The MLR Forum Gender and the Analytical Jurisprudential Mind: A Response to Leslie Green Joanne Conaghan The July 2020 issue of the MLR includes a review article of my book, Law and Gender (2013) by Professor Leslie Green. This response offers a robust corrective to Green’s misreading of the book and misrepresentation of its core arguments, highlighting the techniques Green deploys to advance claims about my book which are inaccurate and unsound. Cite as: J Conaghan, ‘Gender and the Analytical Jurisprudential Mind: A Response to Leslie Green’ [2020] MLRForum 006 (available from: http://www.modernlawreview.co.uk/conaghan-green) In a recent Review Article of my book, Law and Gender, [1] Professor Leslie Green [2] laments what he perceives to be my wholesale condemnation of the analytical jurisprudential mind. To describe his piece as a ‘review article’ is somewhat misleading: it is more a protracted engagement with a small section of Chapter 5 in which I discuss and make use of an argument propounded by Green in 2011. [3] Unfortunately, therefore, anyone reading Green’s review is unlikely to learn very much about my book. He does not accurately identify my core research questions or give a proper account of how I answer them. Nor does he make reference to the range of contexts in which I pursue my enquiries: from the case law analysis in Chapter 2, to the evaluation of feminist theories in Chapter 3, to the legal historical exploration in Chapter 4, and eventually, in Chapters 5 and 6, to an engagement with jurisprudential concerns. In the main, Green confines his comments to the handful of pages in Chapter 5 where I consider his argument from 2011. This he uses to make sweeping claims about my views on analytical jurisprudence. Unfortunately, he ignores Chapter 6 entirely where I dwell at length, and broadly approvingly, on the work of the late Neil MacCormick on legal reasoning. Most troublingly perhaps, Green does not refer at all to Chapter 7 where I present my ‘Concluding Thoughts’. This is a pity because, had