By Dr Harry Orr 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

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

Weller P; Hobbs H; Evans M; Dunleavy P, 2024, 'Situating Australian Democracy', in Evans M; Dunleavy P; Phillimore J (ed.), Australia’s Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit, LSE Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ada.a

Hobbs H, 2024, 'The Constitution', in Australia’s Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit, LSE Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ada.c

Dunleavy P; Evans M; Hobbs H; Weller P, 2024, 'Situating Australian democracy', in Australia's Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit, pp. 31 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ada.a

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, 'Treaty making and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: lessons from emerging negotiations in Australia', in The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Routledge, pp. 173 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003035770-11

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

Golder B; Steel A; Nehme M; Vines P, 2019, 'Legal Education Research As an Imperative', in Imperatives for Legal Education Research Then, Now and Tomorrow, Routledge, pp. 3 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429426070

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

Peleg N; Tobin J, 2019, 'Article 6: The Rights to Life, Survival and Development', in Tobin J (ed.), The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 186 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198262657.001.0001

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, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/pseudolaw-and-sovereign-citizens-9781509978915/

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

Golder B; Steel A; Nehme M; Vines P, (eds.), 2019, Imperatives of Legal Education Research, Routledge, London, https://www.routledge.com/Imperatives-for-Legal-Education-Research-Then-Now-and-Tomorrow/Golder-Nehme-Steel-Vines/p/book/9781138387805

Journal articles

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

Hobbs H, 2024, 'Protecting Sacred Sites', Sydney Law Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/slr.20331

Hobbs H; Rothwell D; Hobbs H, 2024, 'Towards a legal era of islands: the international and constitutional legal status of island territories', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 73, pp. 1 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589324000265

Hobbs H, 2024, 'Bruce Miller, Witness to the human rights tribunals: how the system fails indigenous people', Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, 4, pp. 196 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.52230/fjru3568

Hobbs H, 2024, 'Vicki Chattrand and Josephine Savarese (Editors), Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System', Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, 4, pp. 236 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.52230/mapf6291

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, https://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/taking-stock-of-indigenous-state-treaty-making-in-australia-opportunities-and-challenges

Hobbs H; Young S; McIntyre J; Hobbs H, 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; 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; 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

de Castro VB; Hobbs H, 2024, 'THE PRINCE OF THE ABROLHOS, 2020-2023 (On Micronations and Pseudolaw in Western Australia)', SHIMA-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO ISLAND CULTURES, 18, pp. 149 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.21463/shima.2151

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, 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, 2023, '50 HUMAN RIGHTS CASES THAT CHANGED AUSTRALIA', ALTERNATIVE LAW JOURNAL, 48, pp. 232 - 232

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; Williams G, 2023, 'AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTS AND THE PANDEMIC', UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL, 46, pp. 1314 - 1355

Hobbs H; Gomez A, 2023, 'Australians Speak Out: Persuasive Language Styles', AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL, 97

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; Price R, 2023, 'Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND 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

Hobbs H; Hohmann JM, 2023, 'The Cinderella Stamps and Philatelic Practices of Micronations: The Materiality of Claims to Statehood', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4582586

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

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