Paul Babie

Research Interests

Property Law History and Philosophy of Law and Justice Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation Private law and civil obligations Law and religion

Prof Paul Babie

Bonython Chair of Law

School of Law

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD as Principal Supervisor - email supervisor to discuss availability.

P. T. Babie B.A. Calg. LL.B. Alta. LL.M. Melb. D.Phil. Oxon. B.Th.St. Flin. J.C.L. (candidate) S.P.U. M.C.L. (candidate) Ott.

Date Position Institution name
2021 - ongoing Associate Dean of Law (International) Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
2021 - ongoing Bonython Chair in Law The University of Adelaide
2020 - 2021 Associate Dean of Law (Learning & Teaching) Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
2017 - 2019 Associate Dean (International) Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide
2017 - 2019 Associate Dean of Law (International) Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
2015 - ongoing Personal Chair in Law Adelaide Law School
2012 - 2014 Associate Professor and Reader in Law Adelaide Law School
2011 - 2017 Associate Dean (Research) University of Adelaide
2008 - 2011 Senior Lecturer in Law Adelaide Law School
2007 - 2017 Associate Dean of Law (Research) University of Adelaide
1999 - 2007 Lecturer in Law Adelaide Law School
1999 - 1999 Lecturer in Law Balliol College, University of Oxford
1996 - 1999 Lecturer in Law St Catherine's College, University of Oxford
1995 - 1995 Lecturer in Law Melbourne Law School
1994 - 1994 Visiting Fellow in Law Melbourne Law School
1993 - 1994 Associate Howard, Mackie (now BLG (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP))
1992 - 1993 Student-at-Law Howard, Mackie (now BLG (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP))

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2024 Award The Laws of Australia, Editor-in-Chief (The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG) Commendation for Research Excellence as The Laws of Australia Author The Laws of Australia Australia -
2021 Fellowship Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, or, Royal Society of Arts (RSA) United Kingdom -
2021 Teaching Award Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) and Legal Education Associate Deans (LEAD) Network, Australian Legal Education Awards (ALEA), Excellence in Research Supervision (2021) Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) and Legal Education Associate Deans (LEAD) Network Australia -
2017 Fellowship Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law Australian Academy of Law Australia -
2016 Award Executive Dean, Faculty of the Professions Award for Excellence in Research The University of Adelaide - -
2015 Research Award Executive Dean, Faculty of the Professions Award for Excellence in Research The University of Adelaide Australia -
2014 Research Award Executive Dean, Faculty of the Professions Commendation for Excellence in Research The University of Adelaide Australia -
2011 Teaching Award Executive Dean, Faculty of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching The University of Adelaide Australia -
2007 Teaching Award Adelaide Law School Prize for Excellence in Teaching The University of Adelaide Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
French Can read
Ukrainian Can read

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Oxford United Kingdom DPhil (2002)
University of Melbourne Australia LLM (1995)
University of Alberta Canada LLB (1992)
University of Calgary Canada BA (1989)
University of Ottawa Canada MCL (candidate, 2029)
Saint Paul University Canada JCL (candidate, 2029)
Flinders University Australia BThSt (2006)

Date Title Institution name Country
2022 Barrister and Solicitor (Active Non-practising) Court of King's Bench of Alberta, Canada -
1993 Barrister & Solicitor (Active Non-practising) Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Canada -
— Associate Member; Member, Property Law Committee Law Society of South Australia -

