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Finding queer justice in theatre, art and language beyond the law
November 4, 2025
Ultra Vires and Ultra Entertaining: The Wild World of Australian Legal TV
November 4, 2025
Left Out of the Will: The Important Elective MLS Doesn’t Offer.
November 4, 2025
Introducing MLS’s First Student Group Dedicated to Supporting People Experiencing Homelessness
November 4, 2025
NSFW: Not Suitable for the Web
November 4, 2025
From Cans to Community to a Greater Activism
November 4, 2025
Equality Way
November 4, 2025
What Does it Mean to Belong in Law?
November 4, 2025
What Percentage of Clerks Receive Graduate Offers from a Particular Commercial Law Firm’s Clerkship Program?
November 4, 2025
Law School Lunch Crisis: Which Sushi Roll Wins?
November 4, 2025
Application over Memorisation – Learning to Learn and the Parallels between Law and Maths
November 4, 2025
Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Legal Costs Will Absolutely Ruin You
November 4, 2025
On the Centrality of Convention: The Implicit Social Contract of Communal Refrigerators and Other Cultural Commentary
November 4, 2025
Democratic Ethos, Sausages, and Historic Mandates
November 4, 2025
Growing your Legal Network? Here’s Where to Start
November 4, 2025
Professor Profiles: Samuel J. Woff – Commercial Construction Connoisseur and Contract Law Cognoscente
November 4, 2025
Overprivileged: the case for reform
November 4, 2025
The Legal Fate of On-Demand-Platform Workers in Indonesia: Should Indonesia learn from The UK and Australia?
November 4, 2025
MAN-MADE by Tracey Spicer: Is artificial intelligence threatening social progress?
November 4, 2025
Don’t Tread on Me, Minister Rowland
November 4, 2025
Phishing for legislative solutions in a threat-filled world: The Australian cybersecurity landscape
November 4, 2025
Woolworths pays fine of $1.2 million for underpayments
November 4, 2025
Exams are looming… incoming study tips!
November 4, 2025
Where’s the best Banh Mi around campus?
November 4, 2025
Where’s the best Banh Mi around campus?
November 4, 2025
Paul Keating: avoiding Indigenous platitudes in modern Australia
November 4, 2025
The Acknowledgment Project
November 4, 2025
REVIEW: Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie – Theatre as an avenue for social change.
November 4, 2025
STS Exam Study Tips: Second and Third Year Subjects
November 4, 2025
STS Exam Study Tips: First Year Subjects
November 4, 2025
Sound and fury at ‘woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors’ – justified?
November 4, 2025
Safe Spaces for Women and Gender Diverse Individuals – MLS and Beyond
November 4, 2025
Audax at fidelis: Why don’t we have a federal Human Rights Act?
November 4, 2025
“If The Law Were Otherwise”: Sami v Minister for Home Affairs A New Symbol of Hope?
November 4, 2025
Industrial Action at the University of Melbourne: How it Might Impact You
November 4, 2025
Lawyers without Borders @ MLS -Join LWOB!
November 4, 2025
Getting to know – Matthew Harding, Dean of the Melbourne Law School
November 4, 2025
Refugee advocacy @MLS – Join Law Students for Refugees!
November 4, 2025
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November 4, 2025
Intersectional support @MLS – The WAGDI Portfolio’s plans for 2023.
November 4, 2025
Entertainment law @MLS – Join FAME!
November 4, 2025
Academic Journals @MLS – Join MULR and MJIL!
November 4, 2025
Purely Dicta Rewind – The Quality of Justice
November 4, 2025
Human Rights @MLS – Join the Human Rights Community.
November 4, 2025
International Law @MLS – Join the Global Law Students Association!
November 4, 2025
Sport and the law @MLS – Join the Melbourne Sports Law Association
November 4, 2025
The Careers Directors’ plans for 2023!
November 4, 2025
Activities Plans for 2023
November 4, 2025
Editor’s Note – Welcome Class of 2025
November 4, 2025
REVIEW: ‘Just Mercy’ — A lesson in missing the point
November 4, 2025
Beauty and the New Beast: Health, Wealth and Beauty Marketing
November 4, 2025
Studiability Series: Stovetop
November 4, 2025
The commercialisation of IWD: the way forward is back.
