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2012: The Legal Year in Review
It’s been a big year of legal news, with plenty of major cases decided, a new Australian law school announced, and Justices Gageler and...
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Survive Law
Dec 21, 20122 min read
Road Trip Games for Law Students
The end of year break often brings on long and painful car trips with younger siblings, corny music and possibly a pet with a sudden flatule
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Survive Law
Dec 19, 20127 min read
Celebrities and the Law in 2012
After a hectic 2011, it’s been another busy year for the lawyers of the rich and famous, with plenty of high profile legal disputes keeping
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Survive Law
Dec 19, 20122 min read
What I Learnt at Law School this Year
While the majority of law students will spend the next few weeks determinedly draining accumulated facts, statutes and legal arguments from
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Head Editor
Dec 18, 20122 min read
So, how’s uni going?
Christmas is around the corner, summer barbeques are a weekly event and exam results have just been released. It’s that time of year when la
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Survive Law
Dec 17, 20123 min read
Summer Clerk Diary: Bethany-Kate Lewis, Australian Taxation Office
The last place I ever expected to be an intern at was the Australian Taxation Office. This assumption was admittedly made on the basis of my
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Survive Law
Dec 15, 20122 min read
Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those classic novels that everyone knows the name of, but not necessarily the story. Set in the
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Survive Law
Dec 14, 20122 min read
Mind your Step: Should you be Worried about Your Digital Footprint?
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WordPress, Myspace. Yes, I have them all. Well, almost...
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Survive Law
Dec 13, 20122 min read
Summer Clerk Diary: Cameron Ritchie, Middletons
It’s clerkship season again and summer clerks from around Australia will be sharing their work experiences in Survive Law’s annual Summer Cl
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Survive Law
Dec 12, 20122 min read
Dealing with Disappointing Marks
Over the years I have had my fair share of disappointing marks, and although admittedly I may have shed a tear or two, I have developed a fe
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Marie Hadley
Dec 12, 20122 min read
The Wisdom of Elle Woods
Elle Woods, the bubbly blonde Beverly Hills sorority girl who won our hearts in the 2001 film Legally Blonde, has inspired many law students
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Survive Law
Dec 11, 20122 min read
Adapting to Life as a Law Student
It seems like it was only yesterday when I was walking into my very first lecture, with nothing but the soundtrack to Jaws playing in my hea
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Survive Law
Dec 8, 20122 min read
One to 100: Sharing the Commonwealth Law Reports
Law students are all too familiar with the tedium of photocopying page after page of resources in the law library. But imagine if your task
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Survive Law
Dec 8, 20122 min read
Law-Talking Guys: Quotes about Law and Justice
Although you’re on holidays there are no guarantee that you’ll be able to switch off your law student brain. In fact, even though exams only
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Survive Law
Dec 7, 20123 min read
Tales of a Truant: A Semester Without Classes
I am surely not alone in my inability to attend the first week of classes. I prefer to avoid the dryness of introductory speeches and admini
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Survive Law
Dec 3, 20122 min read
Sightseeing for the Travelling Law Student
Hooray! Summer holidays are here! It’s time for road trips and overseas holidays, for broadening horizons (and trying local beers). Because
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Survive Law
Dec 1, 20122 min read
Getting into Summer Holiday Mode
For some people, summer holidays start the minute the exam supervisor says ‘pens down’ for the final time. For others, it’s not so easy. Hav
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Head Editor
Nov 30, 20122 min read
What to expect at Summer School
Ah, summer school. That joyous continuation of study over the summer months. Spending long hours curled up over textbooks, inside and hidden
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Survive Law
Nov 29, 20123 min read
Ten Lessons Learnt During a Busy Semester
Some semesters are tougher than others, and the semesters where you take on extra shifts at work, join a few intense extra-curricular activi
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Survive Law
Nov 28, 20122 min read
My Model United Nations Experience
It’s four o’clock in the United Nations. The World Health Organisation has been debating its response to the outbreak of swine flu for two d
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