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This event is free and open to the public.
For our February Scholars’ Library session, Jennifer Robinson (Australia-at-Large & Balliol 2006) will discuss her book Silenced Women: Why The Law Fails Women and How to Fight Back, previously published as How Many More Women? In conversation with another Rhodes Scholar, amongst other topics, Jennifer will talk about censorship against women, the #MeToo movement, and how we might begin to understand the problems of gender-based violence in our society.
In Silenced Women: Why The Law Fails Women and How to Fight Back internationally-acclaimed human rights lawyers, Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida, examine the broken systems and explore the changes needed in order to ensure that women's freedom, including their freedom of speech, is no longer threatened by the laws that are supposed to protect them.
You can obtain a copy of Silenced Women: Why The Law Fails Women and How to Fight Back here.
Jennifer Robinson (Australia-at-Large & Balliol 2006) is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers with a broad practice across media law, public law, international law and extradition. Prior to joining chambers, Jen Robinson was a solicitor in the media and international team at Finers Stephens Innocent LLP, acting in key freedom of speech and freedom of information cases on behalf of media organisations, journalists and human rights organisations. She advised on a wide range of media law issues, including defamation, privacy, contempt, freedom of information, national security and reporting restrictions, and intervened regularly on behalf of the media in strategic cases before UN bodies, the European Court of Human Rights and the English courts.
Alongside legal practice, Jennifer Robinson has taught at the University of Sydney on the social justice clinical program. She also created the Bertha Justice Initiative, a global program and network to support emerging lawyers into public interest law, providing support and advice to lawyers conducting strategic public law and human rights litigation.
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Part of the Lifelong Fellowship portfolio, The Scholars’ Library is a monthly book talk series, where Rhodes alumni can come together to present, discover and debate their literary works. If you’re interested in getting involved, please reach out to Georgie Thurston at georgie.thurston@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk