Associate Professor Paul Babie

Biography/ Background

Associate Professor and Reader*

Adelaide Law School

 

Appointments

Associate Professor and Reader*, 2012

Senior Lecturer, 2008

Lecturer, 1999

Lecturer, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1999

Lecturer, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 1996-1999

Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, 1995

Visiting Fellow, Melbourne Law School, 1994

Associate, Borden, Ladner, Gervais (Canada), 1992-1994

 

University Service

Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of the Professions, 2012-present

Associate Dean (Research) (Acting), Faculty of the Professions, 2011

Associate Dean of Law (Research), 2007-2011, 2012-present

Director, The University of Adelaide Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion (RUSSLR), 2007-present

Founder, The University of Adelaide Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion (RUSSLR), 2007 

 

Teaching

Executive Dean of The University of Adelaide Faculty of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2011

Adelaide Law School Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2007

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* The Australian academic rank of Associate Professor and Reader is equivalent to the American rank of Full Professor (tenured).

Qualifications

DPhil (Oxford, 2002)

LLM (Melbourne, 1995)

LLB (Alberta, 1992)

BThSt (Flinders, 2006)

BA (Calgary, 1989)

Barrister and Solicitor (inactive), Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Canada, and Supreme Court of Canada

Associate Member, Law Society of South Australia

Teaching Interests

Property Law (LLB/MCL)

Property Theory (LLB/MCL)

Law and Religion (LLB/MCL)

Roman Law (LLB/MCL)

Adelaide Law Review (LLB)

Research Interests

Private Law Theory

property theory

comparative private law theory

consequences of globalisation, especially anthropogenic climate change

Legal Theory

Religious Legal Systems

Byzantine and Eastern Catholic canon law

Baseball

Publications

Editorial Boards

Adelaide Law Review, Editor-in-Chief, 2008-present

Journal of Law and Religion, Commissioned Book Reviewer, 2010-present

International Perspectives in Victimology, Editorial Board, 2010-present

Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World, Chair, Editorial Board, 2011-present

Books
Climate Change, Private Property, and the Children of Abraham (Vancouver: UBC Press, fothcoming 2014)

with Neville Rochow (eds), Freedom of Religion Under Bills of Rights (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2012)

Paul Babie, Chris Charles, Dymphna Eszenyi, Robert Foster, and Elizabeth Grant (eds), Reflections: 40 years on from the 1967 Referendum (Adelaide: Kerryne Liddle (Oneforwords), 2007)

Crown Land in Australia (DPhil Thesis, Oxford University, 2002)

The Implementation and Operation of Transferable Water Entitlement Systems in Victoria and Alberta (Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Victoria, 1997)

The Implementation and Operation of a Transferable Water Entitlement System in Alberta: Applying the Victorian Experience to a Similar Socio-legal Setting (LLM Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1995)

Chapters in Books
with Ben Mylius, 'Faith and Australian Schools' in Charles J Russo (ed), Religious Freedom in Education (forthcoming 2012)

with James Krumrey-Quinn, 'Religious Symbols and Autonomy in Australia' in Christopher McCrudden and Liora Lazarus (eds), Adjudicating Human Rights Diversely (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2012)

with Ben Mylius, 'Religious Education in Australian Schools' in Elena Miroshnikova, W Cole Durham, Jr, and Derek H Davis (eds), Religious Education in the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011)

with Neville Rochow, 'Religious Freedom and Bills of Rights: Australia as Microcosm' in Paul Babie and Neville Rochow (eds), Freedom of Religion Under Bills of Rights (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2011)

'Why should I do this? Private property, climate change and Christian sacrifice' in Nadirsyah Hosen and Richard Mohr (eds), Law and Religion in Public Life: The Contemporary Debate (New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2011) 165-194

with Mark Brindall, 'Australian Water Law: Property, the Constitution and an Anticommons Tragedy' in Norman Habel and Peter Trudinger (eds), Water, a Matter of Life and Death (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2011) 19-34

'Afterword' in Joseph W Smith and Guy Maddern, The Surgical Litigation Crisis: Medical Practice and Legal Reform (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) 83-88

'How We Control the Environment and Others, or, the 'Idea' of Private Property in Climate Change and What Religion Can Offer' in Peter Burdon (ed), Wild Law: An Earth Jurisprudence Reader (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2011)

'Climate Change and the Concept of Private Property' in Rosemary Lyster (ed), In the Wilds of Climate Law (Brisbane, Australia: Australian Academic Press, 2010) 7-36; (2010) 7(5) Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism Abstracts http://hq.ssrn.com/Journals/RedirectClick.cfm?url=http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539294&partid=604624&did=63452&eid=85273840; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539294

Articles
'Theology, Law, and the Australian Legal Academy' (2011) 38 Religion and Education forthcoming

with Ben Mylius, 'Faith and Australian Education' (2011) International Journal of Educational Reform forthcoming

'Religion and Australian Socio-Legal Interaction: A Preliminary Account of the Need for Empirical Research' (2011) 34 UNSW Law Journal 255-280

'Climate Change: Government, Private Property and Individual Action' (2011) 11 Sustainable Development Law & Policy: Climate Law Reporter 2010 19-21 and 77-78

'Choices that Matter: Three Propositions on the Individual, Private Property and Anthropogenic Climate Change' (2010) 22 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 223-256

'Expanding the Scope of Restorative Justice: Some Thoughts on Private and Public Law' (2011) 5 International Perspectives in Victimology 72-74

'Idea, Sovereignty, Eco-colonialism, and the Future: Four Reflections on Climate Change and Private Property' (2010) 19 Griffith Law Review 527-566

'Synthesis or Separation? Church, State and Marriage in Byzantine Law' (2011) 26 Journal of Law and Religion 585-594

'125 Years of Legal Education in South Australia' (2010) 31 Adelaide Law Review 107-110

with Neville Rochow, 'Feels Like Déjà vu: Religious Freedom under a Proposed Australian Bill of Rights’ (2010) BYU Law Review, in press, forthcoming

'Private Property: The Solution or the Source of the Problem?' (2010) 2(2) Amsterdam Law Forum 17-22, http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/124/231

'Is Private Property the Solution or Part of the Problem?' (2010) BraveNewClimate http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/02/12/climate-and-property-law/#more-2334

'The Study of Law and Religion in Australia: Why it Matters' (2009) 30 Adelaide Law Review 7-10

'Looking East to the Concept of Property: A Review Essay of Witte and Alexander, Christianity and Law: An Introduction'(2009) 30 Adelaide Law Review 175-184

''God is Love': The Literography of Leonid Denysenko' (2008) 85 Australasian Catholic Record 18-24

'Ukrainian Catholics in Australia: The Past, the Eparchial Statutes and the Future' (2007) 28 Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 33-52

'Property and Life: The Importance of the Spatial Dimension' (Abstract), ALTA Conference: Law and Public Policy: Taming the Unruly Horse?, University of Western Australia, Faculty of Law, 23-26 September 2007

'Two Voices of the Morality of Private Property' (2007) 23 Journal of Law and Religion 101-138; http://www.hamline.edu/law/jlr/upcoming_abstracts.html

'Breaking the Silence: Law, Theology and Religion in Australia' (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 296-314

'Review Essay of Bioethics: When the Challenges of Life Become Too Difficult Gareth Jones. ATF Press pb xiv and 255 pp 2007 ISBN 978 1 920691 79 0' (2007) Australian Theological Book Reviewer http://atbr.atf.org.au/atbr/images/review_bioethics.pdf

'Review Essay of Theology and Law: Partners or Protagonists? Christine Parker & Gordon Preece (eds). ATF Press pb 125 pp 2005 ISSN 1329-6264' (2007) Australian Theological Book Reviewer http://atbr.atf.org.au/atbr/images/review_theology_and_the_law.pdf

with Rachael Oliphant, 'Can the Gospel of Luke Speak to a Contemporary Understanding of Private Property: The Parable of the Rich Man' (2006) 38 Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review 3-26; republished at http://colloquiumjournal.org/current.htm

'The Ukrainian Catholic Church and Moral Theology: The Pastoral Writings of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi on Private Property' (2006) 6 Australian EJournal of Theology http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_6/babie.htm

