The search is on again.

On Australia Day, we’ll be publishing our second annual list of Australia’s top law student blogs. Tell us about your blawg (aka law blog) or nominate your friend’s site now!

Hooray! Summer holidays are here! It’s time for road trips and overseas holidays, for broadening horizons (and trying local beers). Because you’ll never really be able to switch off the law part of your brain, here are a few law-themed activities to sneak into your itinerary…

At law school we spend years studying the decisions of the High Court. Although you’ve written plenty of case notes about the HCA’s judgments, here are some things you probably didn’t know about Australia’s highest court… 

It is with a heavy heart that I type this. After years of denial, I have to accept the truth: I have a problem. I am addicted to stationery.

That’s right. I, like thousands, of law students before me, have an insatiable urge to fill my life with the many colours, textures, sizes and uses that only stationery can give me.

Everybody loves a good law student confession, probably because it’s nice to know that you’re not the only one that has an altered worldview or the only person who does weird things around exam time. Today’s tales delve into our legal misconceptions, pop culture obsessions and unhealthy love of the AustLII app...

Our law degrees are peppered with cases that involve quirky facts and random events. I often find that these cases help to make the long hours of tedious reading not quite so nap-worthy and substantially more interesting. An added bonus is that the truly quirky cases help to make ideas and principles much easier to remember!

Here are some of my favourite unusual cases…