Benjamin Schonthal is Professor and the Head of the Religion Programme and Affiliate Professor in Law at the University of Otago, where he also co-directs the Otago Centre for Law and Society (OCLaS). Ben's research examines the intersections of religion, law and politics in late-colonial and contemporary South and Southeast Asia. He has been President of the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions, a visiting fellow at Northwestern University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Bielefeld, Germany and a visiting Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He serves as Associate Editor for South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and Buddhism, Law & Society. He is a board member of the Indian Law Review, the Australian Association of Buddhist Studies and the MF Center for the Advanced Study of Religion in Norway.

Posts by Ben:

• The What, Where and How of Comparative Constitutional Law, after the ‘Southern Turn’