Research Catalog

Title

Contextual subjects : family, state and relational theory / Robert Leckey.

Author

Leckey, Robert.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

x, 355 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Law and legal discourse both presuppose and produce legal subjects. Views on the nature of the legal subject will constantly shift, therefore, with changes in the law. Contextual Subjects argues that a new view of the legal subject has indeed emerged and that it is now embedded in the social context and relationships. This claim is developed through a contrast of Canadian family law and administrative law as it was in the mid-twentieth century and as it is today." "Contextual Subjects is the most thorough and sustained application of relational theory to legal examples to appear to date. It is unique in Canadian legal scholarship for the way it pairs family law and administrative law, and within legal scholarship in English for its integration of common law and civil law."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Law > Canada > Philosophy
• Domestic relations > Canada
• Administrative law > Canada
• Contextualism (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-330) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Family law -- 2. Thick subjects in the past -- 3. Contextual subjects in the present -- 4. Contracting and disputes within relational theory -- Pt. 2. Administrative law -- 5. Thin subjects in the past -- 6. Contextualism emerges -- 7. Administration and relational norms -- 8. Conclusion

ISBN

• 9780802097491 (acid-free paper)
• 0802097499 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2008272826

OCLC

172094905

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library