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Author: dgstewart

1993 Graduation Rugby Jersey

Wondering about this site’s colours? In 1993, the MSLS committee decided to create a rugby jumper for the first graduating class. One of the deciding factors was to have something which did not incorporate UWA’s (Blackstone Society’s) navy blue, and for some reason we did not go with Murdoch’s (then) red and yellow. This rugby […]

Carpe Diem volume 2 issue 2 (1992) – fretting about jobs

The front cover of this 1992 edition of Carpe Diem featured a perennial concern for law students: the job market. But the description of merely fifty or so graduates not being able to get jobs in law firms nowadays seems incredulous. The issue also featured a letter from then-comedian / late night talk show host, […]

Carpe Diem Volume 2 no 5 cover

In September 1992, Penny Moore (1994) bravely volunteered to be the convenor of the Australian Law Students Association conference after the law students society of the Northern Territory University (as it was then) was unable to do so. This was a significant moment for MSLS and the School of Law – drawing attention within the […]

Inaugural Murdoch Law Alumni Function, 24 March 1998

The January / April 1998 edition of School of Law Newsletter reported on the first Murdoch Law Alumni event: On 24 March 1998, in the lead-up to the incorporation of the Murdoch Law Alumni (expected to occur by the end of June next), the Alumni Organising Committee held a Launch event at Club Murdoch at […]

Murdoch University Law logo

Some of you might be curious as to the origins of the logo on this website. When the School of Law was being established in the late 1980s, then-Professor Ralph Simmonds commissioned the logo as a means to draw attention to the forthcoming School’s existence, as well as use it for fund-raising. In 1991, the […]

MSLS Law Camp 1991

Here are a section of photographs from the first Law Camp, held in 1991 at Nanga Bush Camp in Dwellingup. Missing names of people in photographs? Please let us know. Shaun Temby (right, 1993), shoots a water pistol at a hapless catcher of lobbed raw eggs. Murray Wheater (1993) dances a jig while being told […]