Getting started

What StudyLaw is

StudyLaw (the Legal Learning Bench) is a study resource for Australian law. It holds a library of articles covering Australian legal subjects and jurisdictions, a search over that library, and tools for organising your study and asking questions about it.

It is built for people studying Australian law. It is not a substitute for advice from a qualified practitioner, and it is not a case-law database.

What you can use without paying

The library, the search and every article page are open to anyone. You do not need an account to read them, and you can link to any article directly.

That is deliberate: you should be able to judge whether the material is any good before deciding whether to pay for anything.

What a subscription adds

A subscription unlocks the study tools:

Workspace — bookmarks, saved citations and your own uploaded documents, kept in one place.
Pathways — your own ordered study routes through the library. See Pathways.
Tutor — ask questions and get answers built from the library's material, with sources. See Tutor.

The current price, billing interval and any trial terms are shown before you check out. Nothing is charged without being shown to you first.

Setting up

Create an account at /register. You will be asked to verify your email address before account features open up.
Subscribe at /subscribe when you want the study tools. Payment is handled by Stripe; StudyLaw never stores your full card number.
Secure your account. You can add a passkey or multi-factor authentication from /account. This is worth doing straight away — see Account and billing.

Where things live

If something is wrong

Email support@studylaw.io with your account email, what you were doing and what happened. If it concerns a Tutor answer, include the question you asked — Tutor answers can be looked up, which makes a specific report far easier to act on than a general one.