Maine Law Review News
The Maine Law Review plans to publish a symposium issue in the spring of 2010 entitled Accessing Justice in Hard Times: Lessons from the Field, Looking to the Future. The purpose of this symposium is to gather together, in one place, the perspectives, experiences, and insights of Maine’s top legal scholars, jurists, and practitioners in order to explore the problems created or exacerbated by the state’s, and the nation’s, worsening economic climate. What is happening? Whom is it affecting? How do we begin to address the problems of increasing barriers to justice and provide solutions?
The Law Review is committed firmly to the idea that this symposium issue will be relevant, practical, and useful to all segments of the legal population here in Maine and abroad. The topic is construed broadly in order to provide an opportunity for a wide variety of viewpoints on a nearly limitless range of sub-topics. This symposium will not be a "traditional" law review publication, as such. The issue will present an interdisciplinary perspective on the subject and include theoretical, empirical, and practical pieces by authors with a variety of backgrounds.
Update: As of June 1, 2009, both our fall (2009) and spring (2010) issues have been fully committed. Volume 62 (2010) is now closed.
Beginning in February 2010, the Maine Law Review will begin accepting submissions for Volume 63. Please see the Submissions page for more details.
About the Maine Law Review
The Maine Law Review is published twice annually by the students of the University of Maine School of Law. The Law Review contains case notes and comments written by our students on current legal problems, as well as articles by judges, professors, and practitioners on a variety of legal issues. Membership on the Law Review is by invitation based on academic performance and writing skills. For more information on admission to the Law Review, please see the Writing Competition page.
The Law Review provides students with an invaluable two-year research, editing, and writing experience that allows each to explore in-depth a legal issue of particular interest. Recent editions have contained student notes examining such diverse issues of Maine law as the preservation of judicial discretion in criminal sentencing, the equal protection implications of child adoption by same-sex couples, the scope of “public records” and privacy under Maine law, and the prudence of posthumous paternity testing for inheritance purposes.
