User:Pat Conheady

This is a personal account and does not reflect the views of any other party.

I am studying law (Juris Doctor) at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. I am interested in tax law, government administration (thus my interest in freedom of information laws) and the development of the common law and equity.

I am using Wikiversity to collect and share what I am learning about the law.

I have a vision for a free, online law school. It may take a while to realise. Abraham Lincoln never went to law school. Nor did he pay $150 for a prescribed textbook or find himself unable to sell a textbook because a new edition with 1% of the content changed has been published. The current model of legal education in Australia results in costs of over $100,000 to educate one lawyer. Is the solution to tweak the way that $100,000 is paid for? Or is there a better way to educate lawyers?

I would like to make pages which explain some of the technical legal and government underpinnings of news and current affairs. This would be an accessible way for lay people and students to bridge the gap between the world they are familiar with and the way the law and government works. The real operation of law and government is a mystery to most people but, once you 'crack the code', it is mostly very straightforward.