Year Citation
2026 Babie, P. (2026). In Neoliberalism, Property Sets the Agenda; Architecture Provides the Tool. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 39(2), 849-856.
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2026 Babie, P. (2026). Property Implications of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. Ohio State law journal, 87, 1-7.
2026 Babie, P. (2026). The Origin Myth of Torrens and Trusts: The Brief and Curious Life of Sections 56 to 60 of the South Australian Real Property Act 1857-58. law & history: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, 12(1), 64-111.
2026 Babie, P. T., Ivanov, M., & Burdon, P. (2026). "A LASTING BOON UPON THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE": REFORMING THE <i>REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886</i> (SA). AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL, 100(4), 260-265.
2026 Babie, P. T. (2026). The Earth is the Lords': A Natural Law Theory of Property. EXPOSITORY TIMES, 138(1), 44.
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2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). Law and Religion in Colonial America: The Dissenting Colonies. By Scott Douglas Gerber. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 289pp. $59.99.. Journal of Church and State, 67(1), csae076-1-csae076-2.
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2025 Babie, P., Burdon, P. D., & Ivanov, M. S. (2025). Modernising the Torrens system in South Australia: Reform challenges and opportunities in the Real Property Act 1886 (SA). Australian Property Law Journal, 32(1), 227-251.
2025 Babie, P. (2025). Justifiable Limitations Upon Freedom of Religion and Belief in Australia's Draft Human Rights Bill: Lessons from the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. The Constitutional Limits of Aid to Students in Faith-Based Schools in The United States and Australia: A Brief Comparative Analysis, April 2025.
2025 Babie, P. (2025). What Climate Change Reveals About Property’s Potential. Journal of Things We Like (Lots), (Jun), 1-2.
2025 Babie, P., & Russo, C. (2025). The Constitutional Limits of Aid to Students in Faith-Based Schools in The United States and Australia: A Brief Comparative Analysis. Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law and Religion, Jun 20.
2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School. Teaching Theology and Religion, 29(1), 2-10.
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2025 Babie, P. (2025). Entrenching indefeasible title pursuant to the Real Property Act 1886 (SA). Australian Property Law Journal, 32(2), 42-58.
2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). Breathing with two lungs – the metaphor revisited, refreshed, renewed. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 27(3), 389-397.
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2025 Babie, P., & Sletvold, R. (2025). In Memoriam: Adrian John Bradbrook FAAL, 1948-2024. Adelaide Law Review, 46(1), 1-20.
2025 Babie, P. (2025). Forum Introduction: Simon Palk. Adelaide Law Review, 46(1), 21-27.
2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). Searching Marx for Property’s Obligations. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 39(1), 417-424.
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2025 Babie, P. (2025). FORUM INTRODUCTION: SIMON PALK AND PROPERTY. Adelaide Law Review, 46(1), 21-27.
2025 Babie, P. (2025). Beautiful Craterfront Property for Sale! A Thought Experiment on the Justifications for Private Property in the Moon. Penn State Law Review, 130(1), 15-36.
2025 Babie, P. (2025). What Indeed Has Rome To Do with Australia?. The Sydney Law Review, 47, 21667-1-21667-7.
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2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). Judicial Federalism and Sub Silentio Amendment of the Real Property Act 1886 (SA): What It Is and Why It Matters, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Uniform Torrens Title Act. Adelaide Law Review, 46(1), 93-111.
2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). JUDICIAL FEDERALISM AND SUB SILENTIO AMENDMENT OF THE REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 (SA). Adelaide Law Review, 46(1), 93-111.
2024 Williams, C., Babie, P., Viven-Wilksch, J., & Stewart, J. (2024). Private Law as Morality: A Critique of Peter M. Gerhart’s Contract Law and Social Morality. Missouri Law Review, 89(2).
2024 Babie, P. (2024). Intellectual property, or, a tale of inequality: Review of Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, D Bellos and A Montagu, W W Norton, 2024, ISBN 9781324073710, 384 pp.. Australian Property Law Journal, 31(3), 221-225.
2024 Babie, P. (2024). The importance of defining the international human
right to private property: Review of Property, Power and Human Rights: Lived Universalism in and through the Margins, L Dehaibi, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, ISBN 9781035313907, 282 pp.. Australian Property Law Journal, 31(3), 217-220.
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2024 Babie, P. (2024). Law on North Terrace Redux. Adelaide Law Review, 45(1), 180-186.
2024 Babie, P. T. (2024). LAW ON NORTH TERRACE REDUX¹ ADELAIDE LAW: A HISTORY OF THE ADELAIDE LAW SCHOOL. Adelaide Law Review, 45(1), 180-186.
2024 Babie, P. T., Parkinson, A., & Sletvold, R. (2024). IN MEMORIAM: ANTHONY PETER (TONY) MOORE, 1945-2023. Adelaide Law Review, 45(2), 191-206.
2024 Plater, D., Babie, P., & Washusen, B. (2024). The Torrens System 166 Years on: SALRI's Timely Review of the Real Property Act. The Bulletin (The Law Society of South Australia), 1-8.
2023 Babie, P., Blacketer, I., & Luu, F. (2023). The Challenges of 21st Century Transboundary Water Management and the Limits of International Water Law. Michigan State Law Review, 2022(3), 611-673.
2023 Babie, P. (2023). Of Crocodiles and Cryptocurrency, Or, Property is a Relationship between Persons in Respect of Things, and Why It Matters. Oxford Property Law Blog, 1-3.
2023 Babie, P. (2023). All Roads Lead to New Rome: The Canonical Origins and Status of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 25(2), 211-236.
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2023 Fay, W., & Babie, P. (2023). "There's a Moment When All Old Things Become New Again": The Canadian Oil and Gas Royalty - A Modern Rent Charge. Fordham International Law Journal, 46(3), 291-338.
2023 Giancaspro, M., & Babie, P. T. (2023). Cryptocurrency, Crypto-Tokens and Crypto-Assets as "Data Objects" A Novel Form of Property. U. of Adelaide Law Research Paper, (2022).
2023 Babie, P. (2023). What Property Makes Us (reviewing Timothy M. Mulvaney and Joseph William Singer, Essential Property, 107 Minn. L Rev. 101 (2022). JOTWELL : The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), Jun 16.
2023 Babie, P. (2023). The Thing and Judicial Methodology in Resolving Novel Property Claims: It Matters When It Matters. Alberta Law Review, 61(1), 69-78.
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2023 Babie, P. (2023). Torrens and trusts: Weight of policy versus protecting the beneficiary. Australian Property Law Journal, 31(1), 28-49.
2023 Babie, P. (2023). Conceptual fission: Understanding common law, equity, and statute. Australian Property Law Journal, 31(1), 66-70.
2023 Babie, P., & Thompson, A. K. (2023). The Current State and Uncertain Future of Academic Freedom in Australia. University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 101(1), 83-114.
2023 Burdon, P., Molloy, S., & Babie, P. (2023). Perceptions of Water Rights and Reforming Water Law in Integrated River Systems: A User-Stakeholder Orientated Research Methodology. Penn State Law Review, 128(2), 152-171.
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2023 Babie, P. (2023). The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris, H B Callaway, Harvard University Press, 2023, ISBN 978-0-674-27934-6, 304 pp.. Australian Property Law Journal, 31(2), 159-163.
2022 Babie, P., & Bhanu, A. (2022). The Form and Formation of Constitutionalism in India. Laws, 11(2), 33-1-33-8.
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2022 Babie, P. (2022). What Happened When DOGS Tasted Lemon: Australian Reflections on the Contemporary Relevance of Chief Justice Burger’s Opinion in Lemon v. Kurtzman. Rutgers Law Record, 49, 155-178.
2022 Babie, P., & Langos, C. (2022). Social Media, Free Speech and Religious Freedom in Australia. Canopy Forum: On the interactions of Law & Religion, August, 1-8.
2022 Bhanu, A., Babie, P., & Stirling, G. -L. (2022). Protecting Religious Speech as Expressive Conduct in the Constitutions of Australia, United States, and India. University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 100(1), 1-47.
2022 Babie, P. (2022). What a theory of property tells us about ourselves. Jurisprudence: an international journal of legal and political thought, 13(4), 613-625.
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2021 Babie, P. (2021). Religious freedom and education in Australian schools. Laws, 10(1), 1-18.
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2021 Babie, P. (2021). The Global Pandemic and Government "COVID-19 Overreach". Canopy Forum.
2021 Babie, P., Gava, J., Orth, J. V., & Bhanu, A. P. (2021). ‘No Amendment? No Problem Judges, “Informal Amendment”, and the Evolution of Constitutional Meaning in the Federal Democracies of Australia, Canada, India, and the United States’. Pepperdine Law Review, 48(2), 341-424.
2021 Babie, P. (2021). Editorial: Climate Change and Ethics. Agathon: A Journal of Ethics and Value in the Modern World, 8, vii-xvi.
2021 Babie, P. (2021). A Matter of Choice. Agathon: A Journal of Ethics and Value in the Modern World, 8, 73-84.
2021 Babie, P., & Russo, C. J. (2021). COVID-19 and Mandatory Vaccinations for School Children: Legal Issues in the United States. International Journal of Education Law & Policy, 16, 241-250.
2021 Babie, P., & Wawryk, A. (2021). Climate change, the rule of law, and market-based schemes to encourage renewable energy use. Michigan State International Law Review, 29(3), 363-411.
2021 Fuentes-Jiménez, M. A., & Babie, P. (2021). The residential tenancy agreement as an exception to the indefeasibility of title. Australian Property Law Journal, 29, 51-73.
2021 Babie, P. T. (2021). Property in the Empirical World. U. of Adelaide Law Research Paper, (2021).
2021 Babie, P. T. (2021). Review of Principles of Property Law.
2021 Babie, P. T., & Nikias, K. (2021). Legislators, judges, and the content of property: Reflections on Hocking v Director-General, National Archives of Australia. Australian Property Law Journal, 28, 195-216.
2021 Babie, P. T. (2021). AUSTRALIAN JURISTS AND CHRISTIANITY. ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW, 42(2), 649-656.
