Free interactive study platform
A structured approach to learning the law.
The JD made plainer, more engaging and hopefully a little less mysterious. I am covering as many subjects as I can. It is a work in progress, so tell me what would work better for you.
- 93Topic guides live
- 946Practice problems & drills
- 7Core subjects live
If you have this link, I am lucky enough to be tutoring you through the ITAS program this semester. I am building this site as a tool to teach and guide you through your subjects, both in our sessions and while you study on your own.
Please keep the link to yourself and to other Murrup Barak law students. It is not otherwise available online.
The subjects
Core subjects
Every compulsory JD subject across the Priestley 11. Seven are live end to end: topic guides, drills and full exam scenarios with Pass and H1 model answers and examiner's comments. The rest are being built out subject by subject.
Constitutional Law
13 guides · 100 drills · 18 exam scenarios
The heads of power, the federal limits and the freedoms, with full exam scenarios and three mid-semester papers.
Start Constitutional →Criminal Law & Procedure
9 guides · 129 drills · 15 exam scenarios
Homicide, theft, complicity and defences, element by element, with the traps examiners set around each.
Start Criminal Law →Equity & Trusts
12 guides · 103 drills · 16 exam scenarios
From equity and conscience through the express trust to Barnes v Addy and tracing, built out end to end.
Start Equity & Trusts →Corporations Law
10 guides · 100 drills · 20 exam scenarios
Directors' duties, insolvent trading and shareholder actions, element by element.
Start Corporations →Principles of Public Law
19 guides · 95 drills · 10 exam scenarios
Rule of law, separation of powers and statutory interpretation: the foundations every later subject assumes.
Start Public Law →Remedies
8 guides · 85 drills · 15 exam scenarios
Damages, equitable remedies and choosing the right relief for the wrong in front of you.
Start Remedies →Administrative Law
11 guides · 105 drills · 15 exam scenarios
Judicial review end to end: jurisdiction, standing, the grounds, jurisdictional error and remedies.
Start Administrative Law →In development
Eight more core subjects
Legal Theory, Obligations, Contracts, Torts, Property, Evidence & Proof, Disputes and Ethics, in the same guides-plus-practice format.
Electives
Elective subjects
Seventeen electives, each with its own page. Cybercrime Law has full module guides; worked problems for the rest are on the way.
The method
Six shapes, one twist
Almost every legal rule takes one of six shapes. The shape tells you what your paragraph has to do before you know any of the law: a checklist makes you run every item, a keyring makes you try every key, the scales make you weigh the pans.
And the shapes repeat across every subject, so nothing you learn is wasted. The checklist you drill on theft in Criminal Law is the same checklist you meet in insolvent trading in Corporations. Learn the six once and every new rule, in every new subject, arrives half learned: each subject you study makes the next one faster.
Around the shapes sits the four-step routine for a whole answer: spot the issue, state the rule, apply it to the facts, conclude. Every rule in the subject guides carries its shape as a tag, so the recognition builds as you go.
Study that fits your day
Minutes rather than hours
You do not need a free evening to make progress. Everything here fits the time you actually have. Twenty minutes of testing yourself moves you further than twenty minutes of re-reading notes.
Drills · a few minutes each
One issue, a short fact pattern. Write two sentences or just think it through, then reveal the Pass answer, the H1 answer and the examiner's comment. Ten drills fit inside a coffee.
Guides · one sitting
Each topic guide gives you the idea, the authorities and the trap without the lecture or the fifty pages of reading. Read one on the tram before the seminar rather than after it.
Exam scenarios · when you have an hour
Full exam-style hypotheticals with part-by-part model answers and examiner's comments, for when you can sit down and write properly under exam conditions.
Learn the law systematically.
Pick a subject and step through the interactive method that shows you exactly what earns the marks.