Law blogs are a useful way to access high quality legal analysis, supplementing more established scholarly resources; in this list you will find blogs that regularly post case summaries, news and legal analysis. This list is a little shorter than my earlier list (over at amicae curiae), it is more of my personal picks, these are mainly scholarly and I omitted many that are not apparently being updated. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. I have included the twitter names of the blogs, or their administrators, where possible.
Legal Education/Legal Profession
Amicae Curiae: “Girlfriends of the Court” Covers Women, Law, Legal Education and includes posts on legal and lawyering issues
Kat Gallow: Legal academic Kate Galloway writes on “property law, women and law, and contemporary legal issues, as well as legal education”. Earlier work is at Curl. @katgallow
Law Radio: Tune in to this blog and podcast to discover the unexpected world of law and its impact on society; and the effect of society on the practice and learning of law. @lawradioshow produced by @katgallow & @mscastan
Pleagle Trainer: Kris Greaves is a senior lecturer in professional education, he posts on lawyering, legal education, clinical legal education, practical legal training, teaching, learning, practice research, and scholarship. @pleagletrainer
Law and Justice: La Trobe Law School Blog: News, events, research and commentary from staff and students in the school, edited by law lecturer Marc Trabsky. @latrobelaw
LIV Young Lawyers Blog: Law Institute of Victoria’s Young Lawyers Blog.@LIVYoungLawyers
S|M| i |L|E – Social Media in Legal Education: a collaborative resource to promote and support the integration of social media into legal education. @socmedinlegaled
ADRResearchNetwork: Maintained by the ADR Research Network, a group of dispute resolution academics from across Australia. @adrresearch
Wellness For Law: “A community of legal academics, practitioners and students who are committed to: first, addressing the high levels of psychological distress experienced in law; and second, promoting wellness at law school, in the legal academy, and in the profession.” Maintained by legal academics. @wellnessforlaw
Survive Law: “Here you’ll find plenty of tips and tricks to survive those never-ending readings, obfuscating essay questions, killer exams and assessments, plus discussions of mental health and well-being, unorthodox and straight-shooting careers in law, and those all important ongoing odes to highlighters, coloured tabs, textbook burning and coffee to flow black through your veins.” @survivelaw
Jade World: Jade World is a site “which aggregates the world of blogging and tweeting”, it currently covers 40 blogs which feature legal commentary. @barnetjade
Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat: “A link blog for students and teachers of VCE Legal Studies, sharing news and legal professional updates, by Rob Corr. Useful for law students and teachers, and others interested in Australian legal news. @ignojuris
Public Law/Human Rights
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Blog: “Commentary on human rights from Castan Centre Directors, Associates, staff members and special guests” maintained by the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University. @Castancentre. See also Castan Centre Global Interns Blog: Follows Castan Centre for Human Rights Law ‘Global Interns’ students as they work for some of the world’s preeminent human rights law organisations.
Julian Burnside: Collected links, speeches and resources by Julian Burnside QC. @julianburnside
The Murphy Raid: Thoughts on security, terrorism and human rights, with a focus on Australia. Authored by Andrew Zammit. @andrew_zammit
Art and Human Rights: A tumblr about the intersections of art and human rights. Maintained by a human rights law professor.
AusPubLawBlog: the Australian Public Law Blog is a collaborative blogging project bringing you expert commentary and analysis on recent cases and legislative change as well as updates on the latest research and scholarship in Australian public law. Administered by academics at the Gilbert and Tobin Public Law Centre. @auspublaw
Public Law Research Community: “updates on the work of the public law research community at the [Adelaide] Law School” and “explanations of, and views on, recent events, including new cases, legislation and policies, and upcoming court challenges”. Maintained by Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide.
Constitutional Critique: Constitutional critique and commentary on current issues, maintained by Professors Anne Twomey and Helen Irving of the Constitutional reform Unit at University of Sydney.
See also A Woman’s Constitution: Reflections on constitutional law and scholarship from a woman law professor’s perspective, maintained by Professor Helen Irving.
Opinions On High: The Melbourne Law School High Court Blog provides commentary on and analysis of recent High Court decisions, general information about the Court, as well as marking significant activities and events at the Court. @opinionsonhigh
Legal Theory in Australia: This blog covers legal theory and philosophy of law publications and events with relevance to Australia. Posts are by Dr Jonathan Crowe, University of Queensland. @Drjoncrowe
Antony Green’s Election Blog: ABC’s election expert, Antony Green, writes authoritively on Australian election law and practice. @antonygreenabc
Therapeutic Justice in the Mainstream: Promote the use of Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) approaches in mainstream legal settings through a variety of activities. @tjmainstream
Australian Surrogacy and Adoption Blog: “Surrogacy and adoption law in Australia by Stephen Page, one of Australia’s leading surrogacy lawyers”.
See also Australian Gay and Lesbian Law Blog: Australian gay and lesbian law issues by an LGBTI friendly Brisbane lawyer. All about discrimination, parenting, property settlement, same sex domestic violence,same sex law issues. @stephenpagelaw
Media and law
Peter J Black’s Freedom to Differ: “A blog that speaks freely about law, politics and the internet” by Peter Black, legal academic. @peterjblack
Journlaw: Professor Mark Pearson’s commentary on legal aspects of journalism, social media and free speech issues. @journlaw
MsLods: Leanne O’Donnell, a senior lawyer with expertise in commercial litigation, copyright, telecommunications and social media maintains a weekly round up of law and technology news. @mslods
My earlier post that focusses on public law blogs is It’s more than the vibe; blogging the Constitution.
Are there other blogs you follow? add them in the comments below.
Melissa Castan, ‘30 Australian Law Blogs to Follow’ on Melissa Castan (18 September 1015) <https://melissacastan.wordpress.com/>
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