Paul Babie

Professor Paul Babie

Bonython Chair in Law

Adelaide Law School

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

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


Research Interests

  • Private Law Theory
    • property theory
    • comparative private law theory
    • consequences of globalisation, especially finance and anthropogenic climate change
  • Legal Theory
    • liberalism
  • Religious Legal Systems
    • Byzantine law
    • Eastern Catholic canon law
  • Baseball
    • keeping the book
  • Appointments

    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))
  • Awards and Achievements

    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    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 Competencies

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

    Date Institution name Country Title
    University of Oxford United Kingdom DPhil (2002)
    University of Melbourne Australia LLM (1995)
    University of Alberta Canada LLB (1992)
    Flinders University Australia BThSt (2006)
    University of Calgary Canada BA (Sociology and Political Science) (1989)
  • Certifications

    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 -

Grants

  • Law Foundation of South Australia Grant 2022-2024, $30,000 for 'Modernising the Real Property Act 1886 (SA)'
  • University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions and Adelaide Law School, Combined Cat 1 and Momentum Fund Grants 2013-2015, $20,000 for 'Psychology of Property' Pilot and ARC DP Projects
  • University of Adelaide, Interdisciplinary Research Fund 2013-2014, $20,000 for ‘Crime Prevention through Environmental Design in South Australia (Veronica Soebarto, Paul Babie, Jennifer Bonham and Susan Oakley)
  • University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions and Adelaide Law School, Overseas Conference Scheme Grant 2010, $4,750 to present ‘Current Developments in Australian Real Property Law’, American Bar Association Real Property, Trust & Estates Annual Symposium 2010, Philadelphia, USA, 8 May 2010 (invited); ‘Can Climate Change Alter Private Property?’, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Property and Natural Resources Law Institute, Norway, Natural Resources and Property Workshop, 5 May 2010 (invited); and ‘Three Reflections on Climate Change and Private Property: ‘Idea’, ‘Sovereignty’, and ‘Eco-colonialism’’, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Norway, Faculty Seminar, 4 May 2010
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small Research Grant 2008, $2,500 to hold Law and Religion Roundtable Workshop to be published in the Adelaide Law Review 
  • University of Adelaide, Faculty of Professions, Matching Seed Funding Grant 2007, $4,500 seed funding to match Law School Small Research Grants for the purposes of establishing and making an ARC Grant Application in relation to the Faulty of Professions Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small Research Grant 2007, $2,500 seed funding ($1000 grant and 40 hours of research assistance) for the purposes of making an Australian Research Council Grant application to establish the University of Adelaide, Faculty of Professions Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion 
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small Research Grant 2007, $1,550 seed funding for the purposes of making an Australian Research Council Grant application to establish the University of Adelaide, Faculty of Professions Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion 
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small Research Grant 2007, $2000 for 'Choices of Faith: how private property and the Abrahamic religions can work together for the good of the environment' 
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small Research Grant 2006, $2000 for 'Choices of Faith: how private property and the Abrahamic religions can work together for the good of the environment' 
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small URG Grant 2000, $2000 for 'Homelessness in Darwin' 
  • University of Adelaide, Law School, Small URG Grant 1999, $2000 for 'Homelessness in Darwin'

Teaching Interests

  • Property Law (LLB/MCL)
  • Property Theory (LLB/MCL)
  • Law and Religion (LLB/MCL)
  • Roman Law (LLB/MCL)
  • Adelaide Law Review (LLB)
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Co-Supervisor What are the Causes Precluding India’s Compliance with the Due Diligence Obligation to the Women’s Convention? Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Shritha Kapisthalam Vasudevan
    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
    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
    2014 Co-Supervisor Environmental Law: Ocean/Climate Science Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Claire Marie Williams
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    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 APrf 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 James Gilchrist 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
    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 Global Warming and Climate Change: The Legal, Public and Ecological Health Consequences Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Joseph Smith
  • Position: Bonython Chair in Law
  • Phone: 83135521
  • Email: paul.babie@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134344
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ligertwood, floor 3
  • Org Unit: Adelaide Law School

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