2020 Nikias, K. K., Babie, P., & Leadbeter, P. (2020). Property, Unbundled Water Entitlements, and Anticommons Tragedies: A Cautionary Tale from Australia. Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law, 9(1), 107-144.
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2020 Babie, P. T. (2020). The Ethos of Protection for Freedom of Religion or Belief in Australian Law. University of Western Australia Law Review, 47(1), 64-91.
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2020 Langos, C. A., & Babie, P. (2020). Social Media, Free Speech, and Religious Freedom. Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, 20(3), 239-291.
2020 Babie, P. T., Leadbeter, P., & Nikias, K. (2020). Federalism fails water: A tale of two nations, two states, and two rivers. Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, 35(1), 1-86.
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2020 Babie, P. T., Brown, D., Giancaspro, M. A., & Catterwell, R. (2020). Cryptocurrency and the property question. Oxford Property Law Blog.
2020 Babie, P. T., & Russo, C. J. (2020). COVID-19: Why the Balance Between Freedom of Religion and Public Health Matters. Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law & Religion, (2020).
2020 Babie, P., Brown, D., Catterwell, R., & Giancaspro, M. A. (2020). Cryptocurrency as property: Ruscoe v Cryptopia Ltd (in liq) [2020] NZHC 728. Australian Property Law Journal, 28, 106-122.
2020 Babie, P. T. (2020). When is a road not a 'public road' in South Australia. Australian Property Law Journal, 28(2), 97-105.
2020 Babie, P. T., Brown, D., Catterwell, R., & Giancaspro, M. (2020). Cryptocurrencies as Property: Ruscoe and Moore v Cryptopia Limited (In Liquidation) [2020] NZHC 728. U. of Adelaide Law Research Paper, (2020).
2020 Babie, P. T. (2020). Ancestor Worship, Living Trees, and Free Exercise in the Australian Constitution. Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law and Religion, (2021).
2020 Babie, P. T., & Russo, C. J. (2020). If Beer and Wrestling are "Essential", So Is Easter: COVID-19, Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Public Health in Australia and the United States - Why Rights Matter. New England law review, 55(45).
2020 Babie, P. (2020). Review of Alan M Sinclair & Margaret E McCallum, An Introduction to Real Property Law, 7th ed (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2017). University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 71, 185-189.
2020 Nikias, K., & Babie, P. (2020). Legislators, judges, and the content of property: Reflections on Hocking v Director-General, National Archives of Australia. Australian Property Law Journal, 28, 195-216.
2020 Babie, P., & Burdon, P. (2020). COVID-19 and the Adelaide Law School, Australia. Journal of Security, Intelligence, and Resilience Education, 10(2).
2020 Babie, P. (2020). Ministerial Exceptions, Religious Exemptions, and Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Reciprocal Lessons from America and Australia. Canopy Forum – On the Interactions of Law and Religion.
2020 Babie, P., & Russo, C. J. (2020). Covid-19, Childhood Vaccinations, and Religious Freedom: A Looming Issue. Canopy Forum – On the Interactions of Law and Religion.
2020 Stirling, G. -L., & Babie, P. (2020). Free exercise, the implied freedom of politica communication, and the Australian Constitution. Amity Law Review, 16, 1-17.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Climate Change: An Existential Threat to Corporations.
2019 Babie, P. (2019). Book Review: Agape, Justice and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law?. Journal of Church and State, 315-317.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Private Property in South Australian Torrens land: A review of 2018. Australian Property Law Journal, 27(3), 211-226.
2019 Babie, P. T., Burdon, P., da Rimini, F., Metcalf, C., & Stenseth, G. (2019). The Idea of Property: A Comparative Review of Recent Empirical Research Methods. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 26(2), 401-436.
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2019 Ashok, K., Babie, P. T., & Orth, J. V. (2019). Balancing justice needs and private property in constitutional takings provisions: A comparative assessment of India, Australia, and the United States. Fordham International Law Journal, 42(4), 999-1039.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Our Choice. Alternative Law Journal, 44(2), 171.
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2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Book Review: Property Theory: Legal and Theoretical Perspectives. UNSW Law Journal, 42(7), 1-6.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Publish and Collaborate: An Invitation. Adelaide Law Review, 40(1), 145-154.
2019 Nikias, K. K., & Babie, P. (2019). The Renewal of the Old: Lionel Murphy's Progressive-Relational Conception of Property. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42(3), 1-35.
2019 Babie, P., & Nikias, K. (2019). The renewal of the old: Lionel Murphy’s progressive-relational conception of property. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42(3), 791-824.
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2019 Babie, P. (2019). Book Review: Research Handbook on Law and Religion. Alternative Law Journal, 44(3), 254-255.
2019 Babie, P. (2019). Book Review: Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives. The Law Quarterly Review, 135, 691-693.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law?. JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 61(2), 315-317.
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2019 Babie, P. (2019). Book Review: Principles of Property Law. Australian Property Law Journal, 28, 28-30.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Australia's "Bill of Rights". University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 97(2), 187-220.
2019 Babie, P. T. (2019). Property in Indian Water: A Future Transformed by Climate. Amity Law Review, 15(2021), 1-17.
2019 Babie, P. (2019). RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LAW AND RELIGION. ALTERNATIVE LAW JOURNAL, 44(3), 254-255.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). Parliamentary Prayer and the Establishment of Religion. Law Society of South Australia Bulletin, 40(1), 12-15.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). The Annual Rent Threshold Triggering the Application of The Retail and Commercial Leases Act 1995 (SA). Property Law Review, 7, 146-149.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). Essay: Baseball, Friendship, Law and Property. Property Law Review, 7, 121-126.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). The Concept of Freedom of Religion in the Australian Constitution. A Study in Legislative-Judicial Cooperative Innovation. Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica, 1(1), 259-282.
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2018 Babie, P. T., Burdon, P. D., & da Rimini, F. (2018). The Idea of Property: An Introductory Empirical Assessment. Houston Journal of International Law, 40, 797-843.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). A great exploitation: the true legacy of property-a review essay. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 31(4), 977-992.
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2018 Babie, P. (2018). The “Monkey Selfies”: Reflections on copyright in photographs of animals Naruto v Slater, 888 F.3d 418 (9th Cir. 2018). UC Davis Law Review Online, 52, 103-117.
2018 Babie, P. T. (2018). Baseball, Friendship, Law and Property.
2018 Babie, P. T. (2018). The Annual Rent Threshold Triggering the Application of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act 1995 (SA): Diakou Nominees Pty Ltd v Gouger Street Pty Ltd [2017] SASC 72. Property Law Review, 146.
2018 Babie, P., & Neoh, J. (2018). A STATEMENT ON INCLUSIVE LAW AND RELIGION. ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW, 39(1), 203-206.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). The Human Body and Private Property: Sperm Harvesting. Property Law Review, 7(3), 207-213.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). Review Essay: The Future of Private Property. Sydney Law Review, 40, 433-444.
2018 Babie, P. T. (2018). Book Review: Seeing the Myth in Human Rights. Journal of Religious History, 612-614.
2018 Babie, P. (2018). Seeing the Myth in Human Rights. JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 42(4), 612-614.
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2018 Babie, P. T. (2018). A Great Exploitation: The True Legacy of Property—A Review Essay.
2018 Babie, P. T. (2018). The Future of Private Property. Sydney Law Review, 40(3), 433-444.
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2018 Babie, P. T. (2018). Spontaneously Emerging New Property Forms Reflections on Dharavi. Amity Law Review, 14, 1-26.
2018 Babie, P. T., & Bhanu, A. P. (2018). Freedom of Religion and Belief in India and Australia: An Introductory Comparative Assessment of Two Federal Constitutional Democracies.
2017 Babie, P. (2017). A new narrative: native Hawaiian law. University of Hawaii Law Review, 39, 233-262.
2017 Bennetts, H., Soebarto, V., Oakley, S., & Babie, P. (2017). Feeling safe and comfortable in the urban environment. Journal of Urbanism, 10(4), 401-421.
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2017 Babie, P., Orth, J., & Weng, C. (2017). The Honoré-Waldron Thesis: A Comparison of the Blend of Ideal-Typic Categories of Property in American, Chinese and Australian Land Law. Tulane Law Review, 91(4), 739-788.
2017 Babie, P. (2017). Reflections on Private Property as Ego and War. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 30(4), 563-591.
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2017 Babie, P. T. (2017). Private Property and the Climate Future of Negligence. Expert Guide: Australasia, 26-29.
2017 Babie, P. (2017). Review Essay: Private Property Suffuses Life. Sydney Law Review, 39, 135-146.
2017 Babie, P. (2017). A never-ending story: Torrens Title in South Australian and the 2015-2016 Amendments to the Real Property Act 1886 (SA). Property Law Review, 6(3), 219-223.
2017 Babie, P. (2017). Completing the painting: Legislative innovation and the "Australianness" of Australian real property law. Property Law Review, 6(3), 157-178.
2017 Babie, P. (2017). Climate change is eco-slavery: a climate future of Australian property law. Monash University Law Review, 43(1), 35-75.
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2017 Babie, P. (2017). National Security and the Free Exercise Guarantee of Section 116: Time for a Judicial Interpretive Update. Federal Law Review, 45(3), 351-381.
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2017 Babie, P. (2017). "Politics!"? Of Course! A reflection on Washington v. Trump. Emory Law Journal (Online), 67, 2001-2020.
