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Coming from Behind: Catching up in Time for Exams
Sometimes the promises made in first week about doing all the readings, starting assignments early and getting to every class just aren’t po

Survive Law
Oct 4, 20123 min read


Using iPads and Other Tablets for Study
I have a weakness for the latest and greatest tech products. With my 4.7-inch phone screen, and iPad, I find it quite easy to access my uni

Survive Law
Oct 2, 20123 min read


Train your Brain: Memory Tips and Tricks
Here are just a few tips on how to prepare for exams based on what psychology tells us about memory...

Survive Law
Sep 26, 20123 min read


Reflections on Writing a Legal Research Thesis
A clever legal argument may sneak up on you some day, and you may be fated to endure the delightful tedium of a research thesis. To write a

Survive Law
Sep 25, 20124 min read


Book Review: Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
For anyone just starting out, Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury is the negotiation bible.

Survive Law
Sep 15, 20123 min read


How to Prepare for a Tutorial at the Last Minute
Needed to catch up on the latest episode of Suits? Participated in a procrastibaking marathon? Spent more than a few minutes giggling at mem

Survive Law
Sep 11, 20122 min read


A Lack of Consideration: Dealing with the Challenges of Group Work
Admittedly, there are fewer group assignments in law than in other degrees, but even if you’ve been able to avoid tutorial group presentatio

Survive Law
Sep 7, 20122 min read


Ten Ways to Improve your Class Presentations
Remember when it was totally uncool to know how to do stuff on a computer? These days, you’ll be left behind if you don't know how to sh

Survive Law
Aug 30, 20123 min read


How to Survive Studying Law by Distance
Studying off campus can be a very appealing option: there are no classes to attend and you can study when it suits you. It sounds pretty cru

Survive Law
Aug 21, 20123 min read


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

Survive Law
Aug 8, 20123 min read


In Defence of the Stay at Home Law Student
I admit it. I’m one of those law students. The kind that disappears after the first week and only reappears for the last lecture of semester

Survive Law
Aug 4, 20122 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..

Survive Law
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,

Survive Law
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

Survive Law
Jul 20, 20122 min read


How to stay motivated for a supplementary exam
Sometimes the universe just hates you and conspires to make your life as difficult as possible. I spent weeks preparing for my exams at the

Survive Law
Jun 25, 20124 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

Survive Law
Jun 19, 20124 min read


Studying Law in Regional Australia
Hi there! A moment please, while I put down my Akubra and corn husk. There, that’s better. What were we going to talk about? Oh, that’s righ

Survive Law
Jun 9, 20122 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

Survive Law
Jun 6, 20124 min read


Sentenced to Study
You have been charged with ‘omission to study all semester,’ and the Prosecution appears to have a significant amount of evidence against yo

Marie Hadley
Jun 3, 20122 min read
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