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Issue 8, Semester 1
By Cam Doig Melbourne Law School has two class problems. One: class is invisible to most children of privilege here. Two: some MLS students are doing so well, they’ve decided their classmates don’t need lecture recordings. Issue 8, Semester 1
By Timothy Sarder “Eat fat and prosper!”, its advocates shout down from their covens to the uninitiated – the Ketogenic diet (keto) has arrived. In truth, keto has been around a while – first introduced in the 1920s as a treatment for epilepsy. And the diet’s defence of fat as being better for us than we might think is not without merit. Issue 8, Semester 1
By Valerie Ng On April 9th, Indigenous leaders and constitutional law experts convened a panel at Melbourne Law School on the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a sincere proclamation of unceded Indigenous sovereignty. They pieced together the issues and motivations surrounding Indigenous sovereignty in Australia, and in particular, the effects of the Uluru statement. Two of the panellists, Indigenous advocates Thomas Mayor and Jill Gallagher, were part of the process surrounding the statement, and spoke powerfully as to its importance. Issue 8, Semester 1
By Elizabeth Georgiou The day that will be etched into the MLS history books. The day when faith was lost. A day of broken promises and broken dreams. The day of the Property Interim Exam. Was it really this dramatic? Issue 8, Semester 1
By Yujie Du Editor's note: The print edition didn't mention which negotiation competition the author participated in. For clarity, this article refers to the competition [NAME REDACTED] which was run by the Melbourne China Law Society, not the LSS. This competition was sponsored by [NAME REDACTED]. The cached webpage for the competition can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y8pfw6qj I competed in the MCLS [NAME REDACTED] competition and lost, and I’m pissed. I got angry not because I lost, but because I felt I lost with no reasonable justifications and different judges gave inconsistent feedback. This isn’t because of our opponents or judges; the competition seems to be unfair. It is not framed as strictly as other competitions. In mooting, the rules are clear: you have a set pattern of written and oral submissions, after which you basically know whether you win or lose at the moot. For negotiation? No such thing. the negotiation judges have too much discretion. Of course they want to be objective, but under such arrangements , they subconsciously bring with them their personal judgments to the competition. By Dinu Kumarasinghe
Issue 7 MLS has a lot going for it. You may not have been aware, but we are Australia’s Number 1 Law School! We have a piano! We have a poodle! We’ve got a nice lawn to laze and lunch on between 1pm and 2.15pm. We even have a revolving door to hate! We also have some pretty stellar academics floating around who sometimes give lectures (+ wine + cheese) By Charlie McMillan
Issue 7 Clerkship Available! I did that just to catch your eye. But it is kind of related to what is below. Kind of. It was a fantastic opportunity recently when law firms from Hong Kong came to Melbourne Law School to sell their internships and clerkships. I thought it a compelling chance to gaze into the exciting future beyond law school. By Ying Wong
Issue 7 Am I a bad person for hating straws and the people who use them? Every time I see a friend or someone I respect using a straw, or a plastic cup, or some other form of single-use disposable plastic that is easy to replace with a reusable alternative, I shudder a little. My brain immediately whirrs, attempting justify why they might be using one. Are they a child? Have they lost sensation in their hands? Are they afraid to stain their teeth? Does this make it okay? By Adrienne Ringin
Issue 7 You spin me right round Baby right round And a record will be made A compilation of the sounds By Janelle Koh
Issue 7 I set foot into the law school one sunny day before the start of semester, and was immediately overcome with a sense of grandeur. One, because I had just been slowly guided into the law school by the paternalistic hands of the revolving doors (see our revolving door editorial for more De Minimis opinions on the matter), but also because someone was midway through a five minute concerto movement. The sound of it echoed and reverberated around the ground floor, which, with its high and well-articulated ceilings, made it annoyingly great for acoustics. The music comes courtesy of this classy little black Yamaha, tucked away in a corner of the ground floor, next to this glass-cased piece of rock that is probably of some intense but unknown importance. ‘Free to play’, the sign on it reads. Is it, though? IS IT? By Francis Stagg
Issue 6 At present, there exists throughout the law school a movement to make classes available to students via online recordings. In this brief report, I will not defer to the merits of such a process; most of them are obvious and stem from the benefits of being able to access material instantaneously. Rather, I seek to identify the dangers that are inherent in a move towards “online education.” By Scott Draper
Issue 6 Political activists are reporting incredible success incorporating sport-related language into their campaigns. The method involves the use of sport lingo and metaphors in order to demonstrate the importance of broader social and political issues. This comes after a study by the Department of Important Studies (DIS) which found that significantly more attention is given to sport-related news than to actual issues. By Beini Wu
Issue 6 We all seem to be doing quite a bit of waiting around every day. From waiting for a train, waiting for a friend, to waiting at a restaurant, this is something that seems to happen more often than ever. By Jackson Willows
Issue 6 In a class a couple of weeks back, we were discussing the area of legislation regarding who could become an Australian citizen and under what circumstances. There was a quote on the board from Peter Dutton, the Minister for Home Affairs. In it was the suggestion that, under a new policy, Australia would not allow criminals to become citizens. One of the criminal acts targeted was female genital mutilation (FGM). By Andrea Ko
Issue 6 It may have been purely coincidental that the final MSO Sidney Myer Music Bowl concert of 2018 fell on Valentine’s Day, but they did indeed play on the theme well. The host of the evening took us on a journey through the love stories underlying pieces by Strauss, Martucci, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, and when the music began, we lost ourselves in the art created by the virtuosic soloists and the orchestra itself. |
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