Dr Paul Babie

Biography/ Background

Paul Babie is Associate Dean of Law (Research), Adelaide Law School; Founder and Director of the University of Adelaide Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion (RUSSLR); and Honorary Visiting Scholar, Flinders University Schools of Law and Theology.  RUSSLR is the first research centre or institution of its kind in Australia, devoted to the sustained and focussed study of the relationship between society, law and religion/theology.  Please see www.adelaide.edu.au/lawandreligion/

Paul holds a BA in sociology and politics from the University of Calgary, a BThSt from Flinders University, a LLB from the University of Alberta, a LLM from the University of Melbourne, and a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford. His LLM thesis was entitled The Implementation and Operation of a Transferable Water Entitlement System in Alberta: Applying the Victorian Experience to a Similar Socio-legal Setting and was published by the Government of Victoria. His doctoral thesis was entitled Crown Land in Australia.

Paul is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Canada, and a Member of the Law Society of South Australia.  Between 1992 and 1994, he was an Associate--practising natural resources law, corporate/commercial law and securities law--with what is now Borden, Ladner, Gervais, Canada's largest national law firm.  Between 1994 and 1995 he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Melbourne, and from 1996 until 1999 he was Lecturer in Law at St Catherine's and Balliol Colleges, Oxford.  He joined the University of Adelaide in 1999, where he is curently Senior Lecturer, teaching property law, property theory, perspectives on property and society, Roman law, and torts.

Paul has held the following visiting appointments: Visiting Professor, University of Detroit Mercy, School of Law; Visiting Profesor, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law; Ron W. Ianni Scholar in Residence and Visiting Professor, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law; Visiting Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Law; Visiting Professor, University of Dayton, Faculty of Education; Visiting Professor, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; and, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law.

An active and widely published researcher, Paul's work is mainly in legal theory, especially the nature and concept of property and the intersection of liberal property theory and religious understandings of possessions.  He is currently writing a book for UBC Press in Canada entitled Private Property, Climate Change and the Children of Abraham.  He is also an expert in Eastern Catholic canon law, on which he is regularly consulted.

In 2004, Paul was ordained a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Church for the Eparchy of Sts Peter and Paul of Melbourne for the Ukrainian Catholics of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.  He currently holds the following positions: Chair of the Eparchial Statutes Review and Canon Law Committee and Canon Law Adviser to the Eparch; Chair of the Eparchial Professional Standards Committee; Chair of the Eparchial Ecology and Environment Committee; Legal Member of the Eparchial Financial Committee; Canon Law Advisor, Chief Constitutional Draftsperson, and Eparchial Representative to the Eastern Catholic Bishops' Association of Australia; and, Member of the Eparchial Liturgical Committee.

Paul is married and he and his wife have two wonderful children.

Qualifications

DPhil (Oxford)

LLM (Melbourne)

LLB (Alberta)

BThSt (Flinders)

BA (Calgary)

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

Member, Law Society of South Australia

Priest, Eparchy of Sts Peter and Paul of Melbourne for the Ukrainian Catholics of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

Teaching Interests

Property Law (LLB/MCL)

Property Theory (LLB/MCL)

Roman Law (LLB/MCL)

Law and Religion (LLB/MCL)

Law of Torts (LLB/MCL)

Research Interests

property theory

ecological jurisprudence

religious legal systems

society, law and theology

Publications

Editorial Boards
Adelaide Law Review, Co-Editor, 2008-present

ATF Press, Ethics Series Editorial Board, Chair, 2008-present

Australasian Theological Book Reviewer, Editorial Committee Member, 2007-present

Books
Climate Change, Private Property, and the Children of Abraham, under contract with UBC Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada, to be published 2011

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 forthcoming)

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
'Earth Jurisprudence: The Link Between Private Property and Human Consequences' in Peter Burdon, ed, Wild Law (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, forthcoming 2010)

'Ecology and Monotheism' in Peter Burdon, ed, Wild Law (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, forthcoming 2010)

'Climate Change and the Concept of Private Property' in Rosemary Lyster, ed Revelling in the Wilds of Climate Law (Sydney and Canberra: Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, forthcoming 2010)

