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Let The Sun Shine: Avoiding Vitamin D Deficiency
Those long days spent studying in the library may help your grades, but did you know that being cooped up inside, trapped at your desk could
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Survive Law
Aug 14, 20131 min read
USyd Wins Shine Torts Moot
The University of Sydney is celebrating after winning the Shine Lawyers National Torts Moot in Brisbane last week. In a grand final held at
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Survive Law
Aug 13, 20132 min read
Pen v Laptop: 5 Reasons to Handwrite your Lecture Notes
Before you throw away your humble notebooks once and for all, consider these benefits of handwriting your lecture notes.
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Aug 11, 20132 min read
Working Hardly: Reasons why you should Date a Law Student
There may be many fish in the sea, but for us law students, my theory is that the fish that we're best suited to are also law students.
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Survive Law
Aug 10, 20132 min read
Why you should become a Law Student Mentor
I decided to become a mentor after my own struggle with navigating through my first year of law. The challenges of law school aren’t just li
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Survive Law
Aug 8, 20132 min read
Useful Apps for Law Students
Sure, some of us still enjoy hard copies of legislation, dictionaries and personal organisers, but there's nothing like the convenience
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Survive Law
Aug 6, 20131 min read
New Judges Join the Federal Court
Two new judges will be joining the Federal Court of Australia, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC announced yesterday. Darryl Rangiah QC will
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Survive Law
Aug 6, 20132 min read
How to Ace a Reflective Journal Assignment
The first time I was faced with a reflective journal as an assessment item, I wasn’t sure what it was or how to approach it. Plus it seems l
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Survive Law
Aug 5, 20131 min read
WA Reforms Boost Jury Participation
Western Australia has declared its new jury duty laws to be a success on the back of figures showing higher rates of jury participation. Fig
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Survive Law
Aug 5, 20133 min read
How to Write in Plain English
I was on Facebook the other day, and saw a quote that said ‘if you can’t explain something simply, then you don’t understand it well enough’
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Survive Law
Aug 3, 20132 min read
Why it’s Okay not to Apply for Clerkships
Despite having my heart set on various other areas of law, I succumbed to peer pressure and applied to several firms, but I wish I had someo
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Survive Law
Aug 2, 20131 min read
Melbourne Uni Launches High Court Blog
The decisions of the High Court of Australia are the focus of a new blog created by the University of Melbourne’s law faculty. Inspired by s
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Survive Law
Aug 1, 20133 min read
How to Stand Out in the Job Market
“I’ll think about it later…” This is what I hear many students say when I ask them about their plans for after graduation. The idea of what
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Survive Law
Aug 1, 20131 min read
King & Wood Mallesons Announces UK Merger
King & Wood Mallesons and UK law firm SJ Berwin have put an end to months of speculation, announcing that the firms will merge later thi
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Survive Law
Jul 31, 20131 min read
Legal Aid Turns 40
Legal Aid in Australia is celebrating its 40th birthday this month. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC, Chief Justice of the Victorian Supreme
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Survive Law
Jul 31, 20132 min read
On Campus vs Online: Tips for your First Online Subject
The days of lectures not being recorded and lectures slides being presented with overhead projectors are fortunately long gone. At most univ
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Survive Law
Jul 30, 20132 min read
Starting Law School? Tips for your First Semester of Law
I’m now in my second last year of my law degree and looking back on my course, there are a few things that I wish I had done differently...
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Survive Law
Jul 30, 20131 min read
New Tribunal to Improve Access to Justice in South Australia
A new tribunal dealing with a broad range of administrative legal issues is being set up in South Australia to take pressure off the state’s
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Survive Law
Jul 27, 20132 min read
Book Review: 101 Reasons to Kill all the Lawyers by Paul Brennan
If you’ve had one of those weeks (or semesters) where you’ve found yourself thinking that this law caper is horribly dry and dull, 101 Reaso
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Jul 26, 20132 min read
Taking a Post-Uni Gap Year
One of my professors told me that the best time to be in university is when the economy is in recession. While there’s some debate about the
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