2026
Journal - Research Article
Young, S., & Löbbert, A. (2026). Prefiguring subjection: Reconsidering pseudolaw. Law, Culture & the Humanities. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/17438721261448855
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. M. (2026). Automobilities, cultures and the question of law [Review of the book Unsettling colonial automobilities: Criminalisation and contested sovereignties]. Journal of Law & Mobility, (1/2), 36-52. Retrieved from https://repository.law.umich.edu/jlm/vol2026/iss1/2
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Young, S., Tombs, B., & France-Hudson, B. (2026). Climate law change is a dangerous trade-off. Newsroom, (16 May). Retrieved from https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/climate-law-change-is-a-dangerous-trade-off/
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2026, February). Moving law and mobile jurisdictions: Pseudolaw and sovereign citizen traffic stops in Aotearoa New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Crossing Borders Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2025
Authored Book - Research
Young, S. M. (2025). The structural limits of the law: The event horizon of legality. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 198p. doi: 10.4324/9781003483892
Edited Book - Research
Hobbs, H., Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (Eds.). (2025). Pseudolaw and sovereign citizens. Oxford, UK: Bloomsbury, 376p. doi: 10.5040/9781509978946
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. M. (2025). Self-determination and indigenous peoples: A view from the outside. In M. Åhrén, C. Charters, J. Hohmann & L. Lixinski (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Indigenous peoples and international law. (online ed.) Oxford University press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192887658.013.14
Hobbs, H., Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2025). Responding to pseudolaw. In H. Hobbs, S. Young & J. McIntyre (Eds.), Pseudolaw and sovereign citizens. (pp. 333-349). Oxford, UK: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781509978946.ch-016
Young, S., Hobbs, H., & Goldwasser, R. (2025). The rise of sovereign citizen pseudolaw in the United States of America. In H. Hobbs, S. Young & J. McIntyre (Eds.), Pseudolaw and sovereign citizens. (pp. 95-120). Oxford, UK: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781509978946.ch-006
Hobbs, H., Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2025). Understanding pseudolaw. In H. Hobbs, S. Young & J. McIntyre (Eds.), Pseudolaw and sovereign citizens. (pp. 1-19). Oxford, UK: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781509978946.ch-001
Journal - Research Article
McIntyre, J., Bray, F., Perrett, M., Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2025). A quantitative analysis of the risk of pseudolaw in South Australia. Adelaide Law Review, 46(2), 439-475.
McIntyre, J., Young, S., Hobbs, H., & Perrett, M. (2025). Pseudolaw behind the judgments: The hidden impact on the administration of justice. Australian Law Journal, 99, 685-698.
Young, S., & Hobbs, H. (2025). The concerning intersections of sovereign citizen and indigenous sovereignty claims. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 48(3), 799-833.
Young, S., & Hobbs, H. (2025). The profit and performance of pseudolaw. Law Society Journal, (October), 76-82.
McIntyre, J., Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2025). The strawmen trap: Non-appearance and the pitfalls of pseudolaw. Australian Law Journal, 99, 319-335.
Young, S. M. (2025). Naked ambitions and masked violence: The critical importance of story for law. Law & Humanities, 19(1), 71-92. doi: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2421097
Journal - Research Other
Young, S., & Hobbs, H. (2025). Pseudolaw beyond the bar. Australian Law Journal, 99, 680-684. [Editorial].
Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2025). The everyday threat of sovereign citizen pseudolaw. Inside Story, (29 August). Retrieved from https://insidestory.org.au/the-everyday-threat-of-sovereign-citizen-pseudolaw
Young, S. (2025). The stories we tell about ourselves: What drives conspiracy theories? [Review of the book Conspiracy nation]. Inside Story, (6 August). Retrieved from https://insidestory.org.au/the-stories-we-tell-about-ourselves
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2025). Combating the sovereign citizen movement: And the industry that fuels it. New Daily, (7 September). Retrieved from https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/09/07/sovereign-citizens-industry
Young, S. (2025). The threat from sovereign citizens and ‘pseudolaw adherents’ in NZ. Newsroom, (30 August). Retrieved from https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/30/the-threat-from-sovereign-citizens-and-pseudolaw-adherentsin-nz
Hobbs, H., Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2025). Meet the editors: Pseudolaw and sovereign citizens [Online forum]. Journal of Law & Society. Retrieved from https://journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/jlsblog/
Young, S. (2025). Meet the book author: The structural limits of the law: The event horizon of legality [Online forum]. Journal of Law & Society. Retrieved from https://journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/jlsblog/
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2025, February). The right to travel: Attempts at privatising law [Panel: Private law and regulation]. Verbal presentation at the Charting the Future of Private Law in Aotearoa New Zealand Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Other - Edited Journal
Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (Eds.). (2025). Australian Law Journal, 99 [Special issue: Interrogating sovereign citizen pseudolaw]. [Guest Editors].
2024
Journal - Research Article
Young, S., Latu, A., & Turei, M. (2024). Plural legal matters: Analysing the overlapping legal materiality in four categories of Whakairo Māori. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 31, 313-343.
Young, S. (2024). Pooling liability? Not in Tasman District Council v Buchanan [2024] NZCA 133. New Zealand Law Journal, (5), 180-184.
Hobbs, H., Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2024). The internationalisation of pseudolaw: The growth of sovereign citizens arguments in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 47(1), 309-342. doi: 10.53637/YBCN5467
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Mihal, J., Suaalii-Sauni, T., Gover, K., Young, S., & Hobbs, H. (2024, August). Laws and their others. Workshop presentation at the Otago Centre for Law and Society Conference: Pluralising Legalities, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
McIntyre, J., Bray, F., Crichton, J., Hobbs, H., O'Neill, F., Perrett, M., & Young, S. (2024). The rise of pseudolaw in South Australia: An empirical analysis of the emergence and impact of pseudolaw on South Australia's courts. (pp. 1-143). Adelaide, Australia: University of South Australia. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4996319
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2024, August). Sovereign citizens. Online presentation at the Southland District Council Compliance Training Day. [Research Presentation].
Young, S. (2024, June). Pseudo lawyers, sovereign citizens: What does the research tell us? Online presentation for Taituarā New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers. [Webinar].
Young, S. (2024, June). Sovereign citizens and vexatious requests: Response. Online presentation at the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) Roundtable Meeting. [Research Presentation].
Young, S. (2024, February). Self-determination of Indigenous peoples: A view from the outside. Online presentation at the workshop for the Oxford University Press Handbook on International Law and Indigenous Peoples. [Research Presentation].
Young, S. (2024, February). Pseudo lawyers, sovereign citizens, and community sheriffs: What does the research tell us? Marsh Risk Management Online Forum, Taituarā New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers. Retrieved from https://taituara.org.nz/Event?Action=View&Event_id=931
2023
Journal - Research Article
Young, S., Hobbs, H., & McIntyre, J. (2023). The growth of pseudolaw and sovereign citizens in Aotearoa New Zealand courts. New Zealand Law Journal, (1), 6-10.
Young, S. (2023). Contesting subjects: International legal discourses on terrorism and indigenous peoples' human rights. Asian Journal of International Law, 13, 273-293. doi: 10.1017/S2044251322000534
Young, S. M. (2023). Our legal borders: Interrelated constructions of individual and political bodies. Law & Critique, 34, 207-226. doi: 10.1007/s10978-022-09325-2
Journal - Research Other
Hobbs, H., McIntyre, J., & Young, S. (2023). Some people think income tax is illegal. It's pseudolaw, and it's damaging the legal system. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/some-people-think-income-tax-is-illegal-its-pseudolaw-and-its-damaging-the-legal-system-214847
Young, S. (2023). [Review of the book The colonial politics of hope: Critical junctures of indigenous-state relations]. Social & Legal Studies, 32(4), 654-656. doi: 10.1177/09646639231181118
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2023, May). Pseudo lawyers, conspiracy theorists, fixated persons, and the rest: A guide to managing self-represented litigants. Verbal presentation at the District and County Court Judges of Australia and New Zealand Biennial Conference: Managing Justice: Managing Self, Adelaide, Australia.
