NUTTY PROFESSORS, MEN IN SUITS AND NEW ENTREPRENEURS - CORPOREALITY SUBJECTIVITY AND CHANGE IN THE LAW-SCHOOL AND LEGAL PRACTICE

This article is an exploration of the relationship between the social production of heterosexual masculinities and the 'making of men' as le gal 'professionals' - as practising lawyers and legal academics. The f ocus is an analysis of the ways in which a range of categories of 'mas culine' subjectivities are presently encoded as heterosexual within th e institutional and organizational contexts of legal academy and legal practice. Theoretically, the article is concerned to explore what ins ights, if any, may be derived from recent scholarship on the relations hip between identity, subjectivity and corporeality when seeking to re -conceptualize what has for some time, and from different perspectives , been identified to be the distinctly masculine cultures of the law s chool and law firm. How, the article asks, is 'masculinity' embedded i n the negotiations and contradictions of routine cultural practices, t he evasions, fantasies and anxieties of 'everyday life' in the legal p rofession? Far from conceptualizing Woman as 'Other' to a masculine (l egal) norm, the article seeks to unpack the nature of this 'norm' via an exploration of the ways in which certain (sexed) subject positions emerge within specific cultural sites and are experienced as encoded ' masculine' phenomena. The article seeks to 'name men as men' in an inv estigation of the relationship between 'doing law' and the 'making' of men's subjectivities.