2017 Babie, P., & Orth, J. (2017). The Troubled Borderlands of Torrens Indefeasibility: Lessons from Australia and the United States. Property Law Review, 7, 33-55.
2017 Babie, P. T., & Stephens, D. (2017). Seeing Further Over the Horizon: A World of Limitless Possibilities. U. of Adelaide Law Research Paper, (2017).
2017 Babie, P. (2017). Private Property Suffuses Life. SYDNEY LAW REVIEW, 39(1), 135-146.
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2017 Babie, P. (2017). Freedom of Religion in Australia: An Introductory Outline. Amity Law Review, 13, 1-15.
2017 Babie, P. T., & Lawson, M. (2017). The Law of Marriage Equality in Australia - The Shortest Distance Between Two Points?. InterfaceTheology, 3/1.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Ukraine's transition from Soviet to Post-Soviet law: property as a lesson in failed regulation. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 3(1), 3-38.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Magna Carta and the Forest Charter: two stories of property. North Carolina Law Review, 94(5), 1432-1474.
2016 Babie, P., & Krieg, L. (2016). Tavitian v City of Playford. Australian Property Law Journal, 25, 111-114.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Is native title a defence to a mortgagee’s right to possession. Property Law Review, 5, 195-197.
2016 Babie, P. T. (2016). Review Essay: Property, Predation, and Protection. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, ISSN 2292-7956 Volume III, (2).
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Anthropogenic climate change: the choice we must make and how religion can help. St Mark's Review, 236, 37-64.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). The Crown and possessory title of Torrens land in South Australia. Property Law Review, 6(1), 46-58.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Property, negligence, and the intergenerational inequity of climate change. Alternative Law Journal, 41(3), 179-182.
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2016 Babie, P. (2016). Regulation and private property: the cautionary tale of Ukraine. Property Law Review, 6(2), 100-116.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). South Australia: the meaning of "Residential Tenancy Agreement" in South Australia: Schaffer v USCA. Property Law Review, 6(2), 144-148.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). South Australia: Is Native Title a Defence to a Mortgagee's Right to Possession?. Property Law Review, 5, 195-197.
2016 Babie, P. T. (2016). Magna Carta and the Forest Charter: Two Stories of Property - What Will You Be Doing in 2017?. North Carolina Law Review, 94.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Three tales of property, or one?. Griffith Law Review, 25(4), 600-616.
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2015 Babie, P. (2015). Religion and constitutionalism: oscillations along a continuum. Journal of Religious History, 39(1), 123-146.
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2015 Babie, P. (2015). Caveats and competing equitable mortgages: Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Psevdos. Property Law Review, 5(1), 74-76.
2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Book Review: Law, Religion, Constitution: Freedom of Religion, Equal Treatment, and the Law Edited by W Cole Durham Jr, Silvio Ferrari, Cristiana Cianitto and Donlu Thayer. Adelaide Law Review, 36(1).
2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Book Review: Freedom of Conscience and Religion by Richard Moon. Adelaide Law Review, 36(1).
2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Inference of an express trust on grounds of commercial necessity: Clarification by High Court. Property Law Review, 5(2), 135-139.
2015 Babie, P. (2015). FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION. ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW, 36(1), 273-277.
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2015 Babie, P. (2015). LAW, RELIGION, CONSTITUTION: FREEDOM OF RELIGION, EQUAL TREATMENT, AND THE LAW. ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW, 36(1), 267-272.
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2014 Babie, P. T. (2014). The durability of title: an appraisal of recent developments in Australian real property law. Property Law Review, 4, 22-30.
2014 Babie, P. (2014). Vendors' statements, the right to cool off and remedies: Le Cornu and Kurda v Place on Brougham Pty Ltd. Property Law Review, 4, 143-145.
2013 Babie, P. (2013). Private property in post-secular law: an introductory foray. University of Queensland Law Journal, 32(2), 237-251.
2013 Babie, P. (2013). Sovereignty as governance: an organising theme for Australian property law. The University of New South Wales Law Journal, 36(3), 1075-1108.
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2013 Babie, P. (2013). Legal Protection of Religious Freedom in Australia [Book review]. Griffith Law Review, 21(3), 805-808.
2013 Babie, P. (2013). Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor (Trans. Jane Marie Todd) 'Secularism and Freedom of Conscience' Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2011. 142 pp.. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 28(2), 282-283.
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2013 Babie, P. (2013). The spatial: A forgotten dimension of property. San Diego Law Review, 50(2), 323-382.
2012 Babie, P. (2012). How property law shapes our landscapes. Monash University Law Review, 38(2), 1-24.
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2012 Babie, P., & Mylius, B. (2012). The future of religious freedom in Australian schools. International Journal of Education Reform, 21(3), 173-191.
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2012 Babie, P. (2012). The Australian Legal Academy and the concept of private property. Interface, 15(1 and 2), 41-58.
2012 Babie, P. (2012). Theology, law, and the Australian legal academy. Religion and Education, 39(2), 172-188.
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2012 Babie, P. (2012). Legal Protection of Religious Freedom in Australia. GRIFFITH LAW REVIEW, 21(3), 805-808.
2011 Babie, P. (2011). The promise of restorative justice: New approaches for criminal justice and beyond. Tokiwa International Victimology Institute Journal, 5(2), 72-74.
2011 Babie, P. (2011). Synthesis or Separation? Church, State and Marriage in Byzantine Law. Journal of Law and Religion, 26(2), 585-594.
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2011 Babie, P. (2011). Choices that Matter: Three Propositions on the Individual, Private Property, and Anthropogenic Climate Change. Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 22, 323-356.
2011 Babie, P. (2011). Religion and Australian socio-legal interaction: A preliminary account of the need for empirical research. The University of New South Wales Law Journal, 34(1), 255-279.
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2010 Babie, P. (2010). Introduction to the special issue: 125 years of legal education in South Australia. Adelaide Law Review, 107-110.
2010 Babie, P. (2010). Private Property: The Solution or the Source of the Problem?. Amsterdam Law Forum, 2(2), 1-5.
2010 Babie, P. (2010). Idea, Sovereignty, Eco-colonialism and the Future: Four reflections on private property and climate change. Griffith Law Review, 19(3), 527-565.
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2010 Babie, P., & Rochow, N. (2010). Feels like déjà vu: an Australian Bill of Rights and religious freedom. Brigham Young University Law Review, 2010(3), 821-857.
2010 Babie, P. (2010). Climate change: Government, private property, and individual action. Sustainable Development Law & Policy, 11(2), 19-21.
2010 Babie, P. T. (2010). Climate Change: Is Private Property the Solution or the Source of the Problem?.
2009 Babie, P. (2009). Christianity and law: an introduction. Adelaide Law Review, 30, 175-184.
2009 Babie, P. (2009). The study of law and religion in Australia : it matters. Adelaide Law Review, 30, 7-10.
2009 Babie, P. (2009). 'God is love': The literography of Leonid Denysenko. Australasian Catholic Record, 86(1), 18-24.
2009 Babie, P. T. (2009). Looking East to the Concept of Property — A Review Essay of Witte and Alexander, Christianity and Law: An Introduction.
2008 Babie, P. (2008). Bioethics : when the challenges of life become too difficult. Australian Theological Book Reviewer, Online, 1-3.
2007 Babie, P. (2007). Theology and Law : Partners or Protagonists? Christine Parker & Gordon Preece (eds). ATF Press pb 125 pp 2005. Australian Theological Book Reviewer.
2007 Babie, P. (2007). Ukrainian Catholics in Australia: Past, Present and Future. Australian Catholic Historical Society. Journal, 28, 33-52.
2007 Babie, P. (2007). Two voices of the morality of private property. Journal of Law and Religion, 23(1), 271-308.
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2007 Babie, P. (2007). Breaking the silence: Law, theology and religion in Australia. Melbourne University Law Review, 31(1), 296-314.
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2006 Babie, P. (2006). The Ukrainian Catholic Church and moral theology: The pastoral writings of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi on private property. Australian Ejournal of Theology, Feb 2006(6), www1-www36.
2006 Oliphant, R., & Babie, P. (2006). Can the gospel of Luke speak to a contemporary understanding of private property? The parable of the rich fool. Colloquium, 38(1), 3-26.
2006 Babie, P. (2006). The Ukrainian Catholic Church and Moral Theology: The Pastoral Writings of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi on Private Property. AUSTRALIAN EJOURNAL OF THEOLOGY, 6(1), 23 pages.
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2005 Babie, P. (2005). The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Australia and the Filioque - A return to eastern Christian tradition. Compass, 39(1), 17-23.
2004 Babie, P., Russo, C., & Dickinson, G. (2004). Supervision of students: An exploratory comparative analysis. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Law & Education, 9(1), 41-70.
2004 Babie, P. (2004). Australia's Ukranian Catholics, Canon Law, and the Eparchial Statutes. Australasian Catholic Record, 81(1), 32-48.
2004 Babie, P. (2004). Private property and the Gospel of Luke. Australian Ejournal of Theology, Aug(3), www 1-www 24.
2003 Babie, P. (2003). Embracing the other: ecclesiology, canon law and Ukrainian Catholics in Australia. Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 17(1-2), 159-184.
2002 Babie, P. (2002). Private property, the environment and Christianity. Pacifica, 15(3), 307-323.
1995 Babie, P. T. (1995). James Smith Indian Band v Saskatchewan: Is Native Title Capable of Supporting a Torrens Caveat?. Melbourne University Law Review, 20, 588-599.

