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The University of Maine Law School is a public institution and the only law school in the state of Maine. Faculty, students, and staff are engaged in rigorous, meaningful scholarship and work that has real-world impact throughout the state and beyond. Maine Law is located in Portland, which is established as a national foodie destination, one of the best cities for raising a family, and one of the top ten best places to live in the U.S.

In addition to the picturesque setting and rich cultural surroundings, Maine Law offers a professional and academic climate where students, staff, and faculty are passionate about their work and committed to catalyzing positive social change. The Law School is guided by values of community-mindedness, kindness, and congeniality, making it an exceptional setting to develop your career, engage with impactful work, and make life-long connections.

Maine Law is located at 300 Fore Street, in the heart of downtown Portland. We share this location with partners throughout the University of Maine System, including the University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center and Portland Gateway, which allows for seamless collaborative and interdisciplinary projects at graduate and professional levels.

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Faculty Positions

THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW, in the thriving and increasingly diverse coastal community of Portland, Maine, invites applications for two full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty positions to begin in the Fall of 2025. The Law School is particularly interested in candidates whose focus includes criminal law and related subjects (including criminal procedure); and property law and related subjects (including land use and environmental law).

Applicants must possess a J.D. degree, an excellent academic record, a record or promise of high scholarly achievement, and a record or promise of successful teaching and mentoring students. Both lateral and entry level candidates will be considered. Rank and salary will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application materials should include a cover letter, C.V., and research agenda. Please direct application materials and questions to the chair of the Appointments Committee, Professor Anthony Moffa, at the following email address:
mainelawsearch@maine.edu.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW, in the thriving and increasingly diverse coastal community of Portland, Maine, invites applications for the position of Legal Director for its new Business Law Clinic.

The position is a non-tenure track Professor of Practice or contract faculty
appointment within the Law School. The position will coordinate with the new Business Director for the new Business Law Clinic, and the University of Maine MBA program.
The clinic will have two focuses: it will provide a pedagogical and student-oriented experience that will help make law and business students “practice ready” upon completion of their degrees, and it will provide no cost legal and business advice to startup and un-capitalized entrepreneurs.

Under the instruction and supervision of the Legal Director and the Business Director, with assistance from mentors drawn from the area legal and business communities, students will obtain experience with business startup, legal, and transactional practice skills and gain practical experience providing services to clients. The clinic will focus on start-up and entrepreneurial ventures and will provide law students and graduate business students the opportunity, working collaboratively, to apply their legal and business coursework in experiential contexts and to develop their practical skills as legal and business advisors to their clients.

The Legal Director will be expected to provide both clinical instruction and administrative oversight. The position will begin at some point in 2025, with the potential to start as early as the upcoming spring semester, depending on the schedules of all parties involved.

Application materials should include a cover letter, C.V., and research agenda. Please direct application materials and questions to the chair of the Appointments Committee, Professor Anthony Moffa, at the following email address: mainelawsearch@maine.edu.

Adjunct Faculty Positions

Adjunct professors are an essential part of the Maine Law community. Adjunct faculty typically spend 2-3 hours per week teaching and are responsible for course preparation, offering office hours or meeting with students upon request, and grading and evaluation of students. 

Adjunct faculty opportunities vary by semester. If you are interested in becoming an adjunct professor at Maine Law, please submit the materials requested below. Your materials will be considered for any current openings or otherwise kept for the future. 

Please email a cover letter and CV to lawfacultysupport@maine.edu. In your cover letter, please include:

  • Areas of expertise
  • Courses you’d like to teach
    • To propose a new course, please include a proposed title and brief description. 
  • A summary of any previous teaching experience

While not required, you’re welcome to send additional materials such as course evaluations, syllabi for previously taught courses, and/or a teaching statement.

Staff Positions

The University of Maine School of Law is accepting applications for an Associate Dean of Student Services. The Associate Dean for Student Services provides leadership and strategic direction for a broad range of services and programs to enrich the overall experience of Law students and provides individualized support and resource referrals for students’ academic, professional, and personal development. The Associate Dean for Student Services plays a critical role in managing and resolving a wide spectrum of student-related issues, while contemporaneously creating a positive, supportive, and inclusive campus environment for a diverse student population. The Associate Dean for Student Services fosters a spirit of community within the Law School by creating, running, and supporting student programming and governance. The Office of Student Affairs serves as the central point of contact for approximately 260 full-time students and dozens of flex-time students each year. 

The work location is 300 Fore Street, Portland.

The hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with some evenings and weekends required. This position reports to the Dean of Student Services and is an integral part of a dynamic team.

Salary: The hiring salary range is $80,000-$90,000/year.

Benefits: The University of Maine System offers a highly competitive benefits package that includes (but is not limited to):

  • 13 paid holidays plus earned vacation and sick time
  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance and employer-paid long-term disability insurance
  • Employer-paid basic life insurance and supplemental life insurance
  • Tuition waiver program for employees and their dependents (spouse, domestic partner, and dependent children)
  • 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution

To learn more, please review the Benefits Information Summary.

Associate Dean of Student Services job description.

Qualifications
Required:

  • Experience working in student affairs, student services, or student counseling.
  • Experience with student program development and supervision.
  • Experience with, or high capacity to excel at, student advising.
  • Demonstrated interest in working with law or other graduate students.
  • Knowledge of and interest in recent changes in legal education and the legal profession, including the intersection of co-curricular programs and professional skills development.
  • Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including high emotional intelligence, ability to navigate conflict and difficult individuals, and ability to speak compellingly to large audiences.
  • Strong administrative skills, including the ability to develop, supervise, and implement programming.
  • Superior judgment, discretion, integrity and professionalism.
  • Capacity to collaborate with and support students, staff and faculty from highly diverse racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identity, religious, political and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities.
  • Ability to navigate complex problems and offer strategic solutions.
  • Flexibility and commitment to periodically work long and/or irregular hours, especially in August, September, December, and May.

Preferred:

  • Bachelor’s degree required; JD or advanced degree in a related field such as higher education, law, counseling and/or management, preferred.
  • At least three years of progressively responsible management experience in student affairs or a related field at the undergraduate and/or professional or graduate school level, or equivalent management and program experience with a demonstrated commitment to higher education and student affairs.
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The University of Maine System is an equal opportunity institution committed to nondiscrimination. The following individual has been designated to handle inquiries for the University of Maine School of Law: 

Sara Henry
Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX Services
5713 Chadbourne Hall, Room 412
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5713