Directory of Scholars
PAUL BABIE
BA (CALGARY), BTHST (FLINDERS), LLB (ALBERTA), LLM (MLEBOURNE), DPHIL (OXFORD)
SENIOR LECTURER IN LAW AND ASSOCIATE DEAN OF LAW (RESEARCH)
Primary Research Interests
- Climate change law
- Corporate environmental responsibility
- Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
- Water law
Secondary Research Interests
- Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
- Constitutional law and the environment
- Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
- Energy law
- Environmental ethics & justice
- Environmental politics
- Human rights & the environment
- International environmental law
- Municipal & land use planning
- Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)
Selected Publications
- Climate Change, Private Property, and the Children of Abraham, under contract with UBC Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada, to be published 2011
- The Implementation and Operation of Transferable Water Entitlement Systems in Victoria and Alberta (Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Victoria, 1997) ISBN 0 7311 0593 1 (40,000 words)
- ‘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 2009) (10,447 words)
- ‘Private Property, the Environment and Christianity’ (2002) 15 Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 307-323 (University of Melbourne, Australia) (8,600 words)