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2026 Babie, P. T., & Giancaspro, M. (Eds.) (2026). Private Law, Digital Assets, and Infrastructure. Springer.
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2024 Babie, P. T., & Sarre, R. (Eds.) (2024). Religion Matters : Volume 2 : Further Explorations of Connectedness (Vol. 2). Springer.
2024 Babie, P. T. (2024). Shadow Property and the Hidden Empire of Ego Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Liberal Property. Springer.
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2024 Babie, P. T., & Sarre, R. (2024). Religion Matters: Further Explorations of Connectedness: Volume 2 (Vol. 2). P. T. Babie, & R. Sarre (Eds.), Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
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2024 Babie, P. T., & Russo, C. J. (2024). Canada: The World Today Series 2024 – 2025, 39th edition.
2023 Babie, P. T., & Russo, C. J. (2023). Canada 2023–2024.
2022 Barker, R., Babie, P., & Foster, N. (Eds.) (2022). Law and Religion in the Commonwealth The Evolution of Case Law. Hart Publishing.
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2022 Barker, R., Babie, P., & Foster, N. (2022). Law and Religion in the Commonwealth The Evolution of Case Law. Bloomsbury Publishing.
2022 Babie, P., Neoh, J., Krumrey-Quinn, J., & Tsang, C. (2022). Religion and Law in Australia. Kluwer Law International.
2022 Babie, P. T., Russo, C. J., & Donlevy, J. K. (2022). CANADA 2022-2023: 37TH EDITION.
2020 Comparative Reflections on the Constitutional Models of India and Australia (2020). .
2020 Babie, P., & Sarre, R. (Eds.) (2020). Religion matters: the contemporary relevance of religion. Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2020 Babie, P., Rochow, N. G., & Scharffs, B. G. (Eds.) (2020). Freedom of Religion or Belief Creating the Constitutional Space for Fundamental Freedoms. Cheltenham, Glos; United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2020 Babie, P. B. T., Rochow, N. G., & Scharffs, B. G. (2020). Freedom of Religion Or Belief Creating the Constitutional Space for Fundamental Freedoms. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2019 Babie, P. T., Neoh, J., Krumrey-Quinn, J., & Tsang, C. (2019). Religion and Law in Australia (2 ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
2019 Babie, P., & Viven-Wilksch, J. (Eds.) (2019). Léon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property A Translation and Global Exploration. Gateway East, Singapore: Springer.
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2018 Babie, P., & Savic, V. -I. (Eds.) (2018). Law, religion and love : seeking ecumenical justice for the other. Routledge.
2018 Babie, P., & Trainor, M. (2018). Neoliberalism and the Biblical Voice Owning and Consuming. New York, USA: Routledge.
2018 Babie, P., Neoh, J., Krumrey-Quinn, J., & Tsang, C. (2018). Australia (2 ed.). Online: Wolters Kluwer.
2016 Stephens, D., & Babie, P. (Eds.) (2016). Imagining law: Essays in conversation with Judith Gardam. Adelaide: Adelaide University Press.
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2015 Babie, P., Neoh, J., Krumrey-Quinn, J., & Tsang, C. (2015). Religion and Law in Australia (1 ed.). Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
2014 Babie, P., & Leadbeter, P. (Eds.) (2014). Law as change: engaging with the life and scholarship of Adrian Bradbrook. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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2012 Babie, P., Edgar, B., & Wilson, D. (Eds.) (2012). Public theology in law and life. Australia: ATF Press.
2012 Babie, P., & Rochow, N. (Eds.) (2012). Freedom of religion under bills of rights. Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
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1997 Babie, P. T. (1997). The implementation and operation of transferable water entitlement systems in Victoria and Alberta. Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

