Kim Rubenstein#Kim for Canberra

{{Infobox academic

| name = Kim Rubenstein

| image = Kim Rubenstein.png

| alt =

| caption = Rubenstein in 2023

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}

| occupation = Academic director

| party = Independent

| otherparty = Kim for Canberra

| education = Mount Scopus College
Presbyterian Ladies' College

| alma_mater = University of Melbourne (BA/LLB)
Harvard University (LLM)

| discipline = Legal scholar

| sub_discipline = Citizenship law

| workplaces = University of Canberra
Australian National University

| main_interests = citizenship, gender, oral history

| notable_works = Australian Citizenship Law (2nd ed.) (2017)

}}

Kim Rubenstein {{post-nominals|unlinked=FAAL FASSA}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|uː|b|ə|n|s|t|iː|n}} {{respell|ROO|bən|steen}};{{Cite tweet|last=Rubenstein|first=Kim|user=Rubenstein_Kim1|number=1428256014592184328|title=Kim For Canberra. Independent 'candidate' for the Senate at the next federal election. Join the party now at: http://kim4canberra.com.au #Kim4CBR #auspol|access-date=1 October 2022}} born 1965){{cite web |title=Rubenstein, Kim - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0613b.htm |website=womenaustralia.info/leaders |accessdate=9 August 2018 |language=en-gb}} is an Australian legal scholar, lawyer and political candidate. She is a professor at the University of Canberra.

She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law{{Cite web|url=https://academyoflaw.org.au/Sys/PublicProfile/35294791/4141331|title=Australian Academy of Law - Fellows|website=academyoflaw.org.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}} and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9TfAAI|title=Academy Fellow, Professor Kim Rubenstein|website=socialsciences.org.au|language=en-gb|access-date=2020-09-05}} Rubenstein won the 2013 Edna Ryan award for Leadership for "leading feminist changes in the public sphere"{{Cite web|url=http://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/news/congratulations-kim-rubenstein-2013-edna-award-recipient|title=Congratulations Kim Rubenstein - 2013 Edna Award recipient!|website=genderinstitute.anu.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}} and is a gender equity advocate. In 2020 she became the inaugural Co-Director, Academic of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra and a Professor in the University's Faculty of Business, Government and Law.{{Cite web|url=https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/kim-rubenstein|title=University of Canberra - Profile - Kim Rubenstein|website=researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.5050foundation.edu.au/who/co/|title=50/50 by 2030 Foundation - Who|website=5050foundation.edu.au/|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}}

Rubenstein is one of Australia’s leading experts on citizenship, having written the major text, Australian Citizenship Law, acting as a consultant to government including being appointed a member of the Independent Committee that reviewed the Australian citizenship test in 2008 and appearing as legal counsel in citizenship matters before the Administrative Review Tribunal, Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.policyforum.net/authors/kim-rubenstein/|title=Asia & The Pacific Policy Society - Kim Rubenstein|website=policyforum.net/|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/man-born-in-pre-independence-png-recognised-as-australian-after-federal-court-battle-with-immigration-minister|title=Man born in pre-independence PNG recognised as Australian after Federal Court battle with immigration minister|website=sbs.com.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-06}} She comments on citizenship and gender matters in print, radio and TV media.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/kim-rubenstein/10641378|title=Q+A - Kim Rubenstein|website=abc.net.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-06}}

At the 2022 Australian federal election, she was an independent candidate in the Australian Capital Territory for the Australian Senate,{{Cite web |title=Kim For Canberra |url=https://www.kim4canberra.com.au/ |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=Kim For Canberra |language=en}} but was not elected.{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=Nick |title=Kim Rubenstein looks back on her bid for the purple |url=https://canberraweekly.com.au/kim-rubenstein-looks-back-on-her-bid-for-the-purple/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |work=Canberra Weekly |date=2022-06-01}}

Early life and education

Rubenstein was born in Melbourne in 1965, the older of daughters of Leigh and Susan Rubenstein. She attended Mount Scopus College and Presbyterian Ladies' College, becoming school captain of the latter. She was involved in Netzer Olami as a teenager and spent a year in Israel after graduating high school, attending a youth leadership course in Jerusalem and living on kibbutzim.