Young, S., MacIntyre, J., & Hobbs, H. (2023, April). Method and madness: How to make sense of pseudolegal nonsense. Verbal presentation at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference, Derry, UK.
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2023, November). On methods and madness: Making sense of pseudolegal nonsense. School of Law, Society and Criminology, University of New South Whales, Sydney, Australia. [Research Presentation].
Young, S. (2023, March). What is pseudolaw? Who are these “Sovereign Citizens”? Implications of a growing trend. New Zealand Law Society, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation].
2022
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. M. (2022). The temporal trap of human rights. In K. McNeilly & B. Warwick (Eds.), The times and temporalities of international human rights law. (pp. 67-84). Oxford: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509949939.ch-003
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2022). Tortious discipline. Griffith Law Review, 31(2), 266-286. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2022.2085419
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2022, August). The temporal trap of human rights. Verbal presentation at the Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law Workshop, [Online].
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2022, April). Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Sources and implementation. Guest lecture, College of Law, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia. [Invited Presentation].
Young, S. (2022, May). The uses of Indigenous peoples' Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Troubling subjects. School of Law Research Seminar, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. [Research Presentation].
2021
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S., & Hobbs, H. (2021). Treaty-making: Critical reflections on critiques from abroad. In H. Hobbs, A. Whittaker & L. Coombes (Eds.), Treaty-making: Two hundred and fifty years later. (pp. 156-178). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Journal - Research Article
Lixinski, L., & Young, S. (2021). Creative differences: Indigenous artists and the law at 20th century nation-building exhibitions. Hasting International & Comparative Law Review, 45(1), 3-38.
Young, S. (2021). Native title as displaced mediator. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 44(4), 1739-1769.
Young, S. (2021). Ngā ture o ngā iwi taketake: Wishes are not laws: McGirt v Oklahoma: One of the most important US Supreme Court cases of all time? Māori Law Review, (April). Retrieved from https://maorilawreview.co.nz
Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2021). Modern treaty making and the limits of the law. University of Toronto Law Journal, 71(2), 234-273. doi: 10.3138/utlj-2019-0131
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2021). [Review of the books Standing with Standing Rock; Our history is the future]. Alternative Law Journal, 46(1), 86-87. doi: 10.1177/1037969X21996856
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2021, May). Contested bodies: The competing discourses of terrorism and indigenous Human Rights in the Philippines. Verbal presentation at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: Crisis, Healing, & Re-imagining, [Online].
Young, S. (2021, April). Overlapping subjects: Discourse, terrorism and Indigenous human rights in the Philippines. Verbal presentation at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Conference, Cardiff, UK.
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2021, April). What was the first year of my academic job like? UNSW PhD Skillshare, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [Invited Presentation].
Young, S. (2021, August). Troubling subjects: Legal performativity and Indigenous peoples' FPIC. Religion Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2020
Authored Book - Research
Young, S. (2020). Indigenous peoples, consents and rights: Troubling subjects. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 264p.
Journal - Research Article
Fitzgerald, G., & Young, S. (2020). Agony, exclusion and colonial reproduction: A critical examination of the doctrine of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 29, 313-346.
Young, S., & Latu, A. (2020). Class actions, crown negligence, immunities and epidemics on trial. New Zealand Law Journal, (10), 368-372.
Young, S. (2020). Rights of Indigenous peoples: The Sioux tribes’ opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline: Standing Rock VI. Māori Law Review. Retrieved from http://maorilawreview.co.nz/2020/07/the-sioux-tribes-continuing-opposition-to-the-dapl-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-v-us-army-corps-of-engineers-standing-rock-vi/
Young, S. (2020). Computing compensation for extinguishing native title in Australia. New Zealand Law Journal, (4), 153-157.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2020, November). Reconsidering the uses of Indigenous peoples’ free, prior and informed consent. Verbal presentation at the Thomson Reuters New & Emerging Scholars Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.
Other Research Output
Young, S. M. (2020, April). Frederic Jameson: Vanishing Mediator. Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political. Retrieved from https://criticallegalthinking.com/2020/04/24/frederic-jameson-vanishing-mediator/
2019
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2019). The material costs of claiming international human rights: Australia, Adani and the Wangan and Jagalingou. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 20(2), 1-46.
