Category: University

This announcement will be of interest primarily to fellow law students. In preparation for next week’s examination, I have uploaded the entirety of my Equity and Trusts notes and summaries to this website for your perusal and edification. It is a somewhat unfortunate tradition that most law students keep their materials to themselves. In an… Read more →

The public debate is an oratory tradition of some standing at the University of Melbourne. I like to think that it brings out the best in interactive (meatspace) scholarship, providing a framework for reflection and catalysing further discussion of the issues. Why this sudden diversion into matters speechification? This Thursday, the Melbourne University Debating Society… Read more →

Three years down, two to go. It seems odd, upon reflection, that my time at university has passed so rapidly, and puzzling that my colleagues and I will so imminently be set loose upon the world. And vaguely disconcerting is the realisation that, for all the hard work, study and learning of the past three… Read more →

My first summer clerkship concluded yesterday. Today comprised a frenzied assortment of tasks — answering emails, backing up data, packing, cycling — mostly done simultaneously or in interleaving fashion (read: not very efficiently). Tomorrow I leave for an overseas holiday. The presence of my new camera notwithstanding, this is to be a technology-free holiday. Consistent… Read more →

With the university semester finally completed, it is with mild curiosity that I plunge headlong into the world of corporate law. For four weeks, I will metamorphose into a memorandum-producing, file-juggling, coffee-brewing automaton. Hopefully, not too many of these stories will eventuate: The two weeks before the summer program[me] starts is always a whirlwind of… Read more →

Well, it’s that time of year again: examinations and other such unmentionables are upon the Australian law student populace once more. I find myself cursed with a rather unfortunate timetable: system design, property, constitutional and administrative law on consecutive days. One week from now, I will be opening my constitutional law paper and writing as… Read more →

Exams are upon us, and so, in the midst of fervent revision, a bounty of doctrines, methodologies, principles, and case law is accumulated and recorded. I make available my semester’s notes for other students or interested persons to use in their revision or personal study. The writings, in 12 parts, serve as a casebook-style introduction… Read more →

In the days preceding the start of the Melbourne University semester, my sedulous to-do list has grown in length at a rate much faster than that at which I could check off completed items with a perfunctory grin of satisfaction. Indeed, as unfinished summer projects and crates of anti-static storage boxes (don’t ask) lie strewn… Read more →

Now that the university semester has finished, great bounties of news should flow unimpeded for the next three months. In order to increase the breadth of coverage, fewer lengthy discourses about the items will be attempted. Instead, I will attempt to publish an article (or three) every few weeks, which will cover issues in more… Read more →

Owing to some minor disruptions at Melbourne’s equivalent of Grand Central Station, I alighted upon a different train to travel home from university this afternoon. Perhaps it’s just a measure of the banality of my everyday existence to say that I was utterly captivated by the novelty of this experience: new trackside sights, stations of… Read more →