Speaker details

IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025

2 Nov - 8 Nov 2025

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

Speaker information

Isla Tobin

Biography

Isla is a Project Lawyer with the IBA's Legal Policy and Research Unit. Isla is an Australian qualified lawyer and responsible for managing the LPRU's involvement in the IBA's 'Raising the Bar: Women in Law' project, which commenced in 2021. Before joining the IBA, Isla worked as a lawyer for the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, advising on international trade and humanitarian law. Prior to that role Isla spent several years working as a lawyer for a major Australian firm in litigation, primarily focusing on federal public and administrative law. Isla's professional areas of interest include the intersection between gender and the law, wellbeing in the legal profession and access to justice.

Session

Shifting ground: women in law and the global outlook

Tuesday 4 November (1615 - 1730)

Room 718 A, Level 700, MTCC

Co-Moderator

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