Rubenstein studied arts and law at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1989. She was president of the Melbourne University Jewish Students' Society and joint editor of the Melbourne University Law Review, also representing the university in national mooting competitions. She subsequently worked as a solicitor at Corrs from 1989 to 1991. In 1991–1992 Rubenstein undertook an LLM at Harvard University with the support of the Sir Robert Menzies Scholarship,{{Cite web|url=https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n1664/pdf/book.pdf#page=4|title=R.G. Menzies Scholarships to Harvard 1968-2010|website=press.anu.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-06}} a Fulbright award,{{Cite web|url=https://www.fulbright.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2005NOVEMBER.pdf#page=7|title=The Fulbrighter Australia|website=fulbright.org.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-06}} and a Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Trust award.

Career

Rubenstein spent 13 years (1993–2006) teaching at the University of Melbourne{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-rubenstein-8303a568/|title=LinkedIn - Profile - Kim Rubenstein|website=linkedin.com|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}} in constitutional and administrative law, migration law and citizenship law, promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, before moving to the Australian National University to take up a professorship in 2006. During her tenure at the Australian National University Rubenstein taught citizenship law and administrative law, and from 2006 to 2015 was Director of the Centre for International and Public Law in the ANU College of Law.{{Cite web|url=https://www.anu.edu.au/news/for-journalists/professor-kim-rubenstein|title=ANU Newsroom - Professor Kim Rubenstein|website=anu.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}} In 2011 she was appointed the inaugural Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute, a role she held for two years in addition to her Directorship of the Centre for International and Public Law.{{Cite web|url=http://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/page/management-committee|title=Gender Institute Management Committee Former Management Committee Members - Kim Rubenstein|website=genderinstitute.anu.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-10-20}} In 2012 she was appointed an ANU Public Policy Fellow.{{Cite news|url=https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/1144/scholarship-public-debate-and-public-policy-anu-public-policy-fellows|title=Scholarship, public debate and public policy: ANU Public Policy Fellows|last=Engagement|first=Crawford|date=2013-05-06|language=en}} Rubenstein became an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University in 2020 after her move to the University of Canberra to take up the position of Co-Director, Academic of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation.

= International appointments =

Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv Law School in 2017 and 2018 teaching comparative citizenship law course.{{Cite web|url=https://en-law.tau.ac.il/Previous_Visiting_Faculty|title=The Buchmann Faculty of Law Tel Aviv University - Previous Visiting Faculty|website=en-law.tau.ac.il/tau_law_faculty|language=en|access-date=2020-09-06}}
Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, October 2018 to January 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://law.anu.edu.au/people/kim-rubenstein/|title=ANU College of Law - Professor Kim Rubenstein FAAL, FASSA|website=law.anu.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-09-05}}

Political career

Rubenstein was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1997 Australian Constitutional Convention election, running alongside five candidates (including Eve Mahlab and Fay Marles) under the banner of "The Women's Ticket – An Equal Say". Their group polled 2.4 percent of first-preference votes in Victoria.{{cite web|url=https://www.aec.gov.au/elections/constitutional_convention/files/report.pdf|title=1997 Constitutional Convention Report and Statistics|date=2 February 1998|website=Australian Electoral Commission|page=96}}

