Religion Matters

Paul Babie is Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Religion Research Project of the Research Unit for the Study of Society, Ethics, and Law (RUSSEL) (which he founded in 2007) at The University of Adelaide (Australia). He is a barrister and solicitor (inactive) of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada), and an associate member of the Law Society of South Australia. His primary research interests include critical theory, private law theory, property theory, and liberation theology and religious legal systems. He has published and spoken extensively in these fields and he teaches property law, property theory, law and religion, water law, and Roman law.Rick Sarre is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Australia (UniSA). He is the immediate Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, and is a Fellow of the Society. Professor Sarre has taught in the Business Division at Graceland University (Iowa, USA), at the Department of Law at Umeå University (Sweden), and with UniSA business programs twinned with Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong). He was the Chair of Academic Board at the University of South Australia from 2011 to 2016.