Author: purelydicta

Talking ‘Racial Justice’

May 19—2026

Uncategorized

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Finding queer justice in theatre, art and language beyond the law

Mar 5—2026

equality, LGBTQIA, People, Society

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Ultra Vires and Ultra Entertaining: The Wild World of Australian Legal TV

Sep 2—2025

Hobbies, Law School, People

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Left Out of the Will: The Important Elective MLS Doesn’t Offer.

Aug 30—2025

Law School

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Introducing MLS’s First Student Group Dedicated to Supporting People Experiencing Homelessness

Aug 26—2025

Donation, equality, Law School, Mental Health, Politics, Society

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NSFW: Not Suitable for the Web

Aug 14—2025

Law School, Politics, Society

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From Cans to Community to a Greater Activism

Aug 7—2025

Donation, Law School, People, Society

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Equality Way

Aug 1—2025

equality, Law School, LGBTQIA

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What Does it Mean to Belong in Law?

Jul 27—2025

Careers, Law School, Literature, Mental Health, People, Politics

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What Percentage of Clerks Receive Graduate Offers from a Particular Commercial Law Firm’s Clerkship Program?

Jul 23—2025

Careers, Internship, Law School

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Law School Lunch Crisis: Which Sushi Roll Wins?

Jul 21—2025

Food, Hobbies, Law School, People

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Application over Memorisation – Learning to Learn and the Parallels between Law and Maths

Jun 3—2025

Law School, People

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Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Legal Costs Will Absolutely Ruin You

May 17—2025

Law School, People, Politics

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On the Centrality of Convention: The Implicit Social Contract of Communal Refrigerators and Other Cultural Commentary

May 14—2025

Food, Law School, Literature, People

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Democratic Ethos, Sausages, and Historic Mandates

May 4—2025

Law School, People, Politics

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Growing your Legal Network? Here’s Where to Start

Apr 21—2025

Careers, Internship, Law School

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Professor Profiles: Samuel J. Woff – Commercial Construction Connoisseur and Contract Law Cognoscente

Apr 8—2025

Law School, People

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Overprivileged: the case for reform

Sep 16—2024

Politics

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The Legal Fate of On-Demand-Platform Workers in Indonesia: Should Indonesia learn from The UK and Australia?

Aug 22—2024

Uncategorized

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MAN-MADE by Tracey Spicer: Is artificial intelligence threatening social progress?

Aug 3—2024

Uncategorized

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Don’t Tread on Me, Minister Rowland

Aug 1—2024

Uncategorized

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Phishing for legislative solutions in a threat-filled world: The Australian cybersecurity landscape

Aug 1—2024

Uncategorized

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Woolworths pays fine of $1.2 million for underpayments

May 20—2024

People

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Exams are looming… incoming study tips!

May 20—2024

Law School

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Where’s the best Banh Mi around campus?

Apr 18—2024

Uncategorized

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Where’s the best Banh Mi around campus?

Apr 18—2024

Uncategorized

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Paul Keating: avoiding Indigenous platitudes in modern Australia

Aug 11—2023

Politics

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The Acknowledgment Project

Jul 27—2023

Content List

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REVIEW: Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie – Theatre as an avenue for social change.

Jul 18—2023

Uncategorized

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STS Exam Study Tips: Second and Third Year Subjects

May 23—2023

Law School

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STS Exam Study Tips: First Year Subjects

May 23—2023

Law School

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Sound and fury at ‘woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors’ – justified?

Apr 20—2023

Law School

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Safe Spaces for Women and Gender Diverse Individuals – MLS and Beyond

Apr 4—2023

Law School

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Audax at fidelis: Why don’t we have a federal Human Rights Act?

Mar 28—2023

Law School

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“If The Law Were Otherwise”: Sami v Minister for Home Affairs A New Symbol of Hope?

Mar 23—2023

Politics

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Industrial Action at the University of Melbourne: How it Might Impact You

Mar 16—2023

Uncategorized

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Lawyers without Borders @ MLS -Join LWOB!

Mar 7—2023

Law School

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Getting to know – Matthew Harding, Dean of the Melbourne Law School

Feb 28—2023

Law School

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Refugee advocacy @MLS – Join Law Students for Refugees!

Feb 22—2023

Uncategorized

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Write for Purely Dicta

Feb 20—2023

Uncategorized

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Intersectional support @MLS – The WAGDI Portfolio’s plans for 2023.

Feb 17—2023

Uncategorized

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Entertainment law @MLS – Join FAME!

Feb 16—2023

Uncategorized

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Academic Journals @MLS – Join MULR and MJIL!

Feb 15—2023

Uncategorized

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Purely Dicta Rewind – The Quality of Justice

Feb 14—2023

Uncategorized

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Human Rights @MLS – Join the Human Rights Community.