'Eastern Christianity, The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, and the Filioque' (2005) 39 (1) Compass: A Review of Topical Theology 17-23; republished at (2005) Compass Online, http://compassreview.org/autumn05/6.html

'Private Property and the Gospel of Luke' (2004) 3 Australian EJournal of Theology http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_3/babie.htm

Paul Babie, Charles J Russo and Greg M Dickinson, 'Supervision of Students: An Exploratory Comparative Analysis' (2004) 9 Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 41-70 http://www.anzela.edu.au/ 

'Australia's Ukrainian Catholics, Canon Law and the Eparchial Statutes' (2004) 81 Australasian Catholic Record 32-48

''Embracing the Other': Ecclesiology, Canon Law and Ukrainian Catholics in Australia' (2003) 17 Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Journal 159-184

'Private Property, the Environment and Christianity' (2002) 15 Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 307-323

'James Smith Indian Band v Saskatchewan: Is Native Title Capable of Supporting a Torrens Caveat?' (1995) 20 Melbourne University Law Review 588-599

'Review of the Draft Charter' (July 1995) Administrative Law Section Newsletter, Law Institute of Victoria 11-13

Public Lectures, Conference and Seminar Presentations
refereed or invited
'Freedom of Religion in Australian Public Schools', Plenary Panel, International Religious Liberty Association, South Pacific Conference, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, 22-24 August 2011 (invited)

'Recent Developments in Australian Real Property Law', American Bar Association Real Property, Trust & Estates Annual Symposium 2010, Philadelphia, USA, Plenary Panel Paper, Recent Developments in Real Property Law, 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)

'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 (invited)

'Can Climate Change Alter Private Property?', Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, Faculty Seminar, 29 April 2010 (invited)

'Choice, Relationship, Community: The Concept of Private Property and Religion', Plenary Panel Address, 'Religion, Law and Governance in Southeast Asia Conference', Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29-31 January 2010 (invited)

with Peter D Burdon, 'Religion, the Environment and the Impact of Property', Presentation, World Parliament of Religions, Melbourne, 7 December 2009 (refereed)

'Earth Jurisprudence: The Link Between Private Property and Human Consequences', Address, Wild Law: Australia's First Conference on Earth Jurisprudence, Adelaide, 16-18 October 2009 (invited)

'Ecology and Monotheism', Address, Wild Law: Australia's First Conference on Earth Jurisprudence, Adelaide, 16-18 October 2009 (invited)

with Neville Rochow, SC, 'Feels Like Déjà vu: Religious Freedom and a Proposed National Bill of Rights for Australia', Plenary Address, 16th Annual International Law and religion Symposium ‘Connecting Communities of Discourse: How the Judiciary, Academia, Government and International Institutions Further the Work of Religious Freedom, Brigham Young University, J Reuben Clark School of Law, International Centre for Law and Religion Studies, Provo, Utah, USA, 4-7 October 2009 (invited)

'A Christian Lawyer’s View of a Bill of Rights in Australia', 2009 'Food for Thought' South Australian and Northern Territory Lutheran Church Seminar Series, Adelaide, Australia, 28 June 2009 (invited)

'People, Culture and Religion', 2009 Climate Futures Lecture Series, University of Adelaide Research Institute for Climate change and Sustainability, 6 May 2009 (invited)

'Law and Religion in Australia', Dinner Address, University of Melbourne, Centre for Islamic Law and Society, Australia, 17 November 2008 (invited)

'The Theory of Private Property and its Interaction with Christian Theology', Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, Australia, 2 December 2008 (invited but unable to attend)

'Climate Change, Regulation and a Reassessment of the Meaning of Private Property', at Intersections between global climate change law and policy: Challenging the assumption that climate change is the concern of environmental lawyers only, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, Sydney, 7-8 August 2008 (invited)

'The Theory of Private Property and its Interaction with Christian Theology', Law and Religions Workshop, Legal Intersections Research Centre, Wollongong University, Australia, 4 June 2008 (invited)

'Responsibility for the Environment: The Implications of a Patristic Understanding of Christian Scripture for Private Property', Hermeneutics & the Authority of Scripture, Task of Theology Today VI Conference, Canberra, Australia, 23-26 November 2007

