Long-form research on Australian legal-research tooling.
Working notes from the CaseSharp team in Sydney. The graduation cliff, the AGLC4 rulebook, and why treating citations at the paragraph rather than the case changes which authority answers your problem question. Written for Australian law students who want the full argument.
- Long readUpdated 3 August 2026 · 5 min read
The graduation cliff
Some weeks after your last exam, your university account is deactivated and the research databases your faculty pays for go with it. What actually happens, what people fall back on, and how to leave university with at least one tool that stays.
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- Practical15 April 2026 · 11 min read
AGLC4 mistakes that cost marks (and how to avoid them)
The Australian Guide to Legal Citation, fourth edition, is a 320-page rulebook for how to format references in legal writing. Most students lose marks on the same six things. A field guide to the small punctuation, italics, and pinpoint conventions that actually matter.
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- MethodUpdated 5 August 2026 · 7 min read
A citation count is not case treatment
Knowing a case has been cited a great many times tells you it is influential, not what each later court did with it. That judgment comes from reading the citing cases. How a citation graph makes that reading fast, and what it deliberately leaves to you.
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