Careers, Study and Wellbeing with Katie Cowan
Dear Katie – Should I take tax law?
Dear Katie – Should I take tax law? “Does it matter what subjects I take at law school? Everyone says to do tax law, is this true?” – Lost and Confused, 23 Oh my gosh, please promise me Read more…
Law
Artificial Intelligence Learning to Discriminate
by Michael Bidwell, The Legal Forecast September is Brisbane Pride Month celebrating its 28th year supporting the LGBTI+ community. As an openly gay lawyer, Editor in Chief for The Legal Forecast and Events Coordinator for Pride in Law, I wanted Read more…
Careers, Study and Wellbeing with Katie Cowan
Welcome to Dear Katie
Hello, readers. Welcome to the inaugural article in this advice column for law students and graduates. I am pretty damned delighted to be here.
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Proofreader Friend
One thing that your lecturers and advisers never tell you is that your essay can be improved dramatically just by having a friend proofread it. This doesn’t mean that they can go in and actually change your wording and rewrite Read more…
Law
Legal Design Thinking
Legal Design Thinking By Erika Ly, The Legal Forecast There is immense curiosity in the concept of ‘design thinking’ in the innovation literature. Yet, for a phrase so ubiquitous, it is often misunderstood by lawyers. In practice, design thinking Read more…
Life
Stick with Your Hobbies
by Zsenai Logan One of the hardest things about study is the feeling that you have to give everything else up to do well. It always feels like a choice. Should I go hang out with my friends or should Read more…
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The legal research process
By Mary-Rose Russell, an extract from Legal Research in New Zealand Components of the legal research process The legal research process comprises a number of discrete steps, each of which calls upon skills which law students are expected to acquire, whether Read more…
Law
Eyes in the Sky: Threats to Notions of Privacy
"The predominant issue with the current framework is that while it imposes a ‘transparency’ framework and a consent requirement for the collection of sensitive information..."
Life
Lauren Yeo – My USA College Exchange
"I asked a woman at Walmart where the rubbish bins were on my first day in the US, she looked at me like I was speaking another language"
Law
AI and Legal Liability: What Happens When AI Goes Wrong?
"Self-learning AI poses interesting and difficult questions for the law. In particular, who is legally liable when self-learning AI goes wrong? The programmers? The users? Or even the AI itself?"