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2026 Babie, P., & Giancaspro, M. (2026). Introduction: The Brave New World of Private Law and Digital Assets. In P. Babie, & M. Giancaspro (Eds.), Private Law, Digital Assets, and Infrastructure (pp. 1-7). Singapore: Springer.
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2025 Babie, P. (2025). A Patristic Reflection on Taxation Justice. In R. F. van Brederode (Ed.), Christian Perspectives on the Role of the State, Justice, and Taxation (pp. 363-383). Springer.
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2025 Babie, P. (2025). Author Rejoinders and Reflections: III P T Babie. In R. Barker, C. Andersen, & M. Rasmi Alumari (Eds.), Comparative Approaches to Law and Religion: Methods and Epistemologies of Comparative Legal Analysis (pp. 406-407). Routledge.
2025 Babie, P. (2025). Response to Matt Watson, ‘A Socio-Legal Explication of the Divergent Legal Approaches to State Funding of Religious Schools in Canada and the United States. In R. Barker, C. Andersen, & M. Rasmi Alumari (Eds.), Comparative Approaches to Law and Religion:Methods and Epistemologies of Comparative Legal Analysis (pp. 143-146). Routledge.
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2025 Babie, P. (2025). American Constitutional Experience and the Interpretation of the Australian Religion Guarantees. In R. Barker, C. Andersen, & M. Rasmi Alumari (Eds.), Comparative Approaches to Law and Religion: Methods and Epistemologies of Comparative Legal Analysis (pp. 147-169). Routledge.
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2025 Babie, P. T. (2025). State aid for Australian non-government religious schools. In State Funding for Teaching about Religion International Perspectives on State Aid for Schools with A Religious Character (pp. 9-24). Routledge.
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2025 Babie, P., & Giancaspro, M. (2025). Private Law Is Both the Question and the Answer: Property, Contract, and Enduring Questions About the Legal Treatment of Digital Assets. In P. Babie, & M. Giancaspro (Eds.), Private Law, Digital Assets, and Infrastructure (pp. 11-25). Singapore: Springer.
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2024 Babie, P. (2024). Law’s Hopefulness?: Liberal Law, Private Property, and Climate Change. In S. Petrilli (Ed.), LA SPERANZA COME SEGNO (Hope as a sign) (Vol. XXXIII, 26, pp. 419-437). Italy: MIMESIS EDIZIONI (Milano – Udine).
2024 Sarre, R., & Babie, P. (2024). Introduction: Bringing Religion to Life. In P. Babie, & R. Sarre (Eds.), Religion Matters Volume 2: Further Explorations of Connectedness (Vol. 2, pp. 1-6). Singapore: Springer.
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2024 Babie, P. T. (2024). Private property and climate change. In C. Bevan (Ed.), Research Handbook on Property, Law and Theory (pp. 494-509). UK and USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
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2024 Babie, P. (2024). Rome in the antipodes: Emphyteusis and the Australian perpetual lease. In J. Sampson, & S. Tofaris (Eds.), Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson: Querella (1 ed., pp. 205-215). Bloomsbury Publishing.
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2023 Babie, P. (2023). Title 28.16 Possession. In A. Moore (Ed.), The Laws of Australia. Thomson Reuters.
2023 Babie, P. (2023). Liberalism, Religious Pluralism, and the Environment. In J. H. Bhuiyan, & C. Zoethout (Eds.), Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism (Vol. 16, pp. 280-305). Brill.
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2022 Babie, P. (2022). COVID-19, Religious Freedom, and Judicial Review in the Federal Democracies of India, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In A. Tomer, V. Arora, & J. N. Aston (Eds.), Comparative Law: Facets, Nuances and Intricacies (1 ed., pp. 114-137). India: Thomson Reuters, Legal India.
2022 Babie, P. (2022). Adelaide Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses v The Commonwealth: Balancing Free Exercise and Public Order. In P. Babie, R. Barker, & N. Foster (Eds.), Law and Religion in the Commonwealth: The Evolution of Case Law (pp. 105-122). Bloomsbury-Hart.
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2021 Babie, P. (2021). Native Title Law. In ThomsonReuters Australia (Ed.), The Laws of Australia.
2021 Babie, P. (2021). Constitutional Law. In ThomsonReuters Australia (Ed.), The Laws of Australia.
2021 Babie, P. T. (2021). Religion and education in Australian government schools. In C. J. Russo (Ed.), Law, Education, and the Place of Religion in Public Schools: International Perspectives (pp. 11-25). Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
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2020 Babie, P. T., & Sarre, R. (2020). Why religion matters, or, does it matter?. In P. Babie, & R. Sarre (Eds.), Religion matters: the contemporary relevance of religion (pp. 1-7). Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2020 Babie, P. T. (2020). Law, religion, and theology: a relationship that matters. In P. Babie, & R. Sarre (Eds.), Religion matters: the contemporary relevance of religion (pp. 231-243). Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2020 Babie, P. T. (2020). A tale of two creations – property and the corporation. In P. Babie, L. Neudorf, A. Tomer, & V. Arora (Eds.), Comparative Reflections on the Constitutional Models of India and Australia. India: Bloomsbury.
2020 Babie, P., Rochow, N., & Scharffs, B. G. (2020). Introduction: Making Space. In P. Babie, N. Rochow, & B. G. Scharffs (Eds.), Freedom of Religion or Belief Creating the Constitutional Space for Fundamental Freedoms (pp. 1-18). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2020 Babie, P. T., Rochow, N., & Scharffs, B. G. (2020). Creating and conserving constitutional space. In P. Babie, N. Rochow, & B. Scharffs (Eds.), Freedom of Religion or Belief: Creating the Constitutional Space for Fundamental Freedoms (pp. 1-18). United States of America: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2019 Babie, P. T., & Viven-Wilksch, J. (2019). Léon Duguit and the Propriété Function Sociale. In P. Babie, & J. Viven-Wilksch (Eds.), Léon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property: A Translation and Global Exploration (pp. 1-34). Singapore: Springer.
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2019 Babie, P. (2019). Torrens System - Indefeasibility and Priorities. In ThomsonReuters Australia (Ed.), The Laws of Australia.
2017 Aroney, N., Harrison, J., & Babie, P. (2017). Religious Freedom under the Victorian Charter of Rights. In M. Groves, & C. Campbell (Eds.), Australian Charters of Rights A Decade On (pp. 120-125). Australia: Federation Press.
2017 Babie, P. T. (2017). Private Property is War. In S. Petrilli (Ed.), Athanor: Pace, pacificazione, pacifismo e i loro linguaggi (Vol. 20, pp. 201-216). Mimesis.
2017 Babie, P. T. (2017). Natural Law in the Orthodox Tradition. In P. babie (Ed.), Christianity and Natural Law An Introduction (pp. 36-57). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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2016 Babie, P. T. (2016). Australian External Territories.
2016 Babie, P. T. (2016). Australia.
2016 Babie, P. (2016). Property, choice and obligation: The Australian law of leases and licences. In H. Esmaeili, & B. Grigg (Eds.), The Boundaries of Australian Property Law (pp. 180-210). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
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2016 Babie, P. (2016). The power of subsidiary interests in land to shape our world: the Australian law of easements. In H. Esmaeili, & B. Grigg (Eds.), The Boundaries of Australian Property Law (pp. 211-236). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
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2016 Babie, P. T., & Krieg, L. (2016). Civil and Political Rights. In G. Dal Pont (Ed.), Halsbury's Laws of Australia (pp. 148002-149155). LexisNexis.
2016 Stephens, D., & Babie, P. (2016). Introduction: seeing further over the horizon - A world of limitless possibilities. In P. Babie, & D. Stephens (Eds.), Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam (pp. 1-10). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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2016 Paternotte, D., Tremblay, M., & Johnson, C. (2016). Introduction. In The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State (pp. 1-12). Routledge.
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2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Religion (Title 365, Update Service 409). In N. Nawab (Ed.), Halsbury's Laws of Australia (pp. 690,001-680,470).
2015 Babie, P., Neoh, J., Krumrey-Quinn, J., & Tsang, C. (2015). International Encyclopedia of Laws – Religion (Australia), Supplement 14. Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
2015 Babie, P. (2015). The place of religion in Australian sociological interaction. In T. Stanley (Ed.), Religion after Secularization in Australia (pp. 91-117). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2015 Babie, P. (2015). Property as monument and memorial. In J. de Ville (Ed.), Memory and meaning: Lourens du Plessis and the haunting of justice (pp. 3-24). Durban, South Africa: LexisNexis.
2015 Babie, P. (2015). General Introduction. In P. Babie, J. Krumrey-Quinn, J. Neoh, & C. Tsang (Eds.), International Enyclopaedia of Laws.
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2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Part I. Legal Framework and Sources. In P. Babie, J. Neoh, J. Krumrey-Quinn, & C. Tsang (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Laws.
2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Part II. Religious Freedom in General. In P. Babie, J. Neoh, J. Krumrey-Quinn, & C. Tsang (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Laws.
2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Part III. Legal Status of Religious Communities. In P. Babie, J. Neoh, J. Krumrey-Quinn, & C. Tsang (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Laws.
2015 Babie, P. T., Neoh, J., & Krumrey-Quinn, J. (2015). Part VII. Chapter 3. Freedom of Expression. In P. Babie, J. Neoh, J. Krumrey-Quinn, & C. Tsang (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Laws.
2015 Babie, P. T. (2015). Part X. Matrimonial and Family Law. In P. Babie, J. Neoh, J. Krumrey-Quinn, & C. Tsang (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Laws.
2014 Babie, P., & Krumrey-Quinn, J. (2014). The protection of religious freedom in Australia: a comparative assessment of autonomy and symbols. In L. Lazarus, C. McCrudden, & N. Bowles (Eds.), Reasoning Rights: Comparative Judicial Engagement (1 ed., pp. 259-278). United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
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2014 Babie, P., & Mylius, B. (2014). The constitution, religious education, and the future of religious freedom in Australian schools. In C. Russo (Ed.), International Perspectives on Education, Religion and Law (pp. 97-110). United States: Taylor & Francis.
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2014 Babie, P. (2014). The Wiley Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect. In P. Babie, & P. Leadbeter (Eds.), Law as Change: Engaging with the Life and Scholarship of Adrian Bradbrook (1 ed., pp. 1-21). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
2014 Babie, P., & Mylius, B. (2014). The constitution, religious education, and the future of religious freedom in australian schools. In International Perspectives on Education Religion and Law (pp. 97-110). Routledge.
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2014 Babie, P. (2014). THE WILY QUADRUPED MEETS A SAUCY INTRUDER: HOW LIFE AND LAW INTERSECT. In P. Babie, & P. Leadbeter (Eds.), LAW AS CHANGE: ENGAGING WITH THE LIFE AND SCHOLARSHIP OF ADRIAN BRADBROOK (pp. 1-+). UNIV ADELAIDE PRESS.
2013 Babie, P. (2013). Australia. In J. Dingemans, C. Yeginsu, T. Cross, & H. Masood (Eds.), The protections for religious rights: law and practice (1 ed., pp. 140-159). United States: Oxford University Press.
2013 Babie, P. (2013). Foreword. In J. Smith, & G. J. Maddern (Eds.), Medical Malpractice, Mistakes and Mishaps: Essays on Medical Litigation, the Mandatory Reporting of Health Professionals and the Limits of Law (Vol. 45, 1 ed., pp. i-v). United Kingdom: Edwin Mellen Press.
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2013 Krieg, L., & Babie, P. (2013). The space for religion in Australian society: An assessment of the impact of Australian anti-discrimination kegislation on religious freedom. In H. Regan (Ed.), Child Sexual Abuse, Society and the Future of the Church (1 ed., pp. 83-115). Australia: ATF Press.
2013 Babie, P., & Mylius, B. (2013). Religious education in Australia. In D. Davis, & E. Miroshnikova (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of religious education (1 ed., pp. 23-31). United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2013 West-Sooby, J. (2013). Introduction. In J. West Sooby (Ed.), Discovery and Empire: The French in the South Seas (1 ed., pp. 1-14). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
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2012 Babie, P., & Rochow, N. (2012). Protecting religious freedom under bills of rights: Australia as microcosm. In P. Babie, & N. Rochow (Eds.), Freedom of Religion under Bills of Rights (1 ed., pp. 1-11). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
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2012 Edgar, B., Babie, P., & Wilson, D. (2012). Introduction: Public theology today. In Public theology in law and life (Vol. 15, pp. vii-xi). Interface, PO Box 504, Hindmarsh SA 5007: Australian Theological Forum.
2011 Babie, P. (2011). Why should I do this? Private property, climate change and Christian sacrifice. In N. Hosen, & R. Mohr (Eds.), Law and religion in public life: the contemporary debate (1 ed., pp. 165-193). United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2011 Babie, P. (2011). How we control the environment and others. In Peter Burdon (Ed.), Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (1 ed., pp. 279-292). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2011 Babie, P., & Brindal, M. (2011). Australian Water Law: Property, The Constitution and an Anticommons Tragedy. In N. Habel, & P. Trudinger (Eds.), Water: A Matter of Life and Death (Vol. 14, pp. 19-34). Interface, PO Box 504, Hindmarsh SA 5007: Australian Theological Forum.
2010 Babie, P. (2010). Afterword - The Surgical Litigation Crisis: Medical Practice and Legal Reform. In The Surgical Litigation Crisis: Medical Practice and Legal Reform (pp. 83-88). United Kingdom: Edwin Mellen Press.
2010 Babie, P. (2010). Climate change and the concept of private property. In Rosemary Lyster (Ed.), In the Wilds of Climate Law (1 ed., pp. 7-36). Australia: Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd.

