Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida

Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida on How Many More Women?

We are very excited to welcome human rights barristers Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida to St Andrews to celebrate the publication of How Many More Women?

How Many More Women? is a powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems as two internationally-acclaimed human rights lawyers expose the way in which the law is used to silence women and show how we can fight back.

We are in a crucial moment: women are breaking through the cultural reticence around gender-based violence. But just as survivors have begun to feel empowered to speak out, a new form of systematic silencing has made itself more evident: rich and powerful men are using teams of lawyers to suppress allegations and prevent newspaper stories from running. Individual women, advocacy groups and journalists find themselves fighting against censorship. The law is being wielded to reinforce the status quo of silence that existed before #MeToo.

Jennifer Robinson has represented survivors, journalists, media organisations, advocacy and frontline services organisations on free speech and media law issues. Her clients have included the BBC, the New York Times, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and WikiLeaks. She has advised high-profile women who have spoken out about their experience of gender-based violence, including Rose McGowan and Amber Heard, and assisted journalists to break #MeToo stories.

Dr Keina Yoshida has represented victims and survivors of abuse in different legal proceedings, including in judicial reviews and in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Keina is also an academic at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE and sits on the editorial board of the journal Feminist Legal Studies.