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Ultra Vires and Ultra Entertaining: The Wild World of Australian Legal TV
What Does it Mean to Belong in Law?
Beyond the Lectures: Real-World Lessons from Victoria Legal Aid
Left Out of the Will: The Important Elective MLS Doesn’t Offer.
Introducing MLS’s First Student Group Dedicated to Supporting People Experiencing Homelessness
NSFW: Not Suitable for the Web
From Cans to Community to a Greater Activism
Equality Way
What Percentage of Clerks Receive Graduate Offers from a Particular Commercial Law Firm’s Clerkship Program?
Law School Lunch Crisis: Which Sushi Roll Wins?
The Mushroom Murder and the Spectacle of Female Guilt: A Gendered Analysis of Media, Crime, and Justice
Application over Memorisation – Learning to Learn and the Parallels between Law and Maths
Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Legal Costs Will Absolutely Ruin You
On the Centrality of Convention: The Implicit Social Contract of Communal Refrigerators and Other Cultural Commentary
Democratic Ethos, Sausages, and Historic Mandates
Growing your Legal Network? Here’s Where to Start
Professor Profiles: Samuel J. Woff – Commercial Construction Connoisseur and Contract Law Cognoscente
Overprivileged: the case for reform
The Legal Fate of On-Demand-Platform Workers in Indonesia: Should Indonesia learn from The UK and Australia?
MAN-MADE by Tracey Spicer: Is artificial intelligence threatening social progress?
Don’t Tread on Me, Minister Rowland
Phishing for legislative solutions in a threat-filled world: The Australian cybersecurity landscape
Woolworths pays fine of $1.2 million for underpayments
Exams are looming… incoming study tips!
Where’s the best Banh Mi around campus?
Where’s the best Banh Mi around campus?
Paul Keating: avoiding Indigenous platitudes in modern Australia
The Acknowledgment Project
REVIEW: Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie – Theatre as an avenue for social change.
STS Exam Study Tips: Second and Third Year Subjects
STS Exam Study Tips: First Year Subjects
Sound and fury at ‘woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors’ – justified?
Safe Spaces for Women and Gender Diverse Individuals – MLS and Beyond
Audax at fidelis: Why don’t we have a federal Human Rights Act?
“If The Law Were Otherwise”: Sami v Minister for Home Affairs A New Symbol of Hope?
Industrial Action at the University of Melbourne: How it Might Impact You
Lawyers without Borders @ MLS -Join LWOB!
Getting to know – Matthew Harding, Dean of the Melbourne Law School
Refugee advocacy @MLS – Join Law Students for Refugees!
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Intersectional support @MLS – The WAGDI Portfolio’s plans for 2023.
Entertainment law @MLS – Join FAME!
Academic Journals @MLS – Join MULR and MJIL!
Purely Dicta Rewind – The Quality of Justice
Human Rights @MLS – Join the Human Rights Community.
International Law @MLS – Join the Global Law Students Association!
Sport and the law @MLS – Join the Melbourne Sports Law Association
The Careers Directors’ plans for 2023!
Activities Plans for 2023
Editor’s Note – Welcome Class of 2025
REVIEW: ‘Just Mercy’ — A lesson in missing the point
Beauty and the New Beast: Health, Wealth and Beauty Marketing
Studiability Series: Stovetop
The commercialisation of IWD: the way forward is back.
