ABSTRACT
Images of law and lawyers abound in popular culture. Legal scholarship in popular culture has begun to document and reflect upon the significance of these images. Its agendas and objectives are diverse, ranging from a desire for a legal theory of popular culture to a popular cultural theory of law. This chapter seeks to examine law "from the outside", by way of an engagement with the representations of law in popular culture. Through an analysis of the terms of the gendered and sexualized corporeality of law in popular culture produced in the characterization of the male homosexual lawyer. The chapter also seeks to open up a new domain within the law and popular culture scholarship and to challenge the limits of lesbian, gay, and "queer" legal scholarship. In Victim, it is important to note that the litigator as hero occupies a distinctive position with respect to the traditional site of legal heroics, the courtroom.
