I am Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law at Bond University. My research explores the relationship between law and ethics. 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.

My recent books include Australian Constitutional Law: Principles in Movement (Oxford University Press, 2022); Mediation Ethics: From Theory to Practice, co-authored with Rachael Field (Edward Elgar, 2020); and Natural Law and the Nature of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019). I co-edit the Journal of Legal Philosophy with Raff Donelson and Hillary Nye.

I am Director of Research at Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy, an Australia-wide initiative working to shape community responses to sexual violence. I am also involved in a public advocacy campaign with author and activist Bri Lee to reform the mistake of fact excuse in Queensland rape law.

Recent Publications

Jonathan Crowe, ‘“Picnic, Lightning”: The Normative Role of Imagination in Legal Inquiry’ (2022) 13 Jurisprudence 267

Jonathan Crowe, Australian Constitutional Law: Principles in Movement (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Jonathan Crowe, ‘“It Makes No Difference What We Do”: Climate Change and the Ethics of Collective Action’ (2021) 40 University of Queensland Law Journal 477

Jonathan Crowe, ‘The Idea of Small Justice’ (2021) 34 Ratio Juris 224

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Direito Natural: Versões Fraca e Forte’ in Marcelo Pichioli da Silveira, Frederico Bolano and Marcos Paulo Fernandes de Araujo (eds), Direito Natural Contemporâneo: A Renascença do Jusnaturalismo no Brasil e no Mundo (Editora Thoth, 2021)

Dani Larkin and Jonathan Crowe, ‘Judgment: Roach v Electoral Commissioner (2007) 233 CLR 162’ in Nicole Watson and Heather Douglas (eds), Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision-Making (Routledge, 2021) 249

Jonathan Crowe and Dani Larkin, ‘Commentary: Roach v Electoral Commissioner (2007) 233 CLR 162’ in Nicole Watson and Heather Douglas (eds), Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision-Making (Routledge, 2021) 245

Barbora Jedličková and Jonathan Crowe, ‘Exclusionary Conduct in Competition Law: A Consequence-Sensitive Deontological Account’ (2021) 12 Jurisprudence 123

Rachael Burgin, Bri Lee and Jonathan Crowe, ‘There’s A Push for a New “Negligent Rape” Offence—This Would Create a Dangerous Hierarchy of Sexual Violence’, The Conversation (3 June 2021)

Jonathan Crowe, ‘Anarchy and Law’ in Gary Chartier and Chad Van Schoelandt (eds), Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought (Routledge, 2021) 281