Anthony Sanders is a lawyer and legal scholar. A dual U.S.-U.K citizen, today he resides in Minnesota in the United States. There, he serves as the Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement at the Institute for Justice. In that role he educates the public about the proper role of judges in enforcing constitutional limits on the size and scope of government through various means, including live events, books, articles, and podcasts. One area of Anthony’s expertise is on the history of state constitutions and using them to protect individual rights. He is the author of Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters (University of Michigan Press 2023). The book surveys the adoption and interpretation of the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution and “Baby Ninths” in state constitutions, from the early days of the American republic through today.

Anthony is also the author of numerous scholarly articles on state constitutional law, legal history, unenumerated rights, judicial review, economic liberty, property rights, international law, and other subjects. His work has appeared in publications such as the Iowa Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, American University Law Review, Judicature, and Rutgers Law Review. He has published opinion pieces in leading newspapers across the United States and has been a contributor to various journals including The Unpopulist, The Bulwark, Discourse Magazine, and Arc Digital. Further, he frequently speaks to various audiences on the above matters and others, including judicial engagement, free speech, civil forfeiture, and the continuing importance of Magna Carta. Additionally, he hosts the weekly Short Circuit podcast which often records live in front of law student audiences. Anthony has litigated several cases concerning state constitutional protections in various state courts, as well as in federal courts on matters such as economic liberty, free speech, administrative law, and fines and fees abuse.

In addition to his work on American constitutionalism and constitutional history, Anthony is preparing a book on English legal history that investigates an intersection of estate law and social networks in the legal industry in Victorian London. Among other sources, the book draws upon Court of Chancery archives and correspondence between lawyers working in the late Victorian period. He is currently readying the book for publication.

Anthony served as a law clerk to Justice W. William Leaphart on the Montana Supreme Court and worked for several years in private practice in Chicago where he was an active member of the Chicago Bar Association and chaired its Civil Rights Committee. Anthony received his law degree cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2004, where he served as an articles submission editor for the Minnesota Law Review. He now serves as an Adjunct Professor (2025-26) at the law school where he teaches a seminar on economic liberties. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to the HWA, he is a member of the Federalist Society, the Selden Society, the American Society for Legal History, and the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society. Anthony grew up on the islands of Vashon in Washington State and Alderney in the British Channel Islands.