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; Patrick J, 2025, 'Law Beyond Doctrine', in Hobbs H; Patrick J (ed.), Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law, Federation Press

Hutchinson T; Hobbs H, 2025, 'Qualitative Research Methods', in Hobbs H; Patrick J (ed.), Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law, Federation Press

Avgoustinos C; Hobbs H, 2025, 'Climate Change and Constitutional Law', in Dehm J; Graham N; Nay Z (ed.), Becoming a climate conscious lawyer: Climate change and the Australian legal system, La Trobe eBureau, https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/climate-conscious-lawyer/part/climate-change-and-constitutional-law/

Hobbs H; Patrick J, 2025, 'Introduction', in Hobbs H; Patrick J (ed.), Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law, Federation Press

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

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; Patrick J, (ed.), 2025, Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law, Federation Press

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

Journal articles

Hobbs H; Taylor A, 2026, 'Quasi-Constitutionality and Indigenous-State Treaties in Australia', MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 48

Hobbs H, 2026, 'The Role of Parliament in Indigenous-State Agreement-Making', The University of New South Wales law journal, 49

Kha H; Hobbs H, 2025, 'Pseudolaw and Family Law', Australian Law Journal, 99

McIntyre J; Young S; Perrett M; Hobbs H, 2025, 'Pseudolaw Behind the Judgments: The Hidden Impact on the Administration of Justice', Australian Law Journal, 99

Young S; Hobbs H, 2025, 'Pseudolaw Beyond the Bar', Australian Law Journal, 99

Hobbs H, 2025, 'Indigenous Treaty-Making and Legal Pluralism in Australia', Legalities, 5, pp. 29 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/legal.2025.0090

Hobbs H, 2025, 'Anticipating and Weathering Challenges to Modern Treaties in Australia', Public Law Review, 35, https://anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ifdd5e3d6f6a311efa9ef91927ad29135/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&VR=3.0&RS=cblt1.0

Young S; Hobbs H, 2025, 'INTERROGATING SOVEREIGN CITIZEN PSEUDOLAW', AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL, 99

Young S; Hobbs H, 2025, 'The Concerning Intersections of Sovereign Citizen and Indigenous Sovereignty Claims', The University of New South Wales law journal, 48

Young S; Hobbs H, 2025, 'The Impact of Pseudolaw on Local Government', Public Law Review, 36

McIntyre J; Hobbs H; Young S, 2025, 'The Strawmen Trap: Non-Appearance and the Pitfalls of Pseudolaw', Australian Law Journal, 99

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

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

Hobbs H, 2024, 'Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites', SYDNEY LAW REVIEW, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/slr.20331

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; 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; 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; 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

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