Career
Throughout her education, Robinson has worked on volunteer projects involving the accountability of multinational corporations for human rights abuses, with a particular interest in the Freeport mine in West Papua.
Whilst at the University of Oxford, she worked part time for Geoffrey Robertson. In 2008, she became Robertson's Instructing Solicitor. She led a project for the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights.
From 2009, she worked at the London law firm of Finers Stephens Innocent LLP. She became the legal adviser to prominent activist Julian Assange in October 2010.
In 2011, she became the Legal Director for the Bertha Foundation in London, with the task of creating and developing a global human rights and public interest law program.
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