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Lovingly Hating Law School
When I tell people that I study law, I’m often bombarded with questions like, “Do you have a lot of readings? Is it hard? How do you cope?”
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Survive Law
Dec 3, 20142 min read
Living in legal career limbo
In recent times there has been a proliferation of ominous news stories and opinion articles warning of the crippling job prospects faced by
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Survive Law
Dec 1, 20142 min read
Think you failed an exam?
There is nothing worse than walking out of an exam and having the feeling that you have just failed. Here are some handy tips for loosening
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Survive Law
Dec 1, 20141 min read
Christmas Gifts for Law Students
December is finally here! Once you've opened the first window on your advent calendar, it soon dawns on you that you still have a lot of
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Survive Law
Dec 1, 20141 min read
Australia's 37th law school to launch in 2015
Swinburne University of Technology has announced that it will be offering a law degree from next year. The law faculty, which is based at...
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Survive Law
Nov 26, 20141 min read
Which Australian city is the best for students?
Six Australian cities have made the list of the world’s 50 best cities for university students. In this year’s QS Best Student Cities...
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Survive Law
Nov 20, 20142 min read
LGBT Law Students: Are Law Firms going to be as accepting as University?
At my very liberal university, being LGBT has never been an issue. Nor has it been in the law faculty, where many students have progressive
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Survive Law
Nov 19, 20142 min read
Finding Future Career Opportunities
While practice areas such as property and tax are long-established areas of practice for lawyers, the areas of law that lawyers can work in
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Survive Law
Nov 14, 20141 min read
Sydney Law School Wins National Intervarsity Women’s Moot
A team from the University of Sydney has won the fourth annual National Intervarsity Women’s Moot. Alice Zhou, Sarah Ienna and India...
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Survive Law
Nov 11, 20142 min read
Statutory Interpretation Tips
An excruciatingly hefty proportion of your law degree depends on your skills of statutory interpretation. It is this skill you should feel m
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Survive Law
Nov 4, 20145 min read
Tips for Being a Happier Law Student (With some useful stuff about life, law school and goats)
In case you hadn't noticed (you had), law school is a pain in neck. A very rewarding, fulfilling, ego stroking, pain in the neck, but a
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Survive Law
Nov 4, 20141 min read
Melbourne Law School Wins Castan Human Rights Law Moot
A team from the University of Melbourne has defeated the University of Tasmania to win the eighth Castan Centre Human Rights Law Mooting Com
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Survive Law
Oct 31, 20141 min read
UNSW Students Launch Indigenous Mooting Competition
Indigenous students at the University of New South Wales recently held the inaugural Mooting Competition of Australia’s First Peoples – a mo
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Survive Law
Oct 30, 20141 min read
Bond takes out first Animal Law Moot title
Students from Bond University have defeated the University of Tasmania to win the inaugural Voiceless Australian-New Zealand Intervarsity Mo
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Survive Law
Oct 29, 20141 min read
UQ wins AAT Moot
The University of Queensland has defeated the University of Western Australia to take out this year’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal Nation
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Survive Law
Oct 27, 20143 min read
Eat your way to Great Marks: Exam Time Nutrition
During these frantic weeks before exams, everything that doesn’t directly relate to trying to understand hearsay or the Tasmanian Dam case g
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Survive Law
Oct 23, 20143 min read
Working Hardly: Laughs from the Bench
Law school is pretty awesome, but sometimes it can seem a bit too serious. Here are a few hilarious comments from judges to counter those dr
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Oct 23, 20142 min read
Part Time, Smart Time
Once you start your degree, there is no denying that most of us come to feel chained to the expected graduation date our universities give u
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Survive Law
Oct 22, 20145 min read
How to Study for a Closed Book Exam
I’m terrible at remembering names, and I’m even worse when it comes to numbers – and a closed book exam means memorising lots of case...
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Survive Law
Oct 18, 20143 min read
Procrastibaking Recipes
When I study, I always get hungry. I also look for a way to waste time and avoid my study. Enter procrastibaking: the solution for both prob
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