New Decades, New Horizons – Torts Illustrated 1, 2020

FROM THE PRESS ROOM Welcome back to Semester 2 everyone!

The Media and Comms team are proud to present our first Torts Illustrated for the year, New Decades, New Horizons – and what a horizon that has turned out to be.

At the start of the year, when we drafted this title we couldn’t have foreseen how drastically the year could have changed in such a short span.

This year, we’ve seen one of the largest viral outbreaks in more than a century, monumental calls for social-structural change all while businesses and learning have undergone an accelerated shift to online.

Given the disruption this semester, we’ve been delighted to receive so many high quality submissions and interpretations on the given theme. We of course hope you enjoy this issue as much as we enjoyed reading and compiling your articles. This issue is definitely thicc, so rest assured that it’ll be a worthy read. It seems you’ve all been busy in isolation.

Our team has been busy too. Hopefully you’ve seen some of our new initiatives this year (some of which you’ll see throughout this issue), including Humans of Lawbry, The Fortnightly (our email newsletter), Motivation Mondays, TikTok Tuesdays, Social Fridays, our Instagram giveaways and even our first ever live-streamed event.

When we conceived of New Decades, New Horizons, we were thinking about celebrating the ‘roaring ‘20s’ – not about a pandemic that would cause us all to be stuck inside indefinitely. We hope this issue reminds you – like it did us, to think outside of the borders of what you think is possible in the new decade.

Just remember how quickly things can change.

Yours in Zoom backgrounds, The Media and Communications Team