Dr Anna Saunders is a Lecturer at the Australian National University Law School. She researches in international law, the history and theory of property, and the political economy of science and technology. Her current work explores transformations of intellectual property and of legal frameworks for scientific and technological cooperation in the context of a climate-changed world. She is a founding member and the inaugural Chair of the Law, Science, and Technology in Society Hub (LSTS Hub) at ANU Law School, and serves as Book Reviews Editor at the Journal of Law and Political Economy and as a member of the governing board of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) (2025–2030).

Anna’s work has been published in the American Journal of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory, and as chapters in edited volumes with leading university presses. In 2024, her work received the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Article Prize. She has been invited to give seminars on her research at Edinburgh Law School, Warwick Law School and Amsterdam Law School, and to teach in the Semaine doctorale intensive at Sciences Po Law School. At ANU, she teaches courses in public international law; land law; international law, science and technology; and international law and climate change. She holds a JD (first class) and MPhil from Melbourne Law School, an LLM from Harvard Law School, where she was a Frank Knox Fellow, and a PhD from University College London. Anna is admitted as an Australian lawyer and an officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria.