Centre for Asian Legal Studies Lecture with Benjamin Schonthal

Professor Benjamin Schonthal is the head of the Religion Programme at Otago, and Affiliate Professor in the Law School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation received the international 2013 Law & Society Association Dissertation Award. 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 visiting Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.