Summer Semester
So I've decided to take a summer course, primarily because I'm behind on 3 subjects and will have to stay an extra semester if I don't pick some more up along the way. Having transferred from...
View ArticleCitations between nations
One of the pitfalls of being a first year law student is mastering legal citation. I was lucky enough to pick it up fairly quickly, and in fact preferred the Australian Guide to Legal Citation's (AGLC)...
View Article"International law" vs international law
I've got an assignment for my International Public Law course wherein I have to locate two articles involving some aspect of international law, critique them and come to some sort of conclusion on what...
View ArticleKirby's Dreamland
Justice Kirby is a pretty cool guy, and something of a hero among law students. Compared to the other High Court judges, Kirby's judgments are well presented, and use plain and ordinary words as much...
View ArticleOptional Assessment
For Public International Law we've got an optional assessment. It was due about an hour ago. It's optional in that if you don't hand it in, the exam absorbs its percentage of the mark. The assessment...
View ArticleSemester 1
Semester 1 lineup looks pretty good. I've got the 6 unit Contracts, 3 unit Australian Constitutional Law and the 3 unit Medical Law and Ethics. Whenever I tell someone I'm doing Medical Law the...
View ArticleColonising the Moon
Alright, so about a week ago Newt Gingrich, a contender for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America, announced his intention to set up a base on the moon. His words were...
View ArticleExam time
I'm sort of lucky when it comes to exams. I never majorly stress out over them. It also sucks. It means I can't find the motivation to study for them. I've got an exam in three days (public...
View ArticleExam over
So that concludes my exam and Public International Law. It was a damn good course. It's a shame I got a bit lazy at the end, I wish I'd gone to the last week of lectures and tutorials. Still, I reckon...
View ArticleCharacterisation
Characterising Commonwealth laws is actually really fun. When you cut through all the judicial jargon, it's such a simple and elegant process. These are the processes that make law interesting.
View ArticleMooting
I'm taking part in my university's open moot this year. It's probably not the best idea I've ever had, having only studied about a quarter of the possible areas of law it can be on. Thankfully the...
View ArticleJust making stuff up
Let's have a chat about the rule in Stilk v Myrick. This is the rule that says variations to a contract that affect only one party's performance are not enforceable because there's no consideration. In...
View ArticleTriage
Due to a combination of laziness and work commitments (5 nights a week, damn you) I find myself unable to do all of the uni work I actually want to get done. This is probably entirely my fault, but I'm...
View ArticleArticle 3
So recently I became obsessed with Marvel comics and I inevitably sunk a lot of time into them. I chose a point in 2006 to start reading with, and proceeded to read all the Avengers (New, Secret, Dark,...
View ArticleCrawling over the finish line
So super excited to nearly be done with uni. I'm so fantastically disappointed at the completely ghastly disappearing act my ambitions and motivation performed several weeks ago, and I'm keen as a bean...
View ArticleArticle 1
I'm so totally re-engergised for law right now that I felt like I had to start posting on my actual law school blog (complete with pretentious Latin name) rather than my Tumblr, which has a few hundred...
View ArticleFreedom of Association under the Australian Constitution
For a forthcoming essay I’m going to argue that freedom of association is protected as a corollary to the implied freedom of political communication because of the way the Lange test works, or at the...
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