Rich, privileged and powerful men have teams of lawyers at their disposal to suppress allegations and prevent newspaper stories from running. Individual women, frontline services, advocacy groups and journalists find themselves fighting against censorship. The weaponising of the law to silence survivors from speaking about their abuse, and anyone who might report on it, has been described as the ‘perverse twist’ of MeToo. In How Many More Women?Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida examine the laws around the world that silence women, and explore the changes we need to make to ensure that women's freedoms are no longer threatened by the legal system that is supposed to protect them. When defamation cases are brought against journalist or newspapers, the female victim survivors rarely have any agency over how the events are communicated or defended. Also defamation laws in the UK and USA vary with the onus switching between parties. Crucial reading for any person wanting to fight against all forms of gendered abuse.' JESS PHILLIPS, MP In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break open the big judgments, developments and trends that have and continue to silence and disadvantage women

One high profile example of this is a case that Robinson herself was involved in from the beginning– the defamation case that Johnny Depp took against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, and the Sun newspaper in London. The book is written very plainly, with language that’s easy to read, instead of being couched in legalese. If women cannot speak about their abuse - and journalists are fearful of telling their stories - then how can we understand the problem of gender-based violence in our society? And how can we even begin to end it? As the Me Too movement continues and more women are speaking up, how is the law keeping up with this new empowerment?Jennifer Robinson is a human rights lawyer and Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London. Jen has been instructed in domestic and international cases involving media law, public law and international law. She advises media organisations, journalists, whistle-blowers and high-profile individuals on all aspects of media law and reputation management. She has also been instructed in human rights related judicial review cases and has given expert evidence in Parliament and at the United Nations. In the wake of #MeToo, women are increasingly speaking up against gender-based violence. But as they have grown empowered to speak, a new form of systematic silencing has become more evident: the spike in survivors speaking out has been followed by a spike in legal actions against them and the media.

The Sir John Clancy Auditorium is located at UNSW Sydney's Kensington campus, ( highlighted red on this map). The closest accessible drop off point to the Sir John Clancy Auditorium is at Gate 9, High Street. Furthermore, there is a rich irony in 'justice' being personified as a woman; "Lady Justitia". The author's highlight that laws designed to privilege certain demographics can't possibly be as objective as we'd like to convince one another and perhaps the blindfold should become a gag. This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and has spread across countries, industries and social class. This movement has uncovered the global scale of gender discrimination, sexual abuse and exploitation which women and girls face. As the years have passed, the movement has grown - with peaks of activity coinciding around the latest revelation of sexual harassment or abuse in the halls of power and in different industries - a domino effect in society. From Hollywood and #MeToo in 2017, to Iran and #IranMeToo in 2020, to the Women's March 4 Justice in Australia in 2021, women have spoken out about their experiences, sparking mass protests for change.

Jennifer Robinson

Jennifer has acted in key free speech and freedom of information cases for clients such as the New York Times and Bloomberg. She is a member of the legal team for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, having acted for Assange in extradition proceedings, advised WikiLeaks during Cablegate and worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights on United States v Bradley Manning. For more than a decade she has been involved in advocacy related to self-determination and human rights in West Papua. In 2008 the UK Attorney General recognised Jennifer as a National Pro Bono Hero. Jennifer was educated at the Australian National University and the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes scholar. She writes for publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald and Al Jazeera. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.

Sir John Clancy Auditorium is located at UNSW Sydney's Kensington Campus ( highlighted red on this map ). Please note this is a live event only, and will not be available via livestream. We were both so outraged by that. We decided to work together to try to intervene in the case, but the Supreme Court didn’t hear us,” says Robinson. Auslan interpreting services and/or live captioning can be provided for selected talks upon request.In the wake of MeToo, women are increasingly speaking up against gender-based violence. But as they have grown empowered to speak, a new form of systematic silencing has become more evident: the spike in survivors speaking out has been followed by a spike in legal actions against them and the media.

These words of Marilyn Frye from her book The Politics of Reality instantly came to mind and lingered as I read How Many More Women by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida. At large, the book serves as a clear demonstration of how easily individuals can overlook systemic issues when they encounter them within a single case, and highlights the alarming tendency for people to repeatedly fall for the same overused, unoriginal textbook manipulative tactics when they continue to form their opinions solely based on circumstantial facts, spontaneous acquisition of knowledge, and unquestioned internalised biases; an approach that isolates the case from its critical systemic context, which also plays a pivotal role in perpetuating these patterns. That, along with the absence of essential knowledge base about the relevant social, legal and medical factors at play, especially when it comes to topics around which society is knee-deep in myths and misconceptions, like Coercive Control, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault—the core subject matters of the authors’ work—prevent individuals from grasping the full magnitude of the issue or developing the right perspective needed to recognise these cases as part of a broader pattern, leaving their perception vulnerable to being manipulated, and themselves to being complicit in facilitating the weaponisation of our collective ignorance of trauma and abuse dynamics to impose further harm upon victims. And anyone who’s been on TikTok or other social media platforms since that US court case will understand the intense villainization that Heard underwent after losing the second case. One incredibly powerful phrase expressed in the book is the need to “free her speech”, meaning that women need to be able to speak about their experiences of gender-based violence in public platforms and their lived experiences need to be better reflected in the law.Immigration status can be weaponised and fear of deportation/loss of child custody is a key barrier to abuse reporting for migrants. From two internationally acclaimed lawyers comes a masterful and urgent exploration of the legal response to the MeToo movement in Australia and around the world. At this point in their careers, Yoshida works as a barrister– qualified in the UK and Ireland– and at the Centre for Reproductive Rights, while Robinson is an Australian barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London. Robinson practises out of London on cases internationally and has worked on some high-profile cases such as representing Amber Heard in her UK trial. Robinson also works with women journalists and frontline organisations in reporting women’s rights stories. A clear-eyed and damning indictment of the criminal justice system.... the writing is engaging and gripping.' IRISH TIMES Robinson represented Heard and said: “We worked together and with the newspapers, to prepare the defence, and a judge ruled in 2020 that he found it to be true that Depp had violently assaulted her on 12 separate occasions.