Footnotes (by the Sydney University Law Society)

This is a bonus episode from last year, featuring an interview with Daniel Emmerig and Lucy Zimdahl from Allens about a day in the life of a litigation lawyer. Lucy is a Senior Associate in the Disputes & Investigations team and Daniel is a Graduate Lawyer in the Disputes & Investigations team. In this episode, they discuss what a normal day at work looks like, the process of commercial li...

CONTENT WARNING: abortion In September 2019, the NSW Parliament passed a historic bill that would decriminalise abortion in NSW.  That change has been met with huge controversy, raising debates about women’s rights and the interaction between law and morality.  In this episode of Footnotes, we want to delve into abortion reform from a legal, medical and social standpoint to understand ho...

Thanks to Allens for making this episode possible. You can listen to their podcast, Allens Confidential, wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is a BONUS episode, recorded last year, with Felicity Rourke . Felicity is a partner at Allens, specialising in all aspects of environment and planning law. In this episode, our interviewer Liv talks to Felicity about how she got to where she is, the...

(Content warning: bullying and sexual harassment) This episode is Part 2 of a series about tackling bullying and sexual harassment in the law. It's a panel recorded earlier this year at an event that SULS hosted, in conjunction with the International Bar Association (IBA). Panellists include:  - Kate Allman , online editor of the LSJ magazine, who wrote a groundbreaking feature story on bully...

*Content warning: bullying and sexual harassment* In 2018, the International Bar Association undertook the largest ever survey on bullying and sexual harassment in the law , and compiled over 7000 responses from 135 countries. They found that 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men had been bullied in the workplace, and the majority of incidents of bullying and sexual harassment were never reported.&nbsp...

Gun laws. Those words carry a weight like no other. Mass shootings have been hitting the headlines more often - and so has scrutiny of how countries respond. Australia's gun reforms, enacted after Port Arthur, have been widely credited with preventing mass shootings for over 20 years. But what exactly are those laws? And when tragedies shake a society to its core, what are the next steps? Professo...