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Are you Addicted to Stationery?
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.
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Survive Law
Nov 21, 20122 min read
Working Hardly: More Law Student Confessions
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
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Survive Law
Nov 15, 20122 min read
Why I Love Quirky Cases
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 hou
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Survive Law
Nov 6, 20121 min read
Learning the Language of Law
I love studying law… but I don’t love legalese. Sometimes law is more like English Language 2.0: an idiomatic minefield of oxymorons, double
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Survive Law
Nov 4, 20122 min read
Book Review: Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson QC
Geoffrey Robertson QC is well known in the legal world for his work on high-profile cases. He appears frequently in the European Court of Hu
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Survive Law
Oct 27, 20122 min read
Law Student Envy
Law students are a competitive bunch. The heady mix of sleep deprivation, coffee addiction and mind-numbing legalese all contribute to a tru
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Survive Law
Oct 21, 20123 min read
The Many Types of Procrastination
Exam time. Again. Exam preparation season leads inevitably to one thing: procrastination. Suddenly it's time for Instagram photos of jui
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Survive Law
Oct 14, 20122 min read
Things not to say to a Law Student
Law students are not a particularly sensitive bunch. Sure, we have existential crises at the start of each semester, but beyond that we are
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Survive Law
Oct 6, 20122 min read
Working Hardly: Law School Ailments
Law school ailments. Although you probably won’t find these in a medical book, you’ve probably experienced them at some stage during your la
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Survive Law
Sep 30, 20122 min read
I haven't seen my Desk Since I Started Law School. And other Law Student Confessions
From an inability to name our legal leaders, to struggles with readings, I spoke to law students about their deep, dark (and frequently nerd
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Survive Law
Sep 21, 20122 min read
Why some Law Students are Jerks: A Brief and Inept Psychoanalysis
We are all familiar with the expectation around campus that law students are arrogant, condescending (and incredibly attractive). While most
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Survive Law
Sep 21, 20122 min read
Book Review: Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel
As law students, many of us went into our degrees with idealistic beliefs about justice, and how we could uphold it once we entered the lega
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Survive Law
Sep 14, 20123 min read
Lies Pop Culture Told Me about Law
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that Legally Blonde, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Castle didn’t play a fundamental part in my decision to stud
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Survive Law
Sep 12, 20122 min read
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!
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Survive Law
Sep 9, 20121 min read
Working Hardly: Lawyer Jokes
At Survive Law, we love a good lawyer joke. There’s no use fighting it so we figure we may as well embrace it. After all, it comes with the
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Survive Law
Sep 5, 20122 min read
Working Hardly: Driven to Classroom Distraction
We’ve all come to law school to learn, right? But sometimes our learning is interrupted by that student who distracts, irritates or just pla
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Survive Law
Aug 25, 20122 min read
Tweeting Legal Eagles: Why Twitter is good for Law Students
Like most things on the Internet, Twitter can be a brilliant procrastination aid. But social media isn’t just about sharing pictures of your
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Head Editor
Aug 5, 20122 min read
A Letter to my Loved Ones
I’m barely back at uni and I can already see that the next twelve weeks will quickly be swallowed up by readings and last-minute assignments
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Survive Law
Jul 30, 20122 min read
Summer Blockbusters for Law Students
We’re back at uni but I’m already thinking about holidays. Here are the movies I’d like to see in cinemas next Summer… The Missing Page A sc
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Survive Law
Jul 28, 20122 min read
Book Review: Lord Denning’s The Discipline of Law
To many of us, ‘judicial activism’, ‘dissenting opinions’, and ‘concise and comprehensible judgments’ will conjure the image of Justice Kirb
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