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Dr Harry Hobbs is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales. Harry’s primary research interests are in public law and the rights of Indigenous peoples. Harry holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award investigating Indigenous – State treaty-making in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand to identify lessons for modern treaty-making processes in Australia. He has written widely on treaty in leading Australian and international law journals, such as the Sydney Law Review and the University of Toronto Law Journal, as well as more broadly on constitutional law, human rights and transitional justice. Alongside this work, Harry has examined the phenomenon of micronations and the growth of sovereign citizens and pseudolaw adherents in Australia and their impact on the administration of justice. Harry regularly discusses this work with judicial officers and on TV, radio and in print. His most recent edited book is Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens (Hart, 2025). His previous books with The Federation Press include Treaty (coauthored with George Williams) and Treaty-making 250 Years Later (co-edited with Alison Whittaker and Lindon Coombes).