Feb 13—2023

Uncategorized

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International Law @MLS – Join the Global Law Students Association!

Feb 10—2023

Uncategorized

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Sport and the law @MLS – Join the Melbourne Sports Law Association

Feb 9—2023

Uncategorized

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The Careers Directors’ plans for 2023!

Feb 8—2023

Careers

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Activities Plans for 2023

Feb 6—2023

Law School

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Editor’s Note – Welcome Class of 2025

Feb 3—2023

Law School

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REVIEW: ‘Just Mercy’ — A lesson in missing the point

Jan 3—2023

Literature, People, Politics

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Beauty and the New Beast: Health, Wealth and Beauty Marketing

Aug 11—2022

Hobbies, Law School, People, Politics

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Studiability Series: Stovetop

Mar 31—2022

Food, Hobbies, Law School

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The commercialisation of IWD: the way forward is back.

Mar 15—2022

Politics

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Is this a game to you? The under-explored legality of mods and user-generated content

Oct 19—2021

Hobbies, Politics

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The Law and Institutional Opacity

Oct 1—2021

Law School, Politics

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Does Work Work? The Case for Universal Basic Income and Fresh Economic Thinking

Sep 27—2021

People, Politics

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A Trip Back in Time: How People Talked About Bisexuality 20 Years Ago

Sep 21—2021

People

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A Response to “Publius”: Fallopian Tubes & Fallacies

Sep 8—2021

Law School, People, Politics

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The Quality of Justice

Sep 4—2021

Careers, Law School, Politics

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I think, therefore I theorise: An introduction to first-person academia in feminist and queer literature

Aug 24—2021

Literature, People, Politics

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The Productivity Doctrine: Here’s your permission to do nothing

Aug 20—2021

Law School, Mental Health, People

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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and the “Instinctive Weapon of the Vested Interest”

Jun 26—2021

Politics

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Professor Profiles: Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts

May 19—2021

Law School, Mental Health, People

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BIPOC Spotlight Series: Zahraa Albadri

May 8—2021

Law School, People

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The human right to sexual pleasure: why feeling good is revolutionary

Apr 17—2021

Politics

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Endemic: How anti-Asian racism is entrenched in Australian legislation

Apr 17—2021

Politics

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Semester One 2021 Content List

Mar 9—2021

Content List

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The Inaugural LSS Mass Interview

Sep 30—2020

Law School

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Why Every Day Should Be “R U Ok Day”

Sep 16—2020

Mental Health

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Going Behind the Grind with Neeharika and Paige

Sep 10—2020

Careers, Hobbies, Law School

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Chemicals-Free September

Sep 1—2020

Food, Hobbies

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“Ordinary People, Extraordinary Fashion” – Matthew Li on founding MODA9

Aug 26—2020

People

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Room With A View: Showgirl Talks Showbiz

Aug 19—2020

Law School, Music

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What I learned from online learning

Aug 5—2020

Law School, Mental Health

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You have exams, and we have tips to help you smash them

May 27—2020

Law School

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Judge Vasta and the Need for Greater Judicial Accountability

May 20—2020

Politics

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We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and the Law – vol 3

May 13—2020

Alumni, Careers

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An opportunity to renew our relationship with our Planet

May 5—2020

Politics

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We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and the Law – vol 2

Apr 29—2020

Careers, Uncategorized

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We Need to Talk: Press Freedom and The Law – vol 1

Apr 22—2020

Alumni, Careers, Politics

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The time without punchlines

Apr 8—2020

Uncategorized

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A transformative experience with the Aurora Internship Program

Apr 1—2020

Careers, Internship, Travel

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Quashing Quarantine: 10 tips for studying & working from home

Mar 25—2020

Law School, Mental Health

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An Ode to EBLA

Mar 18—2020

Law School, Travel

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2020 LSS President’s Welcome

Mar 4—2020

Law School

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THE UNI SQUARE SKATE SPOT

Oct 30—2019

Uncategorized

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Scales of Justice- Truth, Trauma and the Criminal Law

Oct 23—2019

Uncategorized

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Faces Behind the Law: Native Title — Question 1

Oct 15—2019

Uncategorized

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Institutions in International Law

Oct 11—2019

Uncategorized

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Combining Your Passions On A Palette: Peter Turner

Sep 25—2019

Uncategorized

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Three Friends, Three Perspectives, One Subject: Global Lawyer

Sep 17—2019

Uncategorized

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Women of MLS: Jeannie Paterson

Sep 11—2019

Uncategorized

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LAWLESS: Rebecca Poynton

Sep 6—2019

Uncategorized

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Law and Legal Practice in Asia- Interning at HRLN

