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Keeping Up to Date in Law

Explore your options for setting up and managing alerts for case law, legislation, commentary and legal scholarship

Introduction

Most blogs allow you to subscribe by email or RSS feed so you are notified each time there is a new blog post. This page contains some tools for finding good law blogs in your area.

Blogrolls (blog link lists)

A blogroll is a list of blogs that the blogger subscribers to their and have chosen to list on their blog. A good way of finding relevant blogs is by checking the blogroll of blogs that you like.

For example, if you think Opinio Juris  is a blog worth subscribing to, look at the blogroll at the bottom right-hand side of the blog homepage. You can see the blogs that are listed, visit them, and find some that you might find worth subscribing to.

Blogs for Law

High Court of Australia

Opinions on High was the University of Melbourne Law School's blog on decisions from the High Court of Australia. This blog is no longer active but the commentary posts can still be accessed.

The court also releases High Court of Australia Bulletin (weekly) and judgment alerts

Victorian Courts - Law Library of Victoria

Anyone can sign up to the Law Library of Victoria Library Bulletin to receive  updates on Judgments of Victorian and High Courts, indexed articles, Victorian Legislation and news about the Library. practice and procedures before the Court. 

Supreme Court of Victoria news can be found on Supreme Court of Victoria Virtual Info Hub in their Newsletter

Student blogs

Survive Law is edited by a team of law students and graduates exploring the world of law school and legal careers. The blog includes news on recent case law as well as tips to survive legal studies and the profession. /

JATL is edited by a student society at the University of Queensland. The society and its blog promotes discussions about the intersection between the law and social justice.

International law

Opinio Juris was the world’s first blog dedicated to the informed discussion of international law by and among academics, practitioners and legal experts. The blog is well indexed according to subject and jurisdiction, so worth exploring.

Canadian law

Legal Feeds - the blog of Canadian Lawyer and Law times.

Blogs with handy links

Justia's Blawgsearch

Justia's Blawgsearch indexes law blogs and lists the most popular. You can search for law blogs that mention your keywords. You can also browse the most popular blogs by subject.

Once you have selected a subject category from the list you can subscribe to all of the blogs by clicking on the RSS icon underneath the title of the subject, or you can subscribe to an individual blog by clicking on the RSS icon underneath that particular blog:

Feedspot

Feedspot brings user's RSS feeds and favourite websites into one place. It has a list of Australia Law Blogs.  

Opinions on High - Links

The Opinions on high blog lists blogs published by courts, universities, media and organisations that focus on law.


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