Summer Clerk Diary: Sophie Barrow, DibbsBarker
Sydney University arts law student Sophie Barrow is another clerk who traded her summer in the sun (well, what little sun there was) for the chance to experience life in a law firm. Here is Sophie’s clerkship experience with DibbsBarker…...
Summer Clerk Diary: Sam Elder, Hunt & Hunt La...
University of Melbourne juris doctor student Sam Elder spent his summer clerking with Hunt & Hunt Lawyers. Here is Sam’s take on the summer clerk experience… (more…)
Working Hardly: Random Facts about the Gavel
The iconic hammer of justice seems ubiquitous in pop culture. Every time I watch a crime show, there’s an exasperated judge shouting “Order! Order!” and banging their gavel. Despite this, little is known about the enigmatic mallet of the law....
The Wisdom of Judge Judy
To commemorate fifteen years of The Judge Judy Show having entertained bored law students everywhere, we at Survive Law have unearthed fifteen of her most memorable quotations…
Why Law Students Should Blog
Yesterday we published our first-ever annual list of Australia’s Best Law Student Blogs. To prepare the list, we set out across the interwebz in search of fantastic blawgs (law blogs). We unearthed some fantastic blogs, but also quickly learned that naming a top ten would be hard. There were scarcely ten blogs out there. This needs fixing.
Australia’s Best Law Student Blogs
Happy Australia Day, Survivors! To celebrate, we’ve scoured the net for Australia’s best law student blogs (aka blawgs). From late nights and case notes, to High Court judgments and last-minute assignments, there sure is a lot to write about!
Party Games for Law Students
We only have a few weeks of holidays left so it’s time to throw a party and catch up with your law friends before they all disappear under a mountain of cases. All good parties have games, but some common party games need a bit of a makeover…
The Best of Ted Buckland
He’s sweaty, nervous, and has an unnatural relationship with his mother (“she has cold feet”). Scrubs character Ted Buckland is the anti-lawyer we empathise with during all night cram sessions before exams. A sufferer of acute flop sweat and a distinct lack of hair, Ted’s woes in law provide the perfect antidote to the hotshot fictional lawyers we usually see on TV.
(Welcome to) the Year of Living Dangerously
Oh, a storm is threatenin’
My very life today
If I don’t find some shelter
Oh, I’m going to fade away…
- Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones
Forum: ADR in Legal Education and Promoting Student Wellbeing
The teaching of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in law schools and its impact on law student wellbeing will be explored at a forum presented by the Australian Teaching and Learning Council, RMIT University and the Queensland University of Technology next month.