In this episode of the Women in Suits Podcast, lawyers Anjali Nadaradjane and Rachel Zeng chat politics, democracy, women in leadership and the constitution with Professor Rosalind Dixon.

Ros is Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney’s Faculty of Law, and director of the UNSW Pathways to Politics for Women Program for Women. Ros earned her BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales, and was an associate to the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC, before attending Harvard Law School, where she obtained an LLM and SJD. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, constitutional democracy, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

“Do lawyers make good politicians? Yes, but so do dentists and doctors and teachers and police…Good politicians don’t come in one shape or form. They are people who represent the community, and they have to be able to connect with the community, they have to be able to advocate for the community, and they have to be able to understand what the needs and priorities of the community are.”

– Prof. Ros Dixon