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TWO CLASS PROBLEMS

24/4/2018

 
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.

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The Keto Fad

24/4/2018

 
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.


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Student Report: The Uluru Statement from the Heart

24/4/2018

 
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.

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On the property interim

24/4/2018

 
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?

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Negotiation Competition: Inherently unfair?

24/4/2018

 
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.

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Going out for lunch

17/4/2018

 
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)

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Insecure Overachiever

17/4/2018

 
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.

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Local Moralist Shakes Fist At People Who Use Plastic Straws

17/4/2018

 
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?

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An Ode to a Revolving Door

17/4/2018

 
By Adrienne Ringin

Issue 7

You spin me right round
Baby right round
And a record will be made
A compilation of the sounds

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Reviews by ME (managing editor): The Piano

17/4/2018

 
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?

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The Uberisation of Education

10/4/2018

 
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.”

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The Sport Scandal Effect

10/4/2018

 
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.

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The Art of Waiting

10/4/2018

 
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.

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Self-censorship, name-calling and political polarisation

10/4/2018

 
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). ​

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Review: From MSO, With Love

10/4/2018

 
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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