'Private Property, Climate Change and Christianity: A Narrative of Sacrifice' in Nadirsyah Hosen, ed, Law and Religions (London, England: Routledge, forthcoming 2010)

Articles
refereed
''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 Sheptytsâ�^TMkyi 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

non-refereed
'125 Years of Legal Education in South Australia' (2008) 2 The Hilarian 2

'125 Years of Legal Education in South Australia: In 2008 the University of Adelaide Law School Marks its 125th Anniversary' (2008) 30(3) Law Society of South Australia Bulletin 27

'Our Faith and the Environment', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 9, 28 May-17 June 2007, 5

'The Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia', (2006) 10 Cathedral Magazine 27-30, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Adelaide, Australia, December 2006 (1,500 words)

'God Is Love: A Personal Reflection on the 2006 Clergy Retreat', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 16, 31 July-20 August 2006, 5 (1,193 words)

'God Is Love: A Personal Reflection on the 2006 Clergy Retreat', Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist, Perth, Western Australia, 13-20 August 2005 - #456 email Newsletter (1,193 words)

'Allowing Luke's Parable of the Rich Fool to Speak to Our Contemporary Use of Private Property', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 14, 26 June-9 July 2006, 3 (275 words)

'Back to the Future or a Short Reflection on Two Early Christian Communities', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 4, 6-19 February 2006, 3 (1,853 words)

'Three Churches Unite in Prayer', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 23, 24 October-6 November 2005, 3 (300 words)

'Eparchial Statutes Updated', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 22, 10-23 October 2005, 4 (1,500 words)

'The Filioque and its Removal from the Profession of Faith', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 21, 26 September-9 October 2005, 3 (1,500 words)

'The 2005 Clergy Retreat - I', Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist -Perth, Western Australia, 14-21 August 2005 - #456 email Newsletter (1,000 words)

''Will You Accept My Invitation?': Reflections on the Eucharist--The 2005 Clergy Retreat', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 17, 1-14 August 2005, 4 and 8 (2,500 words)

'The Future of Our Parishes: A Spiritual Reflection as We Enter the Year of the Eucharist', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 4, 7-20 February 2005, 3 (1,155 words)

'The Silence of this Place: The 2004 Clergy Retreat', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 18, 19, 22 August-19 September 2004, 3 (2,165 words)

'Catholic Canon Law Finds a Place in the University of Adelaide Law School', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 16, 26 July-8 August 2004, 3 (450 words)

'Your Chance to Experience Eastern Christian Spirituality in English', The Southern Cross Monthly July 2004, 23 (1,355 words)

'Our Church', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 9, 19 April-2 May 2004, 2 and 3 (2,000 words)

'The Year of Mercy and Compassion: A Spiritual Reflection as We Start the New Year', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 1-2, 19-31 January 2004, 1 and 2 (1,000 words)

'The Year of Mercy and Compassion: A Spiritual Reflection as We Start the New Year', Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist -Perth, Western Australia, 18-25 January 2004 - #373 email Newsletter (1,000 words)

'A Lemon-Scented Gum Tree', Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist -Perth, Western Australia, 14-21 September 2003 - #77 email Newsletter (1,500 words)

'A Lemon-Scented Gum Tree', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 22, 8-21 September 2003, 3 (1,500 words)

'Oriental Lumen II, Ecumenism and Our Ukrainian Catholic Church', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 22, 8-21 September 2003, 5 (3,000 words)

'A Seven Day Personal Retreat', Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist -Perth, Western Australia, 7-14 September 2003 - #76 email Newsletter (2,000 words)

'Sharing the Spiritual Riches: A Spiritual Reflection on the 2003 Clergy Retreat', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 20, 11-24 August 2003, 1-3 and 8 (3,000 words)

''Embracing the Other': The Statutes and the Future of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia, Part II', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 14, 19 May-1 June 2003, 3 and 8 (3,000 words)

''Embracing the Other': The Statutes and the Future of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia, Part I', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 12-13, 6-18 May 2003, 8-9 (3,000 words)

'A Reflection on Matthew 2:13-23', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 5, 24 February-9 March 2003, 3 (1,589 words)

'A Reflection on Matthew 2:13-23', Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist - Perth, Western Australia, 16-23 February 2003 - #47 email Newsletter (1,589 words)

