By Dr Harry Orr Hobbs

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; 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, '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

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

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

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', Public Law Review, 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

Hobbs H, 2020, 'A Queensland treaty: Current steps and potential challenges', Alternative Law Journal, 45, pp. 25 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X19891709

Hobbs H; Hobbs H, 2020, 'Book Review: Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Rights: Troubling Subjects by Stephen Young', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 21

, 2020, 'The Frontiers of Public Law', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509930401

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2019, 'The participation of Indigenous Australians in legal education, 2001–18', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42, pp. 1294 - 1327, http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/the-participation-of-indigenous-australians-in-legal-education-2001-18/

Hobbs H, 2019, 'Treaty making and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: lessons from emerging negotiations in Australia', International Journal of Human Rights, 23, pp. 174 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2018.1562918

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2019, 'Protecting Religious Freedom in a Human Rights Act', Australian Law Journal, 93, pp. 721 - 733, http://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/2019/09/16/australian-law-journal-update-vol-93-pt-9-special-issue-on-religious-freedom/

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2019, 'Treaty Making in the Australian Federation', Melbourne University Law Review, 43, pp. 178 - 232, https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/3166050/05-Hobbs-and-Williams.pdf

Hobbs H, 2018, 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and multinational federalism in Australia', Griffith Law Review, 27, pp. 307 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2018.1557587

Hobbs H; Trotter A, 2018, 'Lessons from history in dealing with our most dangerous', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 41, pp. 319 - 354

Hobbs H, 2018, 'Constitutional recognition and reform: developing an inclusive Australian citizenship through treaty', Australian Journal of Political Science, 53, pp. 176 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1449801

Hobbs H, 2018, 'RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AND RECONCILIATION: Canada Confronts its History', ALTERNATIVE LAW JOURNAL, 43, pp. 62 - 63

williams G; hobbs H, 2018, 'The Noongar Settlement: Australia's First Treaty', The Sydney Law Review, 40, pp. 1 - 38

Hobbs H; Pillai S; Williams G, 2018, 'The disqualification of dual citizens from Parliament: Three problems and a solution', Alternative Law Journal, 43, pp. 73 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X18777910

Bai J; Hobbs H, 2017, 'Appointing Attorneys-General to the High Court: A case for reform', Alternative Law Journal, 42, pp. 286 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X17732707

Hobbs H; Williams G, 2017, 'The case for a national whole-of-government anti-corruption body', ALTERNATIVE LAW JOURNAL, 42, pp. 178 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X17730190

Hobbs H, 2017, 'Towards a Principled Justification for the Mixed Composition of Hybrid International Criminal Tribunals', Leiden Journal of International Law, 30, pp. 177 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S092215651600056X

Hobbs H, 2017, 'Democratic theory and constitutional design: Hearing persistent electoral minorities', International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 24, pp. 341 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718115-02404002

Hobbs H; Trotter A; Hobbs H, 2017, 'The Constitutional Conventions and constitutional change: making sense of multiple intentions', Adelaide Law Review, 38, pp. 49 - 85, https://law.adelaide.edu.au/adelaide-law-review#volume-38-number-1-2017

Hobbs H; Lynch A; Williams G, 2017, 'The High Court Under Chief Justice Robert French', Australian Law Journal, 91, pp. 53 - 71

Hobbs H, 2016, 'Indigenous Peoples’ Status in the International Legal System', Alternative Law Journal, 41, pp. 293 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X1604100419

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