Survive Law
Confessions of an Academic Self-Saboteur
Many years ago, an insecure wreck of a first year law student dared to dream of the day when only one semester would stand between her and g
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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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Survive Law
Jul 27, 20122 min read
Extra-Curricular Activities: Should I Bother?
On top of the usual semester workload of case readings, textbooks, lectures and tutorials, most of us need to keep up a part time job to pay
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Survive Law
Jul 27, 20123 min read
The Best Extra-Curricular Activities for Law Students
Although our lives are textbooks, the constitution, post-its and memories of the time we met Justice Kirby, even law students need to take t
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Survive Law
Jul 26, 20122 min read
Law Addiction
Law is part of everyday life, but for those of us reading these pages, it can be all consuming. In fact, I think I may have a problem. I’m a
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Survive Law
Jul 24, 20123 min read
The Study Contract
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, two ambitious law students decided to walk down the yel-law brick road..
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Survive Law
Jul 24, 20122 min read
Options for Buying and Selling Law Textbooks Online
The first week of semester is always expensive. Luckily, there are a number of websites where you can buy discount or secondhand law texts,
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Survive Law
Jul 23, 20122 min read
If I could Time Travel: Reflections on PLT
If I could step into a career time warp and travel back three years to have a conversation with my law student self, it would go something l
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Survive Law
Jul 21, 20121 min read
You know you’re a law student when…
Ever worry that you’ve picked up a few law student quirks in your time at uni? Sure, your non-law friends look at you kind of funny sometime
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Survive Law
Jul 20, 20123 min read
Work Experience with Queensland’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
I knew I wanted to be a public prosecutor from an early age, and since starting law I frequently stalked the Office of Public Prosecutions i
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Survive Law
Jul 19, 20122 min read
Technology in Law Schools
When I first started university back in the early 2000s, bringing your laptop to university was a somewhat rare thing. PowerPoint was someth
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Survive Law
Jul 19, 20123 min read
Meeting Kirby J
While Justin Bieber’s visit causes excitement among Australian girls, law students at the Queensland University of Technology were left in a
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Survive Law
Jul 17, 20122 min read
An Ode to the Law Student Parent
Rock-a-bye baby In the tree top When the wind blows The cradle will rock If the bough breaks The cradle will fall And Mummy/Daddy will sue t
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Survive Law
Jul 11, 20122 min read
There’s no such thing as a ‘typical’ JD student
Us JD students are a random bunch. We come from all walks of life and often have strange and wonderful stories about to how we ended up in l
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Survive Law
Jul 11, 20123 min read
Relaxation… The Law Student Way
To motivate myself to study during the exam period, I would think about mid-year break. My daydreams usually involved a lot of sunshine and
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Survive Law
Jul 10, 20123 min read
What if I don’t like my clerkship?
So, through some slight exaggerations on your resume, a fluke or strange planetary alignment, you've landed a clerkship. Everyone congra
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Survive Law
Jul 9, 20124 min read
Caffeine Overload
I’m a law student, but I’m also “sensitive to caffeine”. Yes, you read that right. I’m a walking contradiction...
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Survive Law
Jul 7, 20122 min read
I'm Sorry...
To my housemates, friends and family, I would like to take this opportunity to say I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you have to put with me during
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Survive Law
Jul 3, 20121 min read
The Results are in…
Finally! It’s the end of semester, and you’re revelling in those magical days between the end of exams and the release of results. You’ve re
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