The Women Lawyers Association of the ACT is proud to announce its IWD event for 2025

This year, the event will be hosted by MinterEllison and we are thrilled to invite our members and the wider legal community to an evening of canapes, drinks and networking with our Keynote speaker, Professor Kim Rubenstein as she reflects on this year’s United Nations theme: March Forward For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment. 

This year’s event comes at a time when politically and publicly there is increased attention around equality, what it means and its place in society and the workforce.  Please join us to celebrate IWD 2025 as we #MarchForward for a gender equal future – now is not the time to take a step back.

Professor Kim Rubenstein

Lawyer, academic, author and distinguished human rights advocate, Prof Kim Rubenstein is a champion of equal opportunity and active citizenship. Throughout her career she has researched and advocated for gender equality in leadership roles, government and the law.

Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra.  A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Harvard University, she is Australia’s leading expert on citizenship, both around its formal legal status and in law’s intersection with broader normative notions of citizenship as membership and participation.  This has led to her scholarship around gender and public law, which includes her legal work and her oral history work around women lawyers’ contributions in the public sphere.  She was the Director of the Centre for International and Public law at the ANU from 2006-2015 and the Inaugural Convener of the ANU Gender Institute from 2011-2012 and Co Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra 2020-2022.  She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and in 2024 she was awarded the Council of Australian Law Dean’s Lifetime Achievement Medal, in recognition of her significant and impactful contributions to legal research in Australia.

For further information about Professor Kim Rubenstein, her life, career and advocacy please visit here.

The event is proudly sponsored by MinterEllison. Our event is open for members and non-members. Please do encourage your colleagues, friends and contacts in the ACT legal community to come along.

DATE:

6 March 2025

TIME:

5.30 pm – arrival and registration

5.45 pm – event commences

LOCATION:

MinterEllison, Level 10

1 Constitution Place

COST:

Members: $10

Non-members: $30

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