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The University of Western Australia Law School presents a unique opportunity for members of the public to hear from globally renowned scholar and advocate for women Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon.

Catharine A. MacKinnon is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. The universities she has taught at include Yale, Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Professor MacKinnon has been at the global forefront of sex equality legal advocacy, having helped develop the legal definitions of sexual harassment in America and in Canada, as well as being influential globally.

Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic under the Alien Tort Act, the first recognition of rape as an act of genocide.

Professor MacKinnon practices law, consults nationally and internationally on legislation, litigation and activism, and works regularly with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), and ERA Coalition. Extensively published in many languages, Professor MacKinnon is among the most widely-cited legal scholars in the English language and the most widely-cited woman.

The lecture is co-sponsored by John Toohey Chambers and coincides with intensive course taught by Professor MacKinnon in Sex Equality. The lecture entitled ‘Sex Equality in Global Perspective' will take place Monday, 16 February, from 6.30pm at the University of Western Australia's Social Science Lecture Theatre. Entry is free however registration is essential. For more information or to register contact [email protected] .