'Eastern Christianity, Relationship and Private Property: St John Chrysostom and the Obligations of Ownership', The Life in Christ, Orientale Lumen: Australasia and Oceania III Conference, Australian Catholic University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 October 2007

'Ukrainian Catholics in Australia: Past, Present, Future', Australian Catholic Historical Society, University of New South Wales, Australia, Annual Lecture, Sydney, New South Wales, 14 October 2007 (invited)

'A Relationship of Love: A Christian Theory of Private Property', Global Neighbours and Faithful Citizens: Theology in the Public Domain, ANZATS/ANZSTS Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 8-12 July 2007

'Making the Link: Climate Change, Private Property and Christianity', joint keynote address with Australian presenter of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth at Making the link: our faith & the environment; How do we respond to the biggest challenge facing humanity? Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 15 June 2007 (invited)

'Christianity, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi and Private Property in Ukraine', 2007 Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto and University of Alberta Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 16 January 2007 (invited)

'A Voice for the Moral Obligations of Private Property in Contemporary Ukrainian Land: The Thought of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi', Contemporary Ukrainian Culture: The European and Global Context, Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 24-26 November 2005

Paul Babie and Rachael Oliphant, 'Can the Gospel of Luke Speak to a Contemporary Understanding of Private Property: The Parable of the Rich Man', The Peril of Christianising Jesus: faith, culture, conflict, ANZATS/ANZSTS Annual Conference, Perth, Australia, 4-8 July 2005

'The Ukrainian Catholic Church and Moral Theology: The Thought of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi on Private Property', accepted for presentation (not delivered), The Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference, London, Ontario, Canada, 29-31 May 2005

'Embracing the Other: Ecclesiology, Canon Law and Ukrainian Catholics in Australia', Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia, Fourth International Conference, 'Ukraine and the Other', Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 7-8 February 2003

'Crown Lands in Australia', accepted for presentation (not delivered), Real Property Teachers' Conference 2001, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 15-17 February 2001

'Australian Crown Lands: A property institution', School of Law, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 24 October 2000

'Australian Crown Lands: A property institution', School of Law, University of Adelaide, Faculty Seminar, Adelaide, Australia, 23 October 2000

'Tort Liability of Construction Contractors', Timber Flooring Association of SA Inc, Adelaide, Australia, 10 May 2000

Seminar and Conference Series Convened
'The Judiciary, the Executive and the Rule of Law Forum', University of Adelaide Law School and the Law Society of South Australia, 17 August 2009, Adelaide, Australia (featuring Sir Anthony Mason, ACE KBE QC, Former Chief Justice, High Court of Australia; Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Supreme Court of Pakistan; Justice Grant Hammond, New Zealand Court of Appeal; Judge J Clifford Wallace, Emeritus Chief Judge, United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Mr Alexander Downer, former Minister for Foreign Affairs; Justice David Bleby, Supreme Court of South Australia; and Justice Chris Kourakis, Supreme Court of South Australia)

'Religion and Cultural Freedom Under an Australian Bill of Rights', University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion, 13-15 August 2009, Canberra, Australia

'Law, Politics, History and Culture in Post-Independence Ukraine', Ukrainian Studies Association Conference, 19-21 February 2009, Adelaide, Australia

'The Relationship of Law and Religion/Theology/Faith in Contemporary Australia Roundtable Workshop' and Launch of the University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion, 13-14 November 2008, University of Adelaide Law School, Australia

'150th Anniversary of Torrens Title: Creation, Establishment, Challenges', 20 June 2008, University of Adelaide Law School, Australia

Law 125 Prestigious Speakers Series, February to December 2008, University of Adelaide Law School, Australia

Torrens Title 150^th Anniversary Symposium, 20 June 2008, University of Adelaide Law School, Australia

Task of Theology Today VI Conference, Canberra, Australia, 23-26 November 2007

'Does Law/Do Lawyers Contribute to the Social Good?', Lunchtime Seminar Series, 2002, University of Adelaide, Law School, Co-convenor with Professor Ngaire Naffine

Grants
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'

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