ABSTRACT
My paper is not, initially at least, concerned with engaging with theory per se; rather, it is concerned with an exploration of the idea of theory and its use by feminists in law schools. I want to address a broader audience than those who feel comfortable, and conversant, with current theoretical developments. Whilst many of these developments reflect the ease with which an increasing number of academic lawyers engage with theory, we are in danger of reproducing a division, which is familiar in all law schools, between the theorists and ‘the rest of us’. To a great extent, this will always be the case, but there is a general issue for critical lawyers in relation to trying to militate against a division between work on theory and work on law, and a specific issue for feminists, who, I would argue, cannot, for political reasons, refuse an engagement with law and must, therefore, strive to relate theory with law.
