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\\jciprod01\productn\N\NVJ\13-2\NVJ206.txt unknown Seq: 1 16-MAY-13 14:02 RETHINKING MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY LEGAL PROFESSION : THE EXAMPLE OF FATHERHOOD, TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS MASCULINITIES, AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN LARGE LAW FIRMS Richard Collier* I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, Legal Studies has seen the emergence of a “new wave” of scholarship seeking to explore and conceptualize more precisely what it means to speak of “men” as a gender category in relation to law. This work has sought, variously, to unpack the “Man” of law, to ask law’s “Man Question”1 and to challenge what has been termed the “hegemony of men” within and across law’s diverse institutions and practices.2 Law, as an academic subject, has historically had a rather different relationship to the study of men and mas- culinities than many other disciplines, not least perhaps sociology and criminol- ogy.3 An exploration of the interconnections between law and masculinities itself remains marginal to mainstream legal scholarship. Even at international conferences and symposia concerned with law, gender, and sexuality, it is rare * Professor of Law and Social Theory, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University UK. 1 See, e.g. , Nancy E. Dowd, Nancy Levit Ann C. McGinley, Feminist Legal Theory Meets Masculinities Theory , in MASCULINITIES AND THE LAW : A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH 25, 38 (Frank Rudy Cooper Ann C. McGinley eds., 2012); see also NANCY E. DOWD, THE MAN QUESTION : MALE SUBORDINATION AND PRIVILEGE 1 (2010); MASCULINI- TIES AND FEMINISMS : CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES (Martha Fineman M.O. Thomson eds., forthcoming 2013); RICHARD COLLIER, M