Seri Feldman-Gubbay is quick to acknowledge that she never planned to be a lawyer: “I don't really have a grand inspiring story."
She explains, “I was supposed to do medicine, and I missed the signup date for the UMAT exam. So I decided the next best thing would be law, because I liked the TV show Suits.”
She continues, “My plan was to transfer [into medicine] after one semester. And then I really enjoyed my first semester in law and thought, ‘oh, it actually makes a lot of sense for me to continue.’”
It was the fundamentals of law that seized Feldman-Gubbay’s attention. She found studying Foundations of Law, and particularly discussing Marxist and feminist legal theory, stimulating. “I enjoy arguing about ideas, really getting into the nitty gritty – and there’s a lot of that in studying law.”
So Feldman-Gubbay continued her law studies at the University of Technology, Sydney (alongside a creative writing degree), and found herself with a range of appealing pathways.
During her studies, Feldman-Gubbay went on exchange to London. There she volunteered in a community legal centre which provided housing law advice to members of the local community. In this role, she had her first face-to-face client interactions. This experience was formative, showing her that “people’s issues, even if they’re ‘small’, are important.”
Towards the end of her studies, as part of her PLT Feldman-Gubbay had the opportunity to see the law applied in a range of environments.
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