Keith Thompson

Professor Keith Thompson serves as Professor of Law at The University of Notre Dame Australia's Sydney Campus School of Law, specializing in Constitutional Law, Evidence Law, Legal History, and Law and Religion with particular expertise in religious freedom and confession privilege.

Education:

• LLB (Hons), University of Auckland
• M Jur, University of Auckland
• PhD, Murdoch University
• Dip Export, IMD (Hons)
• ACIArb (London)
• Notary Public qualification

Research Focus: His scholarship centers on Religious Confession Privilege, Jury Vetting, and Theosis (deification), examining historical and contemporary intersections of law and religion. Current editorial projects include Current Issues in Constitutional Law and Law and Love, with frequent analysis of Book of Mormon legal narratives and religious freedom frameworks across Australia, the US, and Singapore.

Scholarly Trends: Recent publications reveal sustained emphasis on religious freedom in educational contexts, constitutional challenges to religious practices, and historical foundations of legal principles. A distinctive thread connects Latter-day Saint theology with legal analysis, particularly regarding confession privilege and religious identity preservation in institutional settings.

Academic Leadership: Professor Thompson has supervised 3 PhD completions, 2 LLM (research) completions, and 38 undergraduate honors/directed research projects. He secured approximately $400,000 in research funding for SEIROS, an economic think tank he founded, demonstrating commitment to both theoretical and applied legal scholarship.

Community Integration: Beyond academia, he serves as Managing Director of SEIROS and National Public Communications Director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with decades of church leadership service complementing his legal advocacy in religious freedom submissions to parliamentary committees.