟法律顾问利用新颖的做法进行干预，使这些讨价还价与欧盟法律秩序相协调，同时也发挥了其法律专业知识的价值。这些做法实际上在欧盟法律秩序和一些政府间安排（特别是欧洲稳定机制）之间产生了高度的相互依存和相互联系，从而导致了一种独特的欧盟治理形式的创建：半政府间主义。本文通过实证研究跨国法律代理人如何通过旨在捍卫其自治权同时保护其跨国法律秩序（欧盟）的规范一致性的策略来评估其专业知识，从而为法律全球化的辩论做出贡献。