Is this a game to you? The under-explored legality of mods and user-generated content
The Law and Institutional Opacity
Does Work Work? The Case for Universal Basic Income and Fresh Economic Thinking
A Trip Back in Time: How People Talked About Bisexuality 20 Years Ago
A Response to “Publius”: Fallopian Tubes & Fallacies
The Quality of Justice
I think, therefore I theorise: An introduction to first-person academia in feminist and queer literature
The Productivity Doctrine: Here’s your permission to do nothing
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and the “Instinctive Weapon of the Vested Interest”
Professor Profiles: Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts
BIPOC Spotlight Series: Zahraa Albadri
The human right to sexual pleasure: why feeling good is revolutionary
Endemic: How anti-Asian racism is entrenched in Australian legislation
Semester One 2021 Content List
The Inaugural LSS Mass Interview
Why Every Day Should Be “R U Ok Day”
Going Behind the Grind with Neeharika and Paige
Chemicals-Free September
“Ordinary People, Extraordinary Fashion” – Matthew Li on founding MODA9
Room With A View: Showgirl Talks Showbiz
What I learned from online learning
You have exams, and we have tips to help you smash them
Judge Vasta and the Need for Greater Judicial Accountability
We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and the Law – vol 3
An opportunity to renew our relationship with our Planet
We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and the Law – vol 2
We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and The Law – vol 1
The time without punchlines
A transformative experience with the Aurora Internship Program
Quashing Quarantine: 10 tips for studying & working from home
An Ode to EBLA
2020 LSS President’s Welcome
THE UNI SQUARE SKATE SPOT
Scales of Justice- Truth, Trauma and the Criminal Law
Faces Behind the Law: Native Title — Question 1
Institutions in International Law
Combining Your Passions On A Palette: Peter Turner
Three Friends, Three Perspectives, One Subject: Global Lawyer
Women of MLS: Jeannie Paterson
LAWLESS: Rebecca Poynton
Law and Legal Practice in Asia- Interning at HRLN
Art by Tzeyi Koay
Launching a New Student Society: Lawyers without Borders
Third Culture Kids: Tess Roussel
Law and Legal Practice in Asia: a Q&A
Blood Rock: Renzo Tweedie
LAWLESS: Elizabeth Kuiper
Faces Behind The Law: Native Title
Women of MLS: Alana Kushnir
TOP 5 FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT HRAFF
LAWLESS: Delinna Ding
Women of MLS: Molina Swarup Asthana
International Women’s Day Panel: Mairead O’Connor
Reflections from EBLA: Emily Tang, Jessica Flatters, William Hately & Liam O’Callaghan
2019 LSS President’s Welcome: Hannah Gordon
Women of MLS: Anne-Marie Neagle
Women of MLS: Libbi Gorr
Women of MLS: Stacey Steele
Women of MLS: Morgan Koegel
Women of MLS: Pip Nicholson
Things I’ve Learnt from (Nearly) 3 Years of Law School: Ayu Maylinda
I Have Been WRONGED: Maddy Pittle
21 Questions: The Honourable David Habersberger QC
Coffee Review – Where to find the best ¾ almond magic with half a raw sugar stirred anti-clockwise around MLS: Matt Gough
Global Lawyer, The Subject of a Lifetime: Britt Baker
Tokyo Food Guide: Nick Worth
The Birds and the Bees: Edison Ponari
Ride the Wave, Try Consulting: Crista Gekas
Balancing Mental Health and Community Legal Work: Siane Richardson
Reconnecting With Our Surroundings: Charlie Schaffer
21 Questions: Ian Malkin
160 Years at Melbourne Law School
Judging the World University Debating Championship in Mexico: Edmond Stewart
A Legal Internship at the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner: Sverre Gunnersen
2018 LSS President’s Welcome: Gus Viola
My Summer; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tunnel
Music Review- Adele Live 2017
Economics and Business Law in Asia: Studying Abroad in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Neverest 2017
Four REALLY unconvincing reasons why you should get into magic.
Getting Down with the Fitzroy Learning Network
Interview with Tess McGuire, Founder of ‘Watch Us Lead’
Fight for the Minimum Wage
LAWS50059: Gibbons, United Nations, and human trafficking
Law Camp Report
Life and Photography: Images by Stefan Ladd
Heavy Gigging
Volunteer Work as a Paralegal at Fitzroy Legal Service
Punters and Dragons: Because Stereotypes are Make-Believe
The Country We Love to Hate
Tam’s Artwork
Best Kept Secrets of the Melbourne Brunch Scene
The Trouble With Democracy
Book Review: Middlemarch by George Elliot
The Unbearable Lightness of Kanye
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