On 17 August 2021 Rubenstein announced her intention to run as an independent senate candidate for the Australian Capital Territory{{Cite web|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7387788/now-is-the-time-look-out-major-parties-its-kim-for-canberra|title=Canberra constitutional expert Kim Rubenstein to run as an independent senate candidate|website=canberratimes.com.au|language=en|access-date=2021-09-02}} in the 2022 Australian federal election and established the Kim for Canberra party.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kim4canberra.com.au/media_release_professor_kim_rubenstein_announces_election_bid_for_an_act_senate_seat_at_the_next_federal_election_17th_august_202|title=Media Release: Professor Kim Rubenstein announces election bid for an ACT senate seat at the next Federal election|website=kim4canberra.com.au|language=en|access-date=2021-09-02}} Her candidacy was unsuccessful. Labor incumbent Katy Gallagher and independent David Pocock were elected as the ACT's two senators.{{Cite web|title=First preferences by Senate group: Australian Capital Territory|url=https://results.aec.gov.au/27966/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-27966-ACT.htm|website=AEC Tally Room|publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|accessdate=30 May 2022}}

Rubenstein is a supporter of the Better Together party, who intend to run two candidates as a single "job-sharing" senator.{{Cite news |last=Smee |first=Ben |last2=Cox |first2=Lisa |date=2024-04-21 |title=Double or nothing: Australia’s first ‘job-sharing’ political candidates raise constitutional questions |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/21/double-or-nothing-australias-first-job-sharing-political-candidates-raise-constitutional-questions |access-date=2024-12-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

= Kim for Canberra =

{{Infobox political party

| name = Kim for Canberra

| country = Australia

| abbreviation = KCBR

| colorcode = #78267D

| logo = Kim for Canberra logo.svg

| founder =

| leader = Kim Rubenstein

| secretary =

| foundation = 1 October 2021

| registered = 18 January 2022

| dissolved =

| headquarters =

| ideology = Progressivism{{cite web|url=https://www.themandarin.com.au/189631-election-2022-whats-going-on-in-canberras-senate-race/|title=Election 2022: What's going on in Canberra's senate race?|website=The Mandarin|last1=Johnson|first1=Chris|date=May 18, 2022|accessdate=June 6, 2022}}

| website = https://www.kimrubenstein.com.au/kim-for-canberra

| colours = {{colorbox|#78267D|border=silver}} Dark Magenta

}}

In January 2022 the Australian Electoral Commission approved Rubenstein's application to form the political party called Kim for Canberra.{{cite web|url=https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registration_Decisions/2022/registration-approved-kim-for-canberra.pdf|title=Registration of a political party Kim for Canberra|work=Australian Electoral Commission|date=18 January 2022}} The party received 4.43 percent of primary votes, representing 0.1328 of a Senate quota, in the 2022 federal election.{{cite web |title=First preferences by Senate group |url=https://results.aec.gov.au/27966/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-27966-ACT.htm |website=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=5 December 2022 |language=en-AU}}

The party remains registered as of April 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/|title=Register of political parties|publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|date=26 February 2024|access-date=8 April 2024}}

Prizes, awards and honours

Fulbright 1991 Australian Postgraduate Scholar.
Sir Robert Menzies Scholarship to Harvard, 1991–1992.
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Trust award.
Fulbright 2002 Senior Scholar.
In 2008, Rubenstein presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture on the topic From Suffrage to Citizenship: the creation of a Republic of Equals.{{Cite web|url=https://law.anu.edu.au/sites/all/files/cipl/rubenstein_kim_dymphna_clark_lecture_2008.pdf|title=From Suffrage to Citizenship: A Republic of Equals|date=2008-03-29|website=law.anu.edu.au|access-date=2019-01-09}}
In 2012, she won a Westpac '100 Women of Influence' Australian Financial Review award for her work in public policy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.afrwomenofinfluence.com.au/search/keyword/Rubenstein/alumni_year/2012/alumni_category/public-policy/|title=Financial Review Women of Influence - Prof. Kim Rubenstein|website=afrwomenofinfluence.com.au|access-date=2020-09-06}}
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia(FASSA) in 2018 in the discipline of Law, with specialisations in citizenship, nationality, oral history, archives and law, gender and the Constitution.
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL).
In 2024, Rubenstein was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal, awarded by the Council of Law Deans (CALD), the peak body for Australian Law Schools.{{Cite web |last="Emma"] ["Larouche" |date=2024-09-19 |title=UC celebrates researcher’s Lifetime Achievement Medal, honours Law School excellence with student awards |url=https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/media/newsroom/2024/september/uc-honours-researchers-lifetime-achievement-medal,-celebrates-law-school-excellence-with-student-awards#:~:text=In%20July,%20Professor%20Rubenstein%20was,body%20for%20Australian%20Law%20Schools |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=www.canberra.edu.au |language=en-AU}}

