In Contextual Subjects, Robert Leckey argues that the legal subject, at least in family law and administrative law, is a contextual rather than an atomised or abstracted subject. This is a unique assertion and Leckey is undoubtedly successful in defending it throughout the book. He goes further, though, to interrogate the applicability of relational theory to these areas of law, an important issue when it comes to legal scholarship and practice. This is a consistently coherent and enjoyable work that is sure to generate academic debate.' -Alison Diduck, Faculty of Laws, University College London