"Law subtly operates on the assumption that a ‘normal’ legal subject has characteristics associated with white, middle class heterosexual men ..."
Nicola Lacey is Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳). She was awarded a CBE for services to law, justice and gender politics in the New Year's Honours list. From 1998 to 2010 she held a Chair in Criminal Law and Legal Theory, also at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford; a Fellow of the British Academy; and a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.
Here she writes about the subtle ways in which the law is gendered.