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Professor Patricia Easteal AM, academic, author, advocate and activist, is Emeritus Professor, School of Law and Justice at the University of Canberra. She has published 18 books and over 180 journal articles and book chapters. Her research earned her the title of ACT Australian of the Year in 2010 and an Australian Honour ‘for service to the community, education and the law through promoting awareness and understanding of violence against women, discrimination and access to justice for minority groups’. She was also finalist in the Australian Human Rights awards in 2012. In addition, her work as an educator earned Professor Easteal the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence (2008) and the Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2007). Her consultancy business, Legal Light Bulbs provides online learning modules, face-to-face workshops, keynote addresses and research and writing services.