Learning Law

Anthony Marinac has had a varied legal career in Australia, including stints as a barrister, as partner in a boutique law firm, as Counsel Assisting in Queensland's Office of the State Coroner, as a commissioned legal officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and as a Senate Committee Secretary in the Department of the Senate, Parliament House Canberra. He has taught at CQUniversity and James Cook University in Australia, and now teaches at the National University of Management in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He operates one of Australia's largest legal education channels on YouTube, with more than 1200 videos online, and more than 3 million views. Asmi Wood is Distinguished Professor of Law and Director (Indigenous) at the Law School at the Australian National University. He was made a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2017, and was the recipient of the Australian Awards for University Teaching ('AAUT') Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Education in 2015 and the ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 and 2023. Zara Bending is an award-winning university lecturer and wildlife conservationist based in Sydney. She is a two-time Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award recipient, and the awardee of an AAUT national citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 'for inspiring the next generation of legal scholars, advocates, and changemakers through holistic mentorship and transformative learning design'. Her parallel career in the NGO sector includes over a decade's work for the Jane Goodall Institute as a Board Director, Roots & Shoots Leader, Global Advocacy Committee Member, and Resident Expert on Wildlife Crime and International Law. Dr Bending's expertise has been recognised in parliamentary inquiries and criminal prosecutions for wildlife trafficking, and by public service and judicial education bodies in Australia and abroad. Jennifer Nielsen is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University. She is an experienced legal educator and active researcher, committed to social equity and justice. She is a member of Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council's Justice & Healing Team, funded by the federal Attorney-General's National Justice Reinvestment Program. The Team is tasked with designing a community-led, systems change Justice and Healing strategy with and for Quandamooka peoples. Jennifer is a founding member of the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre in Lismore and longstanding member of its Committee of Management. Adrian Evans is Emeritus Professor at Monash Law School, as well as a recipient of the Monash Vice-Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has extensive teaching experience, legal practice and research histories in clinical case supervision, moral development and legal ethics. Adrian has published on ethics for lawyers and law firms, the notion of 'quality' in clinical experience, client attitudes to lawyers, the values of legal practitioners, monitoring and controlling lawyer corruption, and the ethical environment, in which lawyers' fidelity compensation is addressed locally and internationally. He is currently exploring the emerging links between legal ethics, value systems in artificial intelligence and climate defence.

• Part I. Law, Lawyers and Justice: 1. Welcome to the law; 2. Legal history: the story so far; 3. Indigenous peoples and the law; 4. Equality, equity and law; 5. Our broad system of law; Part II. The Parliament and Statute Law: 6. The house on the hill: Australia's Commonwealth Parliament; 7. Statutes and delegated legislation; 8. Understanding and interpreting statutes; 9. Applying the modern approach to statutory interpretation; Part III. The Courts and the Cases: 10. Our system of courts; 11. The common law and equity; 12. Reading a case judgment; Part IV. Success as a Law Student: 13. Legal research: finding the law; 14. Answering legal problem questions; 15. Using IRAC in more complicated scenarios; 16. Writing persuasive essays; 17. Other forms of assessment; Part V. Lawyers and Their Community: 18. The ethical lawyer; 19. Becoming a lawyer and legal practitioner.