Volume 21 Edition 3, September 2015
EDITOR Patrick Barkachi DEPUTY EDITORS Sarah Li Yee Lien, Lucy Wu DESIGNER Nathan Li WRITERS Macquarie Law Students Alistair Booth, Baheej Sheikh, David Yao, Eda Ince, Edwin Nee, Lauren Roberts, Megan McKenna, Nick Owczarek, Samantha Bodell, Sammuel Dobbie-Smitham, Sarah Li Yee Lien, Sharan Kandola, Valiant Warzecha. Alumni Andrew Clark, Eli Ball, Jessica Tasso, Kathy Molla-Abbasi, Luke Salem, Sebastian Hartford Davis Macquarie Law Staff and Academics Dr Margaret Kelly, Senior Lecturer; Professor Natalie Klein, Dean of Macquarie Law School. COPY EDITORS Dusan Djukic, Elyse O-Sullivan, Emma Breislin, Gabriel Joseph, Hannah Bell, Laura Muir, Lisa Barca, Lucy Wu, Natalie Morton, Nick Owczarek, Paulina Sukari, Sahana Nava, Tanya Thomas, William Lam, Yi Wong. EDITORIAL REVIEW Robert Ephraums Team Leader, Campus Engagement Emma Grimley Director (Publications), Macquarie University Law Society IMAGE CREDITS Macquarie University Law Society unless otherwise specified. THE BRIEF ONLINE The Brief's editions and online content can be found at http://muls.org/brief/ or through our Facebook page. DISCLAIMER All views expressed herein are those of the individual authors and do not reflect, in any way, the attitude of the Macquarie University Law Society. The Macquarie University Law Society does not accept any responsibility for the losses flowing from the publication of material in The Brief.
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MULS at 40 - Margaret Kelly
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The Brief History
23 MULS Alumni Memory Lane 28 ALSA and MULS 32 MULS Executive 2015 34 MULS Competitions 36 MULS Law Revue 88 MULS Law Cruise 41 MULS President’s Report