'How I Spent My Summer Vacation', Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 4, 10-23 February 2003, 4 (2,000 words)

'We Are an Ecological Church II' Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist -Perth, Western Australia, 24 November-1 December 2002 - #35 email Newsletter (4,265 words)

'We Are an Ecological Church I' Ukrainian Catholic Church: Parish of St John the Baptist -Perth, Western Australia, 17-24 November 2002 - #34 email Newsletter (4,265 words)

'We Are an Ecological Church: Part II' Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 23, 11-24 November 2002, 3 and 7 (2,200 words)

'We Are an Ecological Church: Part I' Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 22, 28 October-10 November 2002, 3 (2,200 words)

'The Eparchial Statutes: What They Mean for You' Church and Life: Ukrainian Religious Newspaper in Australia, No 8, 8-21 April 2002, 4-5 (2,500 words)

Public Lectures, Conference and Seminar Presentations

refereed or invited
'Climate Change and Private Property' Series of Lectures, NORKLIMA Project: Adapting to Climate Change Through Land Use Planning and Nature Management: Obligations, Rights and Risks, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Natural Resouces Group, Oslo, Norway, May 2010 (invited)

'Climate Change and Private Property' Series Of Lectures, NORKLIMA Project: Adapting to Climate Change Through Land Use Planning and Nature Management: Obligations, Rights, and Risks, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Natural Resources Group, Oslo, Norway, March 2010

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)

'Eastern Christianity, Relationship and Private Property: Developing a Patristic Theory of the Obligations of Private Property', Poverty and Riches, Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church V Conference, Australian Catholic University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 9-12 January 2008 (paper accepted but unable to present)

'William and Katrina: Absolutist Private Property and Global Warming', The Life, Thought and Influence of William Blackstone, University of Adelaide, Australia, 14-15 December 2007 (paper accepted but unable to present)

'Choices: The Role that Religious Understandings of Possessions can play in Social Relations Theories of Property' for, Religion in a Secular Age: A Conference with Charles Taylor, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 12-14 December 2007 (paper accepted, but conference cancelled due to inability of Charles Taylor to attend)

'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)

'Choices That Matter: The Implications of a Patristic Understanding of Christian Scripture for Private Property and the Environment', Religion, Science & the Environment Symposium VII, the Arctic: Mirror of Life, Greenland, September 2007, and attended by Kofi Annan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sir Nicholas Stern (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)

'Making the Link: Climate Change, Private Property and Christianity', 2007 'Food for Thought' South Australian and Northern Territory Lutheran Church Seminar Series, Adelaide, Australia, 27 May 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

non-refereed

'My Life as a Ukrainian Catholic' for Flinders University Spiritual Talking Books Series, Adelaide, Australia, 11 September 2008 (invited)

'Making the Link: Climate Change, Private Property and Christianity', Public Lecture, St George's Anglican Church, Goodwood, Adelaide, Australia, 30 September 2007 (invited)

'Making the Link: Climate Change, Private Property and Christianity', Public Lecture, Ecoministry Gathering, Scots Uniting Church, Adelaide, Australia, 12 August 2007 (invited)

'Making the Link: Climate Change, Private Property and Christianity', Public Lecture, Scots Uniting Church, Adelaide, Australia, 10 June 2007 (invited)

'Property: The Importance of the Spatial Dimension', Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, Faculty Seminar, 30 January 2007

'Choices of Faith: how private property and the Abrahamic religions can work together for the good of the environment', Faculty of Law, University of Detroit Mercy, USA, Faculty Seminar, 25 January 2007

'Breaking the Silence: Law, Theology, and Religion in Australia', School of Law, University of Adelaide, Brown Bag Research in Progress Seminar Series, 12 September 2006

'Being a Very Public Christian in a Very Secular Environment', Adelaide Catholic Breakfast Seminar, Adelaide, Australia, 12 August 2006

'The Place of Space in Property Theory', School of Law, University of Adelaide, Faculty Seminar Program, 17 October 2005

'Legal and Moral Issues of Water Licensing on the River Murray', Public Lecture, Scots Uniting Church, Adelaide, Australia, 25 August 2005

'Private Property and Christianity', Lunchtime with a Lecturer Seminar Series, Scots Uniting Church, Adelaide, Australia, 31 May 2005

'The Theology of Icons', St George's Anglican Church, Goodwood, Adelaide, Australia, 24 May 2004.