Publications

Rubenstein has over 100 publications on a wide range of issues surrounding law, citizenship and gender. Some of her most prominent works include:

= Citizenship =

{{cite book | last1=Rubenstein | first1=Kim |

title=Australian Citizenship Law | date=2017 | edition=2nd | publisher=Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited | isbn=9780455236292 }}

= Gender and public law =

{{cite journal | last1=Cass | first1=Deborah | last2=Rubenstein | first2=Kim |

title=Representation/s of Women: Towards a Feminist Analysis of the Australian Constitutional System | date=1995 | journal=Adelaide Law Review | pages=3–48 | url=http://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/AdelLawRw/1995/2.html |access-date=2020-09-06 }}

= Oral history and women lawyers =

{{cite journal | last1=Rubenstein | first1=Kim |

title='Alive in the Telling': Trailblazing Women Lawyers' Lives, Lived with Law | date=2016 | journal=Law Text Culture | volume=20 | pages=66–92 | url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol20/iss1/5 |access-date=2020-09-06 }}

= As editor =

Rubenstein co-edited a Cambridge University Press 5 volume series Connecting International Law with Public Law.{{Cite web | url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/connecting-international-law-with-public-law/E9FBFADCE072BB821F0AABFF2F90036C|title=Connecting International Law with Public Law|website=cambridge.org|access-date=2020-09-06}}

Research grants

Rubenstein has been a Chief Investigator on several Australian Research Council grants:

LP100200596 – Small mercies, big futures: enhancing law, policy and practice in the selection, protection and settlement of refugee children and youth{{Cite web|url=https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP100200596|title=ARC Data Portal LP100200596 - The University of Sydney|website=dataportal.arc.gov.au|access-date=2020-09-06}}
LP120200367 – The Trailblazing Women and the Law Project{{Cite web|url=https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP120200367|title=ARC Data Portal LP120200367 - The Australian National University|website=dataportal.arc.gov.au|access-date=2020-09-06}}
DP130101954 – The court as archive: rethinking the institutional role of federal superior courts of record{{Cite web|url=https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP130101954|title=ARC Data Portal DP130101954 - The Australian National University|website=dataportal.arc.gov.au|access-date=2020-09-06}}

Personal life

Kim Rubenstein married Garry Sturgess in 1997 and they have two children.{{Cite news |date=1997-09-12 |title=Family Notices |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/261936133 |access-date=2024-12-04 |work=Australian Jewish News}}{{Cite web |last=Strahorn |first=Belinda |date=2021-11-02 |title=Kim's for Canberra, but will Canberra be for Kim? |url=https://citynews.com.au/2021/kims-for-canberra-but-will-canberra-be-for-kim/ |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=Canberra CityNews |language=en-AU}}

References

External links

ANU College of Law, [https://law.anu.edu.au/people/kim-rubenstein Professor Kim Rubenstein FAAL]
University of Canberra [https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/kim-rubenstein Kim Rubenstein]
50/50 by 2030 Foundation [https://www.5050foundation.edu.au/who/co/ Kim Rubenstein & Trish Bergin - Co-Directors]
[https://www.kim4canberra.com.au Kim For Canberra]
{{Twitter|id=Rubenstein_Kim1}}

Category:Living people

Category:1965 births

Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University

Category:University of Melbourne alumni

Category:Harvard Law School alumni

Category:Australian legal scholars

Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Category:Jewish Australian academics

Category:Academic staff of the University of Canberra

Category:Australian feminists

Category:People educated at Mount Scopus Memorial College

Category:Australian people of Jewish descent