(...) She is a Senior Associate at the University of Melbourne in the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) and a partner in the Asian Law Centre (ALC).

She is also on the Advisory Board of the Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO). She has held a variety of international positions, including at the University of Malaya and the Centre for Socio-legal Studies at Oxford University.

In her research, she specializes in the field of Southeast Asian law at the interface of law, politics, economy and society - with a special focus on Islam.

Kerstin Steiner has already published extensively on these topics and has also prepared them for media coverage.