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2025 Babie, P., Burdon, P., Ivanov, M., & Shrestha, N. (2025). Torrens for the Twenty-First Century: Modernising the Real Property Act 1886 (SA). Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide.
2025 Babie, P., Plater, D., Washusen, B., Villios, S., Brunacci, A., Williams, J., . . . Neumann, M. (2025). ‘A Lasting Boon Upon the Australian People’: A Review of the Role and Operation of the Real Property Act 1886 (20). Adelaide, SA: South Australian Law Reform Institute.

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2002 Babie, P. T. (2002). Crown Land in Australia. (PhD Thesis, University of Oxford).
1995 Babie, P. T. (1995). The Implementation and Operation of a Transferable Water Entitlement System in Alberta: Applying the Victorian Experience to a Similar Socio-legal Setting. (Master's Thesis, The University of Melbourne).

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2016 Aroney, N., Harrison, J., & Babie, P. T. (2016). Religious Freedom Under the Victorian Charter of Rights.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2026 Principal Supervisor Cultural and Religious Relativism vs. Universalism: Reframing Women Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Rabia Hameed
2025 Principal Supervisor The Doctor Dearth: Human Rights, Healthcare Policy and Philosophy, and the Necessity of Social Reform Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Wei Yee Chong
2025 Principal Supervisor Towards the Right to a Safe Environment for Affected Water-users in Bangladesh: Integrating Best Practices in Transboundary Water Governance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Binota Bose Britya
2025 Principal Supervisor The Doctor Dearth: Human Rights, Healthcare Policy and Philosophy, and the Necessity of Social Reform Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Wei Yee Chong
2025 Co-Supervisor Dynamism in Australian Tax Law: An Evaluation of the Capacity of the Law to Address Current and Emerging Societal and Taxpayer Issues Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Michael Croft
2023 Principal Supervisor Property Law Aspects of Digital Assets Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Federico M Pucci
2022 Principal Supervisor Reconceptualising ideas of the ‘secular’ and ‘religion’ in the law, public policy, and political discourse governing Australian education. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Andrew Philip Long
2022 Principal Supervisor Reconceptualising ideas of the secular and religion in the law, public policy, and political discourse governing Australian education. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Andrew Philip Long
2021 Principal Supervisor A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CODE OF PARTICULAR CANONS OF THE SYR MALANKARA CATHOLIC CHURCH: AN EXAMINATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS CONCERNING COLLABORATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Fr Stephen Kulathumkarott
2021 Principal Supervisor A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CODE OF PARTICULAR CANONS OF THE SYR MALANKARA CATHOLIC CHURCH: AN EXAMINATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS CONCERNING COLLABORATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Fr Stephen Kulathumkarott
2020 Principal Supervisor Jurisprudence as a Guide for Occupiers' Standards of Care for Reasonably Foreseeable Security Incidents Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Dan Maxim Levinson
2018 Principal Supervisor How Law Can be Used to Shape Urban Environments That Both Feel Safe and are Safe from Weaponised Vehicles Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Andrew John Raymond Hawking