Sep 4—2019

Uncategorized

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Art by Tzeyi Koay

Aug 29—2019

Uncategorized

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Launching a New Student Society: Lawyers without Borders

Aug 26—2019

Uncategorized

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Third Culture Kids: Tess Roussel

Aug 23—2019

Uncategorized

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Law and Legal Practice in Asia: a Q&A

Aug 19—2019

Uncategorized

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Blood Rock: Renzo Tweedie

Aug 8—2019

Uncategorized

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LAWLESS: Elizabeth Kuiper

Jul 31—2019

Uncategorized

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Faces Behind The Law: Native Title

Jun 13—2019

Uncategorized

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Women of MLS: Alana Kushnir

May 27—2019

Uncategorized

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TOP 5 FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT HRAFF

May 1—2019

Uncategorized

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LAWLESS: Delinna Ding

Apr 29—2019

Uncategorized

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Women of MLS: Molina Swarup Asthana

Apr 8—2019

Uncategorized

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International Women’s Day Panel: Mairead O’Connor

Mar 29—2019

Uncategorized

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Reflections from EBLA: Emily Tang, Jessica Flatters, William Hately & Liam O’Callaghan

Mar 11—2019

Uncategorized

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2019 LSS President’s Welcome: Hannah Gordon

Mar 4—2019

Uncategorized

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Women of MLS: Anne-Marie Neagle

Sep 16—2018

Alumni, Careers, Law School

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Women of MLS: Libbi Gorr

Sep 14—2018

Alumni, Careers, Law School

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Women of MLS: Stacey Steele

Sep 12—2018

Alumni, Careers, Law School

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Women of MLS: Morgan Koegel

Sep 10—2018

Alumni, Careers, Law School

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Women of MLS: Pip Nicholson

Sep 10—2018

Alumni, Careers, Law School

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Things I’ve Learnt from (Nearly) 3 Years of Law School: Ayu Maylinda

Sep 7—2018

Careers, Law School

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I Have Been WRONGED: Maddy Pittle

Sep 5—2018

Law School

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21 Questions: The Honourable David Habersberger QC

Aug 31—2018

Alumni, Careers, Law School

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Coffee Review – Where to find the best ¾ almond magic with half a raw sugar stirred anti-clockwise around MLS: Matt Gough

Aug 28—2018

Food, Law School

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Global Lawyer, The Subject of a Lifetime: Britt Baker

Aug 16—2018

Law School, Travel

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Tokyo Food Guide: Nick Worth

Aug 7—2018

Food, Travel

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The Birds and the Bees: Edison Ponari

Jul 31—2018

Hobbies

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Ride the Wave, Try Consulting: Crista Gekas

Jul 15—2018

Law School

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Balancing Mental Health and Community Legal Work: Siane Richardson

May 21—2018

Internship, Law School, Mental Health

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Reconnecting With Our Surroundings: Charlie Schaffer

May 9—2018

Photography, Travel

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21 Questions: Ian Malkin

May 7—2018

Law School

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160 Years at Melbourne Law School

Apr 30—2018

Law School

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Judging the World University Debating Championship in Mexico: Edmond Stewart

Apr 18—2018

Law School, Travel

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A Legal Internship at the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner: Sverre Gunnersen

Mar 19—2018

Law School

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2018 LSS President’s Welcome: Gus Viola

Mar 19—2018

Law School

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My Summer; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tunnel

Apr 18—2017

Uncategorized

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Music Review- Adele Live 2017

Apr 18—2017

Uncategorized

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Economics and Business Law in Asia: Studying Abroad in Shanghai and Hong Kong

Apr 18—2017

Law School

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Neverest 2017

Apr 18—2017

Uncategorized

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Four REALLY unconvincing reasons why you should get into magic.

Apr 18—2017

Uncategorized

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Getting Down with the Fitzroy Learning Network

Apr 18—2017

Uncategorized

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Interview with Tess McGuire, Founder of ‘Watch Us Lead’

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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Fight for the Minimum Wage

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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LAWS50059: Gibbons, United Nations, and human trafficking

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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Law Camp Report

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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Life and Photography: Images by Stefan Ladd

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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Heavy Gigging

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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Volunteer Work as a Paralegal at Fitzroy Legal Service

Mar 12—2017

Uncategorized

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Punters and Dragons: Because Stereotypes are Make-Believe

Nov 18—2016

Uncategorized

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The Country We Love to Hate

May 15—2016

Uncategorized

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Tam’s Artwork

May 15—2016

Uncategorized

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Best Kept Secrets of the Melbourne Brunch Scene

Apr 20—2016

Food

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The Trouble With Democracy

Apr 20—2016

Politics

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Book Review: Middlemarch by George Elliot

Apr 20—2016

Literature

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The Unbearable Lightness of Kanye

Apr 18—2016

Music

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