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My Oxford Experience
In between recovering from final exams and submitting clerkship applications, I spent my winter break completing a short study programme on

Survive Law
Aug 19, 20122 min read


Free Online Study Resources
So you still haven’t made it to the uni bookshop, or maybe you’re finding that your new textbook is so confusing that it may as well have be

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Aug 8, 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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Jul 25, 20123 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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Jul 24, 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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Jul 20, 20122 min read


How to get Honours in Law
This is an article for all you later-year students currently trying to work out the mysterious world of the law school honours system. Here

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Jun 19, 20124 min read


How to Survive your First Law Exam
There are a few things I wish I'd known about university exams, particularly those of the law school variety, before I sat them for the

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Jun 6, 20124 min read


The Law Student Tool Kit
The law student's weapons of choice are usually strong comprehension skills, a keen sense of the broad picture, and a powerful reaction

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Jun 1, 20124 min read


The Most Important Minutes: Planning your Time in Exams
I believe that the most important minutes of the exam are the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes. These are the crucial moments when y

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May 29, 20123 min read


How to Live in the Library: A Law Student’s Guide to Coping in Silence
With exams approaching, the inevitable cramming sessions are just around the corner. While you can always study at home, university librarie

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May 27, 20122 min read


Assignment Advice from Your Marker
I recently finished my law degree and crossed over to the ‘dark side,’ working at a university and marking assignments, essays and exams.

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May 24, 20122 min read


Didn’t get the grade you wanted? Approaching Lecturers and Appealing Marks
Final marks for those assignments that you slaved over are starting to come your way. Sometimes you’re pleasantly surprised, but sometimes y

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May 22, 20122 min read


How to Prepare for Exams in Four Weeks
So it’s about four weeks until the start of exams and you’re four weeks behind on readings? Don’t panic! Your fate is not yet sealed. Here a

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May 17, 20122 min read


Study Tips and Tricks for Exams
Here are some of my friends' practical and unorthodox study tips...

Survive Law
May 16, 20122 min read


Getting Admitted: Practical Legal Training, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and Traineeships
Perhaps you've seen final year law students or recent graduates wandering around muttering acronyms like PLT and GDLP. At some stage ev

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May 15, 20122 min read


How to write an answer guide for law exams
Walking in to my first substantive law exam, I was sure I was ready. I had a painstakingly-prepared set of notes that covered every principl

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May 14, 20122 min read


4 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making
As law students we spend most of our time occupied with reading and writing and our future careers will be solely concerned with deriving me

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May 9, 20123 min read


Going Global: Should I go on International Exchange?
My study exchange adventure took me to University of Lapland, Finland in 2011. When I got home I signed up to tell other students at my univ

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May 4, 20123 min read


Is the Pen Mightier than the Computer?
Yes, the pen trumps the sword, but the glowing, half-eaten apples and tap-tapping in my tutorials suggests that it’s losing the battle with

Marie Hadley
May 3, 20122 min read


Top 5 Things That Your Law Tutor Hates
At long last we've found a law tutor willing to tell us what they love and hate about our classroom antics and approaches to assignments

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Apr 9, 20126 min read
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