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Peter Fitzpatrick, "Relational Power and the Limits of Law", in Law and Power, ed. Tuori, Bankowski and Uusitalo (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 1997), 85-97: Theories of relational power claim to resolve the divide between law as autonomous and law as dependent - dependent on, say, society. The relation between law and society then becomes one of mutual influence. Yet, with relational theory, there is nothing to stop these entities disappearing in the relation. This chapter seeks to refine relational theory by showing that the `autonomy' of the entities should not be seen as given beforehand. `Autonomy' is, rather, created and sustained in the relation.

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