Benjamin L. Berger is a therapist in training at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, a Full Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He also holds a status-only appointment as a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and is a research guest at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. He holds a JSD and LLM from Yale University, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar, earned his LLB from the University of Victoria, and obtained his BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Alberta. His primary areas of research specialization are law and religion, legal and social theory, criminal and constitutional law, and the law of evidence. He has published 8 books and authored over 50 articles and 20 book chapters in leading national, international, and interdisciplinary journals. His most recent co-edited volume is Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies (University of Toronto Press, 2025).