Melissa Crouch is a professor at UNSW, a leading law school in Australia for studies of law and society, as well as a sociolegal scholar of comparative constitutional law and law and religion. She currently holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.

Professor Crouch obtained her undergraduate and doctoral degrees in law from the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Law School, where she developed her research interests in law & society, law & religion, ethnography, comparative constitutional law, and Asian studies. She has held editorial positions on many international journals, including Law & Social Inquiry, Asian Journal of Law & Society, Ulul Alab: Journal of Islamic Law Studies and Research, and Al-Hukama: The Indonesian Journal of Islamic Family Law. Her most recent book, The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutional Legacies in Myanmar, was released in 2025 through Oxford University Press.