Dr Benjamen Franklen Gussen is an Australian scholar of constitutional and international law, specialising in subsidiarity, constitutional economics, and the governance of cities. He is the author of New Holland: Sovereignty’s Shadows Over the Commonwealth of Australia and the First Nations’ Legal Trek, Volumes I and II (2024), Axial Shift: City-Subsidiarity and the World System in the 21st Century (2019), Sharing Cities (2020), and Ranking Economic Performance and Efficiency in the Global Market (2018).
His body of work advances a distinctive account of constitutional design grounded in scale, post-federalism, and economic organisation, with a particular focus on the constitutional status of cities and the restructuring of political authority in response to population density, urbanisation, and globalisation.