November 4, 2025
Is this a game to you? The under-explored legality of mods and user-generated content
November 4, 2025
The Law and Institutional Opacity
November 4, 2025
Does Work Work? The Case for Universal Basic Income and Fresh Economic Thinking
November 4, 2025
A Trip Back in Time: How People Talked About Bisexuality 20 Years Ago
November 4, 2025
A Response to “Publius”: Fallopian Tubes & Fallacies
November 4, 2025
The Quality of Justice
November 4, 2025
I think, therefore I theorise: An introduction to first-person academia in feminist and queer literature
November 4, 2025
The Productivity Doctrine: Here’s your permission to do nothing
November 4, 2025
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and the “Instinctive Weapon of the Vested Interest”
November 4, 2025
Professor Profiles: Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts
November 4, 2025
BIPOC Spotlight Series: Zahraa Albadri
November 4, 2025
The human right to sexual pleasure: why feeling good is revolutionary
November 4, 2025
Endemic: How anti-Asian racism is entrenched in Australian legislation
November 4, 2025
Semester One 2021 Content List
November 4, 2025
The Inaugural LSS Mass Interview
November 4, 2025
Why Every Day Should Be “R U Ok Day”
November 4, 2025
Going Behind the Grind with Neeharika and Paige
November 4, 2025
Chemicals-Free September
November 4, 2025
“Ordinary People, Extraordinary Fashion” – Matthew Li on founding MODA9
November 4, 2025
Room With A View: Showgirl Talks Showbiz
November 4, 2025
What I learned from online learning
November 4, 2025
You have exams, and we have tips to help you smash them
November 4, 2025
Judge Vasta and the Need for Greater Judicial Accountability
November 4, 2025
We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and the Law – vol 3
November 4, 2025
An opportunity to renew our relationship with our Planet
November 4, 2025
We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and the Law – vol 2
November 4, 2025
We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and The Law – vol 1
November 4, 2025
The time without punchlines
November 4, 2025
A transformative experience with the Aurora Internship Program
November 4, 2025
Quashing Quarantine: 10 tips for studying & working from home
November 4, 2025
An Ode to EBLA
November 4, 2025
2020 LSS President’s Welcome
November 4, 2025
THE UNI SQUARE SKATE SPOT
November 4, 2025
Scales of Justice- Truth, Trauma and the Criminal Law
November 4, 2025
Faces Behind the Law: Native Title — Question 1
November 4, 2025
Institutions in International Law
November 4, 2025
Combining Your Passions On A Palette: Peter Turner
November 4, 2025
Three Friends, Three Perspectives, One Subject: Global Lawyer
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Jeannie Paterson
November 4, 2025
LAWLESS: Rebecca Poynton
November 4, 2025
Law and Legal Practice in Asia- Interning at HRLN
November 4, 2025
Art by Tzeyi Koay
November 4, 2025
Launching a New Student Society: Lawyers without Borders
November 4, 2025
Third Culture Kids: Tess Roussel
November 4, 2025
Law and Legal Practice in Asia: a Q&A
November 4, 2025
Blood Rock: Renzo Tweedie
November 4, 2025
LAWLESS: Elizabeth Kuiper
November 4, 2025
Faces Behind The Law: Native Title
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Alana Kushnir
November 4, 2025
TOP 5 FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT HRAFF
November 4, 2025
LAWLESS: Delinna Ding
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Molina Swarup Asthana
November 4, 2025
International Women’s Day Panel: Mairead O’Connor
November 4, 2025
Reflections from EBLA: Emily Tang, Jessica Flatters, William Hately & Liam O’Callaghan
November 4, 2025
2019 LSS President’s Welcome: Hannah Gordon
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Anne-Marie Neagle
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Libbi Gorr
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Stacey Steele
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Morgan Koegel
November 4, 2025
Women of MLS: Pip Nicholson
November 4, 2025
Things I’ve Learnt from (Nearly) 3 Years of Law School: Ayu Maylinda
November 4, 2025
I Have Been WRONGED: Maddy Pittle
November 4, 2025
21 Questions: The Honourable David Habersberger QC
November 4, 2025
Coffee Review – Where to find the best ¾ almond magic with half a raw sugar stirred anti-clockwise around MLS: Matt Gough
November 4, 2025
Global Lawyer, The Subject of a Lifetime: Britt Baker
November 4, 2025
Tokyo Food Guide: Nick Worth
November 4, 2025
The Birds and the Bees: Edison Ponari
November 4, 2025
Ride the Wave, Try Consulting: Crista Gekas
November 4, 2025
Balancing Mental Health and Community Legal Work: Siane Richardson
November 4, 2025
Reconnecting With Our Surroundings: Charlie Schaffer
November 4, 2025
21 Questions: Ian Malkin
November 4, 2025
160 Years at Melbourne Law School
November 4, 2025
Judging the World University Debating Championship in Mexico: Edmond Stewart
November 4, 2025
A Legal Internship at the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner: Sverre Gunnersen
November 4, 2025
2018 LSS President’s Welcome: Gus Viola
November 4, 2025
My Summer; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tunnel
November 4, 2025
Music Review- Adele Live 2017
November 4, 2025
Economics and Business Law in Asia: Studying Abroad in Shanghai and Hong Kong
November 4, 2025
Neverest 2017
November 4, 2025
Four REALLY unconvincing reasons why you should get into magic.
November 4, 2025
Getting Down with the Fitzroy Learning Network
November 4, 2025
Interview with Tess McGuire, Founder of ‘Watch Us Lead’
November 4, 2025
Fight for the Minimum Wage
November 4, 2025
LAWS50059: Gibbons, United Nations, and human trafficking
November 4, 2025
Law Camp Report
November 4, 2025
Life and Photography: Images by Stefan Ladd
November 4, 2025
Heavy Gigging
November 4, 2025
Volunteer Work as a Paralegal at Fitzroy Legal Service
November 4, 2025
Punters and Dragons: Because Stereotypes are Make-Believe
November 4, 2025
The Country We Love to Hate
November 4, 2025
Tam’s Artwork
November 4, 2025
Best Kept Secrets of the Melbourne Brunch Scene
November 4, 2025
The Trouble With Democracy
November 4, 2025
Book Review: Middlemarch by George Elliot
November 4, 2025
The Unbearable Lightness of Kanye
November 4, 2025
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