Contextual Subjects

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.

Acknowledgments1 IntroductionPART ONE: FAMILY LAW 2 Thick Subjects in the Past 3 Contextual Subjects in the Present 4 Contracting and Disputes within Relational Theory PART TWO: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 5 Thin Subjects in the Past 6 Contextualism Emerges 7 Administration and Relational Norms 8 ConclusionNotesWorks CitedCasesLegislationIndex