• Academic Requirements
  • Academic Calendar
  • Curriculum – The three-year curriculum at the University of Maine School of Law is intensive and challenging. Offering courses in subjects as diverse as international business transactions and environmental law, as well as traditional core courses. The underlying purpose of the curriculum is to give students a solid foundation in legal analysis and practical lawyering skills that will serve them well in any field they choose to pursue. View a list of courses offered at Maine Law.
  • Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library
  • Maine Law Review – The Maine Law Review is published twice annually by Maine Law students. 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.
  • Ocean & Coastal Law Journal – The Ocean and Coastal Law Journal is dedicated to facilitating discourse on legal issues related to domestic and international use of the sea and seashores. It is published by second and third year students at Maine Law in two volumes per year. These volumes include articles by practitioners and scholars, as well as comments and case notes written by students addressing issues of marine resource regulation, coastal zone management, marine environmental protection, and other topics of importance in the field of ocean and coastal law. In addition, OCLJ publishes a brief synopsis of major recent developments in the field, which is produced by editors on the OCLJ staff.
  • The Student Journal of Information Privacy Law (SJIPL) is dedicated topublishing student-authored scholarship on the topic of information privacy law.  Published papers may be written by students at Maine Law or submitted from students at other schools.  The SJIPL publishes three categories of work: (a) shorter-form commentary blog posts; (b) papers written by Maine Law students to satisfy their Information Privacy Law Certificate requirement; and (c) traditional law journal articles, in paginated volumes published online.  The Journal is published by second and third year students at the University of Maine School of Law.
  • Clinical Programs & Externships
  • Exchange Programs

Student Handbooks

The Student Handbook contains information about the University of Maine School of Law’s general academic requirements and policies. The current versions of the Student Handbook are below:

The Handbooks also incorporate the University of Maine System’s Student Code of Conduct and Academic Integrity Policy.

Maine Law faculty place teaching as their first priority. Superb faculty mentoring and out-of-class contributions to student educational and professional development are as much a part of our curriculum as the actual classes themselves.

Members of our faculty participate in nationally and internationally recognized scholarship. Law faculty also act as consultants to the federal courts, to Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court, to the Governor and various legislative committees, and to the national and state bar associations.

Maine Law’s new home in the Maine Center at 300 Fore Street is located in the beautiful coastal city of Portland, Maine, just 2 hours from Boston.  In the heart of Portland’s Old Port, Maine Law is within walking distance of many law firms and both the Federal and State courts.  Six floors, many with views of Portland Harbor, provide multiple classrooms, conference and innovation spaces, as well as student study spaces that include individualized focus study spaces and multiple seminar-style classrooms all equipped with modern technology.  The Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic. which houses the General Practice Clinic, Youth Justice Clinic, the Prisoner Assistance Clinic and the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic are co-located on the Third Floor of the Maine Center.   Also part of the Maine Center are the University of Maine’s Graduate School of Business and the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Service, providing rich cross-disciplinary opportunities in business and policy for Maine Law students.