I am Research Professor of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland. My research spans the fields of legal, moral and political philosophy, with a focus on the natural law tradition. I have also published work on various fields of public law, particularly constitutional law and criminal law.

I am known for developing a dynamic conception of natural law that emphasises its connections with social norms. More broadly, I am interested in the ways in which ethical norms and relations are embodied in social practices and how these practices, in turn, provide the normative basis for legal and social institutions.

I am a founding director of Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy, an Australia-wide organisation working to shape responses to sexual violence. I co-edit the Journal of Legal Philosophy.

Recent Publications

Jonathan Crowe, Constance Youngwon Lee and Joshua Neoh (eds), Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School (Routledge, 2026)

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Eternal, Natural, Human, Divine: A Theological Perspective on the Types of Law’ in Jonathan Crowe, Constance Youngwon Lee and Joshua Neoh (eds), Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School (Routledge, 2026) 55

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Intuition as a Source of Legal Knowledge’ in Luca Siliquini-Cinelli and Joshua Neoh (eds), Research Handbook on Epistemologies of Law (Edward Elgar, 2025) 160

Jonathan Crowe and Rachael Field, ‘Do We Need a New Paradigm of Family Mediation?’ (2025) 34(2) Australian Family Lawyer 66

Jonathan Crowe, ‘The Point of Legal Philosophy’ in Harry Hobbs and Jeremy Patrick (eds), Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law (Federation Press, 2025) 32

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Natural Law and Authoritarianism’ in Martha Egan, Richard Nate and Marko Trajkovic (eds), Perspectives on Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism from Literature, Philosophy, Law and History (Königshausen and Neumann, 2025) 25

乔纳森·克劳 [Jonathan Crowe],《自然法与法律的本质》[Natural Law and the Nature of Law] (夏子羿(译) [Xia Ziyi trans], Commercial Press/Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Pseudolaw, Folk Law and Natural Law: How to Tell the Difference’ in Harry Hobbs, Steven Young and Joe McIntyre (eds), Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens (Hart, 2025) 23

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Injustice and the Moral Obligation to Obey the Law’ in Coel Kirkby, Wojciech Sadurski and Kevin Walton (eds), Law, Politics and Responding to Injustice (Routledge, 2025) 161

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Contemporary Natural Law Theory: Finnis and Beyond’ (2024) 5(1) University of Southern Queensland Law Society Law Review 5