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Sakari Hänninen, "Power as Relation" in Law and Power, ed. Tuori, Bankowski and Uusitalo (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 1997), 31-49: In this article, power is depicted as a social relation connecting capacities, actions and consequences. Law is seen as a process of translating direct conflicts and disputes into juridically regulated debates and a process of finding solutions as interpretations to problems represented in these debates. This article examines how power is implicit in law by drawing attention to powers of translation, powers of representation and powers of interpretation. In this way, law's capacity to translate disputes is seen to structure privileges and opportunities, the capacity to represent a juridically translated dispute inscribes positions of subjects and the capacity to decide on articulated cases conditions aptitudes for action. In these three dimension of power, the topical questions addressed include the interfield competition between professional agencies, the medial technologies patterning legal practices and the discursive management of truth. Sakari Hänninen is Professor in Political Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O.Box 35, 40351 Jyväskyl, Finland, e-mail: SAKARIH@dodo.jyu.fi

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