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PORTLAND, Maine – The University of Maine School of Law will graduate its largest class in more than a decade this Saturday, helping the state expand access to justice amid an attorney workforce shortage. Maine Law will confer 88 J.D.… Read More… about Maine Law will graduate largest law class since 2014 this Saturday
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Intentional burns have a long history among Native communities. Also known as prescribed burns, setting controlled fires to certain forested, prairie, or agriculture landscapes is a way to regenerate environments, re-shaping and preserving them for decades and generations to come. … Read More… about Rooted in heritage, driven by justice: Meet Graduation speaker Holly Fain
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“As a first generation college student, one of the biggest things that helped me was something others find stressful,” graduating 3L Andy Almonte said. As part of Maine Law’s 3+3 Program, he was on an accelerated B.A. and J.D. trajectory,… Read More… about Accelerated success: 3+3 Program helps first-gen student launch legal career
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Access to affordable housing has become a pervasive problem in the U.S. over the last several decades, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationally, roughly 31% of households are considered cost burdened, meaning more than 30% of income goes… Read More… about A Place to Call Home: Three journal symposium addresses housing crisis in Maine and beyond
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PORTLAND, Maine — The University of Maine School of Law has been recognized among the nation’s top law schools. In 2025-26 rankings released earlier today by U.S. News & World Report, Maine Law ranked No. 88, up from its No.… Read More… about Maine Law ranked among nation’s top law schools
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The Maine Association for Public Interest Law (MAPIL) auction is a time honored Maine Law tradition, one that has been going strong for 37 years. Students, alumni, and friends of Maine Law gather, as they did this year in late… Read More… about Victoria Morales receives MAPIL’s Excellence in Public Service Award
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Are websites considered places of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act? The question has never been uniformly answered at a federal level, but 2Ls Gus Forseth and Adam Fortier-Brown did their best to sort through this question during… Read More… about Why these students were arguing before Maine’s Supreme Court as only second years
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Access to housing is a multifaceted issue facing communities and states across the country, and Maine is no exception. Since 2013, housing vacancy rates have dipped from 3% to 1.4% in 2023. Both rates are well below the national average.… Read More… about Maine Law’s three journals will host Housing Policy Symposium on April 4
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Susan Faunce ‘06 appreciates the many merits of a Maine Law education. During her time at Maine Law and after she was easily able to recognize the exceptional education she received and the fact that it came without the inflated… Read More… about Maine Law alumna Susan Faunce takes the helm of the Maine State Bar Association
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As high school students from York, Cumberland, and Androscoggin Counties filed into the Moot Court Room there was only one point of agreement; no one wanted to sit in the front row. They were visiting Maine Law for “The Law… Read More… about Extended Learning Opportunity gives high schoolers a taste of law school
