Kim Rubenstein FAAL FASSA (/ˈruːbənstiːn/ ROO-bən-steen;[1] born 1965)[2] is an Australian legal scholar, lawyer and political candidate.

[4] Rubenstein won the 2013 Edna Ryan award for Leadership for "leading feminist changes in the public sphere"[5] and is a gender equity advocate.

She was involved in Netzer Olami as a teenager and spent a year in Israel after graduating high school, attending a youth leadership course in Jerusalem and living on kibbutzim.

[16] In 2011 she was appointed the inaugural Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute, a role she held for two years in addition to her Directorship of the Centre for International and Public Law.

Labor incumbent Katy Gallagher and independent David Pocock were elected as the ACT's two senators.

[25] In January 2022 the Australian Electoral Commission approved Rubenstein's application to form the political party called Kim for Canberra.