Anna Saunders lives on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. She researches and teaches in international law, the history and theory of property, and the political economy of science and technology. She has been a Lecturer at ANU Law School since 2024 (ongoing position, equivalent to Assistant Professor).

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 holds a doctorate from University College London and law degrees from Melbourne and Harvard, and is admitted as an Australian lawyer and an officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

She serves on the editorial boards of the London Review of International Law and the Journal of Law and Political Economy, and the governing board of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property.

At ANU, she is a founding member and the inaugural chair (in 2026) of the Law, Science, Technology & Society Hub, and a member of the Centre for International and Public Law and the Capitalism Studies Network.