Young, S. (2019). Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations, and international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples. London Review of International Law, 7(3), 377-408. doi: 10.1093/lril/lraa004
Young, S. M. (2019). The deification of process in Canada's duty to consult: Tsleil-Waututh nation v Canada. UBC Law Review, 52(3), 1065-1105.
Young, S. (2019). Searching for the author: A performative reading of legal subjection in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. Law & Humanities, 13(2), 247-268. doi: 10.1080/17521483.2019.1676530
Young, S. (2019). Consent, custom and international law in South Africa: What Australian lawmakers could learn. Alternative Law Journal, 44(3), 197-202. doi: 10.1177/1037969X19853853
Young, S. M. (2019). The self divided: The problems of contradictory claims to Indigenous peoples’ self-determination in Australia. International Journal of Human Rights, 23(1-2), 193-213. doi: 10.1080/13642987.2018.1562913
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2019). Modern treaty-making and the limits of the law. Proceedings of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy (ASLP) Conference. Retrieved from https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/events/australasian-society-of-legal-philosophy-conference
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2019, April). Big data, business and human rights: Questions about the indigenous navigator. Verbal presentation at the Data Ownership, Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Governance Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Young, S. M. (2019, May). Big Data and the business of human rights: The benefits and pitfall of the indigenous navigator. Verbal presentation at the Innovate Rights Conference: New Thinking on Business and Human Rights, Sydney, Australia.
Other Research Output
Young, S. M. (2019, February). Michel Foucault: Discipline. Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political. Retrieved from http://criticallegalthinking.com/2019/02/26/michel-foucault-discipline/
2018
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2018). Pathologies and positivism [Review of the book The Sovereignty of Human Rights]. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 24(2), 245-250. doi: 10.1080/1323238X.2018.1475464
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2018). Searching for the author: A legal performative reading of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished metafictional novel The Pale King. Vertigo: Fake News/Real Theory Seminar. Retrieved from https://law.anu.edu.au/event/seminar/vertigo-fake-newsreal-theory
2017
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2017). The Sioux’s Dakota Access Pipeline protest: Lessons from abroad. Australian Environment Review, 32(4), 102-106.
Young, S. M. (2017). Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Act 2017 (Cth): Relying on human rights to justify a legalised form of colonial dispossession? Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(30), 24-28.
Young, S. M. (2017). Tangible artefacts unearth contemporary legalities: Aboriginal artefacts and the Randwick Light Rail Project. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 23(3), 285-309. doi: 10.1080/1323238X.2017.1382679
Young, S. (2017). The Sioux's suits: Global law and the Dakota Access Pipeline. American Indian Law Journal, 6(1), 173-238.
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. M. (2017). [Review of the book A handful of sand: The Gurindji struggle, after the walk0off]. Alternative Law Journal, 42(4), 312-313. doi: 10.1177/1037969X17735759
Young, S. M. (2017). [Review of the book Foucault and the politics of rights]. Alternative Law Journal, 42(1), 79-80. doi: 10.1177/1037969X17698312
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2017, February). Indigenous uses of free, prior and informed consent: Expressing and repressing subjectivities. Verbal presentation at the Law and Political Economies of the South Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
Young, S. (2017, March). Was Deskaheh indigenous? Re-considering the narrative of indigenous peoples in international law. Verbal presentation at the International Legal Pasts: Work in Progress Workshop, Sydney, Australia.
Other Research Output
Young, S. M. (2017). Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017: Submission 47. Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Australian Parliament, Canberra, Australia. [Government Submission].
2016
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2016). Judith Butler: Performativity. Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political blog. Retrieved from http://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/11/14/judith-butlers-performativity/
2015
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2015, December). Native Title in an FPIC World: Questioning the continued reliance on the right to negotiate. Verbal presentation at the Annual Law Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ): Inside Out, Adelaide, Australia.
2006
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2006). On the status of vermin. Between the Species, 13(6), 8. doi: 10.15368/bts.2006v13n6.8
