Associate Professor, Deakin Law School

Ben Saunders is an associate professor at Deakin Law School. He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2017 on the drafting of the Australian Constitution. His research interests include constitutional law and interpretation, freedom of religion, natural law, and the intersection between Christianity and law. Professor Saunders’s publications include a critical modern edition of John Ponet’s A Short Treatise on Political Power [1556] (Davenant Press, 2025) with Theodora J. Saunders; Natural Law: A Guide for the Perplexed (Lexham Press, forthcoming); The Crisis of Civil Law: What the Bible Teaches About Law and What It Means Today (Lexham Press, 2024); and Responsible Government and the Australian Constitution: A Government for a Sovereign People (Hart Publishing, 2023).