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5 Tips for Reluctant First-time Mooters
For the charismatic and quick-witted among us, mooting is a chance to let your inner Harvey Spector shine. For the rest of us, mooting is a

Survive Law
Mar 23, 20182 min read


Getting into 2nd Year Law
Law School is like cooking for the first time. You have no idea what you’re doing, and it’s a bit of a mess. Added to that is the pressure t

Head Editor
Nov 9, 20172 min read


How to Tackle Exams like a Seasoned Pro
Hearing the word “exams” being thrown around is enough to create fear and loathing in the minds of all law students. Add to that other words

Survive Law
Nov 6, 20173 min read


Eat, Pray, Law: What's It like to Go on Exchange?
The prospect of exchange sounds exciting, but sometimes you need just that little bit more certainty before you can make a concrete decision

Survive Law
Oct 23, 20173 min read


6 Apps That Can Really Ramp Up Your Study
The age of an impossible compromise between overpriced but beautiful Kikki K diaries and cheap but vanilla Officeworks planners is over. Che

Survive Law
Sep 20, 20174 min read


Book Review: Constitutional Law Case Summaries, 6th ed
Call me a millennial, but I respond to every musty textbook of legal case summaries with the same unoriginal droll: ‘Couldn’t I just...

Survive Law
Aug 18, 20173 min read


Book Review: Family Law Case Summaries, 6th Ed, ed. Duncan Holmes, 2016
Textbooks are as much a part of student life as being overtired, broke or hung-over (and sometimes all at once). Each semester we can spend

Survive Law
Aug 11, 20173 min read


7 Subscriptions Every Law Student Needs ASAP
Law school can be overwhelming. To alleviate the chaos, there are some subscriptions that will save you time, money and make law student lif

Survive Law
Jul 20, 20174 min read


So your group member is a ghost - who you gonna call?
So I decided to do one of those ghost hunting tours the other day. It was freezing, the sky was pitch Blackstone pitch black and the wind w

Survive Law
Jun 5, 20172 min read


Tips from a tutor: the final weeks of semester
Tutors appear much like Batman: cloaked (or caped) in secrecy, appearing seconds before class and leaving long after you’ve headed to the Un

Survive Law
May 22, 20172 min read


(Mind)Mapping your way through law school
One of the most dangerous stereotypes of law students is this arduous image. You know what I mean: the daily grind of study and classes; the

Survive Law
Mar 17, 20172 min read


End of Holiday Mode: Getting Back into Study Mode
Groan. “The holidays went too quick.”“I didn’t catch up on sleep enough...

Survive Law
Feb 14, 20172 min read


You’ve Accepted Your Offer to Study Law, What's Next?
So you’ve turned up to enrolment day at your new law school – and it is just an information overload! Well I’m here to tell that it’s going

Survive Law
Feb 7, 20172 min read


Cheating on Your Law Degree
Being a law student is like being part of an exclusive club. We live for clerkship season, attending Kirby’s book signings, complaining abou

Survive Law
Jan 27, 20172 min read


Stop, Collaborate and Listen
Source // giphy While the Australian government continues to try to block access to certain torrenting sites, and corporate big-wigs...

Raychel Plath
Jan 24, 20173 min read


Welcome to Summer School
Well done, you’ve made it through another year of law school. Walking out of that last exam for the year can feel like a dream. Not you thou

Survive Law
Dec 24, 20162 min read


Weighing Up the Pros and Cons of Online Classes
With the rise of online course offerings for law, most of us are fortunate to have the choice of whether to go into campus for study, or do

Survive Law
Nov 3, 20163 min read


Practising law: More than just being a lawyer
When I graduated law school earlier this year, as part of my usual delayed process of unpacking significant life moments, I began to conside

Survive Law
Sep 14, 20163 min read


PLT in Cambodia
Uninspired by your PLT prospects? What if I told you you could complete your work experience component in Cambodia? Read on for Chloe's

Survive Law
Aug 22, 20163 min read


How to choose electives
Whilst I’m sure, like me you can’t get enough of constitutional law and the rest of the Priestley clan, doing electives is one of the best p

Survive Law
Jul 4, 20163 min read
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