'The Journey: St Philip's Fast Retreat', St Stephen's Ukrainian Catholic Parish, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 12-15 December 2004

'Eastern Christianity, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, and the Filioque: A Discussion Paper', Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ss Peter and Paul for Ukrainian Catholics of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, Soborchyk 2004

'The Nature of Religious Law', Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, Faculty Colloquium, 13 November 2003

'The Nature of Religious Law', Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Canada, Faculty Colloquium, 6 November 2003

'A Theological and Spiritual Family: Moral Law and Non-Christian Religions', Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, Youth for Christ Conference, Daylesford, Victoria, 26-29 September 2003, principal speaker

'The Diaconate in the Eastern Christian Churches: A Personal Vocational Reflection', Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, Vocations Retreat for Young Adults, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 August 2003

'The Eastern Catholic Churches: A Spiritual Reflection', Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, Process for Youth Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, 26 July 2003

'We Are an Ecological Church', Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, Youth for Christ Conference, Victor Harbour, South Australia, 27-30 September 2002

'Ukrainian Catholics, Canon Law, the Eparchial Statutes and 'Church' in Australia' Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ss Peter and Paul for Ukrainian Catholics of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Clergy Conference 2002

Paul Babie and Olexander Kenez, 'Eastern Christian Theology and Ecological Conversion: How Can our Church Move Ahead/Lead the Way, A Proposal' Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ss Peter and Paul for Ukrainian Catholics of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Clergy Conference 2002

'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

Television and Radio
'Christianity and the Environment', assisted Grace Spurling, Producer of Encounter Program, ABC Radio National, November 2006-July 2007

'On the Priesthood and Academia', SBS Radio, Australia, Ukrainian Program, 20 April 2004 (transcript available at www.sbs.com.au/radio)

'Embracing the Other: Ecclesiology, Canon Law and Ukrainian Catholics in Australia', SBS Radio, Australia, Ukrainian Program, 25 February 2003 (transcript available at www.sbs.com.au/radio)

'Peppercorn rents on leases of Crown land', ABC Television, Stateline South Australia, 12 and 14 July 2002

Research Related Invitations
Invited to contribute to The (Oxford) Australian Law Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2010), 2009

Invited to act as consultant author for Catholic Earthcare Australia on ASSISI: A Strategic Systems-based Integrated Sustainability Initiative to write on private property and the environment, 2008-present

Invited to work on property theory and climate change with Associate Professor Dr Juris Endre Stavang, University of Oslo, Department of Private Law, Oslo, Norway, 2008-present

Invited to participate in national consultation on Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21^st Century, Australian Human Rights Commission, 20 November 2008

Invited by the World Justice Project of the American Bar Association to participate as an Expert Respondent in the development of the Rule of Law Index 2008

Invited to present a paper at the 'Faith in Reason and Reason in Faith: Philosophical Theological Transformations from the 18^th to 20^th Century', University of Hong Kong, China, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, 23-26 October 2008

Invited to attend and chair a session at the 'The Future of Indigenous Legal Studies in Australasian Law Schools: Incorporating Indigenous Issues in Law Curricula' Conference 2008, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, 10-11 July 2008 (unable to attend)

Invited to attend and submit a paper for the Oxford Round Table symposium 'The Rule of Law: International and Comparative Perspectives', University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College and Rhodes House, 3-8 August 2008

Invited to chair editorial board for Bioethics Series (Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press, 2008 forthcoming)

Invited to present paper at the Theology in the World Today Conference, hosted by the Australasian Theological Forum, Cairns, June 2007 (conference postponed)

Invited to present 'The Morality of Transferable Water Entitlements' to the Canadian Bar Association Environmental Lawyers Seminar, Edmonton, Canada, 8 February 2007 (unable to deliver the lecture due to a schedule conflict)

Invited to chair sessions at Law, Religion and Social Change Conference, hosted by the College of Law, Australian National University, 25-27 May 2006 (unable to attend)

Seminar and Conference Series Convened
'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, 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'

Professional Associations

Barrister and Solicitor, Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Canada

Member, Law Society of South Australia

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Entry last updated: Monday, 16 Nov 2009