It is my pleasure to announce that Paul Babie , professor of law and associate dean at Adelaide University, Australia, and my UNC colleague John Orth will both by speaking at lunchtime on November 7 at UNC Law, on the Torrens title system. The title of their program is “Property Stories: How Torrens Title Failed to Solve All the Problems, and Actually Created Some.” Babie's talk is entitled "The Carey Gulley Squatter: Crown and Possessory Title of Torrens Land in South Australia." You may have heard that Babie gave one of the best of the talks at the North Carolina Law Review 's terrific symposium on Magna Carta last fall. And that's really saying something because those talks were fabulous. Babie asked the intriguing question, why did do we remember Magna Carta but not other charters from that era. He focused on the forest charter, for instance, of 1217. And then he also unfolded how that charter has other implications for progressive property. I can