Jennifer Robinson

Who is Jennifer Robinson?

Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human-rights lawyer. She is Director of Legal Advocacy for the Bertha Foundation in London and an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

Robinson has acted in free speech and freedom of information cases before British and European courts. She is best known for her role as a member of the legal team defending Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. She has also provided legal assistance to activists from West Papua for more than a decade. In a 2012 profile in The Global Mail, journalist Eric Ellis called her "an eloquent activist for the world's downtrodden and disenfranchised".