Jeremy Kingsley is a legal scholar and anthropologist. He is a Senior Lecturer (tenure-track) at Swinburne Law School, Melbourne, Australia. As a lawyer who blends anthropology into his scholarship this brings an interdisciplinary academic approach to his work. Jeremy received his LLM and PhD degrees in Law at the University of Melbourne and his BA and LLB from Deakin University. His research focuses primarily upon religious and political authority in Indonesia and how this affects local governance. He is now looking at this notion of authority and the interconnections between Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Jeremy has completed a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as having lectured at Tembusu College, also at NUS. Jeremy has undertaken extensive field research primarily on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok. His work has been published in academic and public affairs journals. Jeremy is currently undertaking a research project tentatively entitled: “Inter-Asian Legalities” at the Swinburne Law School.