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Building Bridges: Domestic Violence, Culture, Religion, and the Law Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Mary Manickam
2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Human Dignity and Constitutional Spatial Theory: Towards an Australian Framework for the Resolution of Conflicts in Equality Rights and Religious Liberties Claims Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Prof Neville Grant Rochow
2018 - 2023 Principal Supervisor 'Home" Among The Gumtrees: The Experience of Home Under Australian Real Property Law and in Property Theory Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Samuel Paul Tyrer
2017 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Posthuman Legal Subjectivity in the Anthropocene: Introducing the Cosmic Person Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Rev Jana Norman
2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Towards a New Law School Curriculum in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua Krook
2017 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Rule of Law in the Classroom: Teacher Interpretation and Application of Policy Regarding Teaching Methods in Undergraduate Ideo-Political Subjects in China Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Michael Shaun Patrick Hooper
2016 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Queensland Legislators and a Right to Property as a Human Right: The Functioning of the Concept of Human Dignity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Julie Jane Copley
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Demystifying Critical Legal Studies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr James Stewart
2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Pathways for Conscience Protection in Law: German, American and Australian Perspectives Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Patrick Thomas Quirk
2015 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Legal Professional Privilege: The influence of Jeremy Bentham and John Henry Wigmore on the judicial pronouncement of Lord Taylor of Gosforth in R v Derby Magistrates’ Court; ex parte B. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Olivia Cheryl Grosser-Ljubanovic
2015 - 2022 Principal Supervisor The United States’ Global Campaign Against Foreign Bribery: Bound to Fail Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Matt Lady
2014 - 2024 Co-Supervisor NEGOTIATING WITH NATURE: ON THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN OUR
CURRENT SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN IMPACT ON EARTH
AND THE LAWS AND POLICIES WHICH GOVERN OUR BEHAVIOUR		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Claire Marie Williams
2012 - 2015 Principal Supervisor From Right to Light: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Universal Access to Modern Energy Services Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Manuel Peter Samonte Solis
2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Doping in Sport: An interdisciplinary study of its management and prevention Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Aaron Hermann
2009 - 2011 Principal Supervisor Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and Earth Community Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Prof Peter Burdon
2003 - 2009 Principal Supervisor — Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Joseph Smith

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2007 - ongoing Member Property Committee Law Society of South Australia Australia

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