Abstract
This article will focus on exploring gender and sexuality within the law school. Largely silent from Twiningโs โgrand tourโ, these two areas are now key parts of the law school landscape, having become firmly established as key elements of law school discourse and legal scholarship in the years since Blackstoneโs Tower was published. The Blackstoneโs Tower of Twiningโs imagination was, Twining suggested, โholding up a mirror to a familiar worldโ, and it was a world that made only passing reference to gender and no reference to sexuality. Feminism is mentioned twice in 244 pages, whilst queerโstill emergent within legal scholarship in 1994โis not referenced at all. A once radical and vital text can perhaps appear antiquated to todayโs readers. Yet, this should not be regarded as a criticism of the text but rather a reflection of how the law school and legal scholarship has transformed since 1994. Whether in the number of gender and/or sexuality and law courses that now permeate through the UK law school, or the extraordinary growth first of feminist scholarship and more recently queer scholarship, the law school has been profoundly impacted by socio-legal shifts in gender and sexuality research. This is scholarship that does not merely serve as โanotherโ theory or an addendum to jurisprudence, for these theories have offered the ability to reshape the very architecture of the law school and to re-imagine Blackstoneโs Tower for what it is and what it can be. This article seeks to explore that journey and offer a glimpse of future possibilities.
 Keywords: legal education; gender; sexuality; queer; feminism; gay; pedagogy; LGBTQ; teaching.
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