Maine Law Review
The Maine Law Review plans to publish a symposium issue in the Spring of 2008 entitled Nation-Building: A Legal Architecture? The purpose of the symposium is to explore, from various perspectives, the hypothesis that there is indeed a legal architecture, or a framework grounded in law, to which institutional and individual participants in the nation-building process can and should adhere. This topic is extremely relevant given the range of actors now involved in the formulation, implementation, and maintenance of the mechanisms of law and governance of failed and fractured states across the globe.
Rather than focusing narrowly on nation-building as foreign policy or as it pertains uniquely to post-conflict reconstruction, the symposium issue will canvass various aspects of the field and attempt to provide, in a single volume, a unique and comprehensive exploration of the subject. Individual articles or essays will address specific elements of nation-building and provide readers with insight into the process as viewed through the lens of numerous perspectives.
The Maine Law Review is no longer accepting submissions for Volume 60. We will begin accepting submissions for Volume 61 on March 1, 2008.
The Maine Law Review has published the 2007 Spring symposium issue entitled Closing in on Open Science: Trends in Intellectual Property and Scientific Research. Thank you to all who have contributed to this effort.
The Maine Law Review is published twice annually by the students of the Law School. The Law Review contains notes and comments written by students on current legal problems as well as articles by judges, teachers, and practitioners. Membership on the Law Review is by invitation based on academic performance and writing skills.
The Law Review provides students with an invaluable two-year research 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 as supervisor liability for employment discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act, whether a moratorium on land development constitutes a per se taking of property under the Takings Clause of the United States Constitution, and a business's duty to remove ice and snow from its walkways.
Maine Law Review welcomes unsolicited manuscript submissions from professionals in various fields of law. Please see the Submissions page for complete details.
