By Associate Professor Harry Hobbs

Books

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2022, Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2022, How to Rule Your Own Country The Weird and Wonderful World of Micronations, NewSouth

Hobbs H, 2021, Indigenous Aspirations and Structural Reform in Australia

Williams G; Hobbs H, 2020, Treaty, Federation Press, https://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781760022396

Book Chapters

Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J, 2025, 'Responding to Pseudolaw', in Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J (ed.), Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens, Hart

Weller P; Hobbs H; Evans M; Dunleavy P, 2025, 'Situating Australian Democracy', in Evans M; Dunleavy P; Phillimore J (ed.), Australia’s Evolving Democracy: the 2024 Democratic Audit, LSE Press

Hobbs H, 2025, 'The Constitution', in Australia’s Evolving Democracy: the 2024 Democratic Audit, LSE Press

Young S; Hobbs H; Goldwasser R, 2025, 'The Rise of Sovereign Citizen Pseudolaw in the United States of America', in Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J (ed.), Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens, Hart

Hobbs H, 2025, 'Treaties and Modern Agreements with Indigenous Peoples', in Åhrén M; Charters C; Hohmann J; Lixinski L (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Indigenous Peoples and International Law, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192887658.013.22

Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J, 2025, 'Understanding Pseudolaw', in Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J (ed.), Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens, Hart

Pillai S; Hobbs H, 2023, 'Indigeneity and Membership in Australia After Love', in Politics of Citizenship and Migration, Springer Nature, pp. 157 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_8

Hobbs H, 2023, 'Mixed Composition in International Criminal Justice: History, Rationale and Challenges', in Dziedzic A; Young S (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts, Cambridge University Press, pp. 159 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009106238

Hobbs H; Whittaker L; Coombes L, 2021, 'Introduction', in Hobbs H; Whittaker A; Coombes L (ed.), Treaty-Making 250 Years Later, pp. 1 - 15

Hobbs H, 2021, 'Self-Determination and Treaty-Making', in Castan M; Gerber P (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia, Thomson Reuters, pp. 353 - 372

Hobbs H; Young S, 2021, 'Treaty-Making: Critical Reflections on Critiques from Abroad', in Hobbs H; Whittaker A; Coombes L (ed.), Treaty-Making 250 Years Later, Federation Press, pp. 156 - 178

Hobbs H, 2020, 'Public Law, Legitimacy and Indigenous Aspirations', in The Frontiers of Public Law, Bloomsbury Publishing Pty, pp. 227 - 253, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/frontiers-of-public-law-9781509930371/

Williams G; Hobbs H, 2019, 'Trust and the Constitution', in Evans M; Grattan M; McCaffrie B (ed.), From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide, Melbourne University Publishing, pp. 75 - 92, https://www.amazon.com.au/Turnbull-Morrison-Understanding-Trust-Divide/dp/0522876137

Tobin J; Hobbs H, 2019, 'Article 37: Torture, Capital Punishment and Deprivation of Liberty', in The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 1420 - 1502

Williams G; Hobbs H, 2017, 'Citizen Participation in Australia’', in Mechanisms of Citizen Participation: The Global Experience, Tirant lo blanch, Spain, pp. 49 - 64

Edited Books

Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J, (eds.), 2025, Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens, Hart

Hobbs H; Whittaker A; Coombes L, (eds.), 2021, Treaty-Making 250 Years Later, Federation Press

Journal articles

McIntyre J; Hobbs H; Young S, 2025, 'The Strawmen Trap: Non-Appearance and the Pitfalls of Pseudolaw', Australian Law Journal

Hobbs H; Rothwell D, 2024, 'TOWARDS A LEGAL ERA OF ISLANDS: THE INTERNATIONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL STATUS OF ISLAND TERRITORIES', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pp. 1 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589324000265

Hobbs H, 2024, 'TAKING STOCK OF INDIGENOUS-STATE TREATY-MAKING IN AUSTRALIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 47, pp. 548 - 588

Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J, 2024, 'THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF PSEUDOLAW: THE GROWTH OF SOVEREIGN CITIZEN ARGUMENTS IN AUSTRALIA AND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 47, pp. 309 - 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.53637/ybcn5467

de Castro VB; Hobbs H, 2024, 'THE PRINCE OF THE ABROLHOS, 2020-2023:(On Micronations and Pseudolaw in Western Australia)', Shima, 18, pp. 149 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.21463/shima.215

Hobbs H, 2024, 'Anticipating and Weathering Challenges to Modern Treaties in Australia', Public Law Review, 35

Hobbs H; Williams G; Hobbs H, 2024, 'Did Australian Parliaments Meet Regularly During the Pandemic?', Papers on Parliament, 72

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2023, 'AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTS AND THE PANDEMIC', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 46, pp. 1314 - 1355, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4362855

Hobbs H; Hohmann J, 2023, 'The cinderella stamps and philatelic practices of micronations: the materiality of claims to statehood', London Review of International Law, 11, pp. 443 - 479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad018

Hobbs H; Wensing E, 2023, 'An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament: what can Australia learn from other countries?', Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, pp. 139 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.vi28.8768

Hobbs H, 2023, 'The New Right and Aboriginal Rights in the High Court of Australia', Federal Law Review, 51, pp. 129 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205X221146333

Hobbs H; Hayward P; Motum R, 2023, 'Cyber Micronations and Digital Sovereignty', Digital Society, 2, pp. 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00069-9

Hobbs H, 2023, 'Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies. By Richard  Price (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. xii + 358. AU$73.99 (pb).', Australian Journal of Politics & History, 69, pp. 166 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12896

Hobbs H; Hobbs H, 2023, 'Introducing the Symposium on the Voice to Parliament', Public Law Review, 34, pp. 103 - 109

Young S; Hobbs H; McIntyre J; Hobbs H, 2023, 'The Growth of Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens in Aotearoa New Zealand Courts', New Zealand Law Journal, pp. 6 - 10

Miller R; Hobbs H, 2023, 'Unraveling the International Law of Colonialism: Lessons From Australia and the United States', Michigan Journal of Race & Law, pp. 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.36643/mjrl.28.2.unraveling

Hobbs H, 2023, 'We go again', Alternative Law Journal, 48, pp. 239 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x231211368

Larkin D; Hobbs H; Lino D; Maguire A, 2022, 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Law Reform and the Return of the States', The University of Queensland Law Journal, 41, pp. 35 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.38127/uqlj.v41i1.6353

Hobbs H; Jones BT, 2022, 'Egalitarian nationhoods: a political theory in defence of the voice to parliament in the Uluru Statement from the Heart', Australian Journal of Political Science, 57, pp. 129 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2022.2028720

Morris S; Hobbs H; Hobbs H, 2022, 'Imagining a Makarrata Commission', Monash University Law Review, 48, pp. 19 - 64

Hobbs H, 2021, 'First Nations, Settler Parliaments, and the Question of Consultation: Reconciling Parliamentary Supremacy and Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Self-Determination', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 58, pp. 337 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.3680

Hobbs H; Young S, 2021, 'Modern treaty making and the limits of the law', University of Toronto Law Journal, 71, pp. 234 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utlj-2019-0131

Hobbs H, 2021, 'Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand', Journal of Australian Studies, 45, pp. 126 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2021.1872834

Hobbs H, 2021, 'Drawing an Implied Limitation to the Race Power', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4007788

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2021, 'Micronations: A lacuna in the law', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 19, pp. 71 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moab020

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2021, 'The demise of the ‘second largest country in Australia’: micronations and Australian exceptionalism', Australian Journal of Political Science, 56, pp. 206 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2021.1935450

Pepper R; Hobbs H, 2021, 'THE ENVIRONMENT IS ALL RIGHTS: HUMAN RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS', Melbourne University Law Review, 44, pp. 634 - 678

Hobbs H, 2020, 'The Road to Uluru: Constitutional Recognition and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66, pp. 613 - 632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12707

Harley T; Hobbs H, 2020, 'The meaningful participation of refugees in decision-making processes: Questions of law and policy', International Journal of Refugee Law, 32, pp. 200 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeaa010

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