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By Professor Deirdre Smith, Director of the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic The Main Streets in many Maine towns look nearly deserted at times as businesses of all kinds close down. With fewer stores and services, residents of small towns in… Read More… about Don’t let rural Maine become a ‘legal desert’
By Professor Charles Norchi The Pandemic of 2020 underscores the importance of science for everyone. COVID-19 appears to have terminated the anti-science moment that emerged in 2016. Nearly everyone now accepts that physical reality is a fact, even when we… Read More… about Law, Science, and Contagion
By Visiting Associate Professor Jeff Thaler In Maine, one inhabited island tried to keep people from coming over from the mainland because of contagion concern; on a nearby island, several residents cut down trees to blockade a house occupied by… Read More… about Novel coronavirus raises novel legal issues
By Professor Charles Norchi* In January as COVID-19 swept from Asia to Europe, my scientist colleagues warned of a great disruptor. Our institution deploys Arctic field missions, research, and teaching across a number of disciplines that appeared to be at… Read More… about Maine-Arctic on Ice?