Submissions from 2024
Re/Descheduling Marijuana Through Administrative Action
Scott P. Bloomberg, Alexandra Harriman, and Shane Pennington
Multi-Parent Custody
Jessica Feinberg
Crypto Losses
Jeffrey A. Maine and Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Long Overdue: The Need for an Examination of the Specter of Racial Bias in the Federal Death Penalty System
John Nidiry and Ruth Friedman
Judges as Lawyers
Deirdre M. Smith
Dropping the Veil: How an Investigation into One Asylum Office Reveals Systemic Failures Within the U.S. Affirmative Asylum System
Anna R. Welch and Sara P. Cressey
Submissions from 2023
Political Advertising in Virtual Reality
Scott P. Bloomberg
Abortion Localism and Preemption in a Post-Roe Era
Kaitlin A. Caruso
Price Gouging, the Pandemic, and What Comes Next
Kaitlin A. Caruso
What's Your Damage?! The Supreme Court Has Wrecked Temporary Takings Jurisprudence
Timothy M. Harris
Demystifying the Elusive Quest for Cyber Insurance Protection: The Need for New Contract Language
Deborah L. Johnson
From Comprehensive Liability to Climate Liability: The Case for a Climate Adaptation Resilience and Liability Act (CARLA)
Anthony Moffa
Private Environmental Nudges
Anthony Moffa
Submissions from 2022
Frenemey Federalism
Scott P. Bloomberg
Legalization Without Disruption: Why Congress Should Let States Restrict Interstate Commerce in Marijuana
Scott P. Bloomberg
Parent Zero
Jessica Feinberg
The Boundaries of Multi-Parentage
Jessica Feinberg
Taxing Creativity
Jeffrey A. Maine
Constitutional Authority, Common Resources, and the Climate
Anthony L. Moffa
Courts as Auditors of Legislation?
Daniel Pi, Giampaolo Frezza, and Francesco Parisi
Termination of Parental Rights as a Private Remedy: Rationales, Realities, and Remedies
Deirdre M. Smith
Non-State Actors "Under Color of Law": Closing a Gap in Protection Under the Convention Against Torture
Anna R. Welch and SangYeob Kim
The Color of Property and Auto Insurance: Time for Change
Jennifer B. Wriggins
Submissions from 2021
Reform Through Resignation: Why Chief Justice Roberts Should Resign (in 2023)
Scott P. Bloomberg
After Marriage Equality: Dual Fatherhood for Married Male Same-Sex Couples
Jessica Feinberg
Wealth Transfer Tax Planning After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Jeffrey A. Maine and John A. Miller
Environmental Indifference
Anthony L. Moffa
Strength in Numbers (of Words): Empirical Analysis of Preambles and Public Comments
Anthony L. Moffa
How to Include Issues of Race and Racism in the 1-L Torts Course: A Call for Reform
Jennifer Wriggins
Submissions from 2020
Democracy, Deference, and Compromise: Understanding and Reforming Campaign Finance Jurisprudence
Scott P. Bloomberg
Unregistered Complaints
Christine Galbraith Davik
Word Limited: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between the Length, Resiliency, and Impact of Federal Regulations
Anthony Moffa
Submissions from 2019
Judicial Partisanship in a Partisan Era: A Reply to Professor Robertson
Dmitry Bam
Precedent and Dialogue in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Richard C. Chen
The cognitive dissonance between the rule of law and rural realities: Reading Gillian Hadfield’s Rules for a Flat World in the context of rural identity and politics
Danielle M. Conway
Fictional Pleas
Thea B. Johnson
Attacking Innovation
Jeffrey A. Maine
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Decisionmaking
Anthony Moffa
Uniform Climate Control
Anthony Moffa
Law as Strategy: Thinking Below the State in Afghanistan
Charles H. Norchi
Community Development Finance and Economic Justice
Peter R. Pitegoff
Keeping It in the Family: Minor Guardianship As Private Child Protection
Deirdre Smith
The brave new world of energy and natural resources development
Donald N. Zillman
Submissions from 2018
Legal Deserts: a Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice (forthcoming)
Danielle M. Conway
Keeping Up with New Legal Titles: The Legal Research Manual with Video Modules, 2nd Ed.
Christine Iaconeta Dulac
Context, Integration and the Big Three Questions: An Approach to Teaching Transactional Law
Andrew M. Kaufman
Environmens Rea
Anthony Moffa
Food Federalism: States, Local Governments, and the Fight for Food Sovereignty
Sarah B. Schindler
President Trump, the New Chicago School and the Future of Environmental Law and Scholarship
Sarah B. Schindler
The "Publicization" of Private Space
Sarah B. Schindler
Domestic Violence and Gender Equality: Recognition, Remedy, and (Possible) Retrenchment
Jennifer Wriggins
Submissions from 2017
Partisan Judicial Speech and Recusal Procedure
Dmitry Bam
Seen and Heard: A Defense of Judicial Speech
Dmitry Bam
Tailored Judicial Selection
Dmitry Bam
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Domestic Institutional Reform
Richard C. Chen
Crafting Precedent
Richard C. Chen
ALLSTAR Benchmarking: How Collaborating On Collecting And Sharing Data Is A Win-Win
Christine I. Dulac
Measuring the Creative Plea Bargain
Thea B. Johnson
The Apps for Justice Project: Employing Design Thinking to Narrow the Access to Justice Gap
Lois R. Lupica
Multinational Efforts to Limit Intellectual Property Income Shifting: The OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project
Jeffrey A. Maine
Much Ado About the TPP's Effect on Pharmaceuticals
Emily M. Morris
Community Development Law, Economic Justice, and the Legal Academy
Peter R. Pitegoff
Submissions from 2016
Restoring the Civil Jury in a World Without Trials
Dmitry Bam
Self-Help Reimagined
Lois R. Lupica
Branding Taxation
Jeffrey A. Maine and Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Traditional Ecological Rulemaking
Anthony Moffa
The Irrelevance of Nanotechnology Patents
Emily M. Morris
A Tribute to Wil Smith, Maine Law Class of 2006
Jennifer Wriggins
Response to Keeping Cases from Black Juries: An Empirical Analysis of How Race, Income Inequality, and Regional History Affect Tort Law
Jennifer Wriggins
Submissions from 2015
Our Unconstitutional Recusal Procedure
Dmitry Bam
Recusal Failure
Dmitry Bam
Remarks: Caperton's Next Generation -- Beyond the Bank
Dmitry Bam
A Contractual Approach to Investor-State Regulatory Disputes
Richard C. Chen
The Miracle at Marrakesh: Doing Justice for the Blind and Visually Impaired While Changing the Culture of Norm Setting at WIPO
Danielle Conway
Keeping Up with New Legal Titles; Introduction to Law Firm Practice by Michael Downey
Christine Iaconeta Dulac
Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation through Physical Design of the Built Environment
Sarah B. Schindler
Regulating the Underground: Secret Supper Clubs, Pop-Up Restaurants and the Role o f Law
Sarah B. Schindler
Dangerous Diagnoses, Risky Assumptions, and the Failed Experiment of "Sexually Violent Predator" Commitment
Deirdre M. Smith
From Orphans to Families in Crisis: Parental Rights Matters in Maine Probate Courts
Deirdre M. Smith
Intergrating Skills and Collaborating Across Law Schools: An Example From Immigration Law
Anna R. Welch
In Deep: Dilemmas of Federal Flood Insurance Reform
Jennifer Wriggins
Submissions from 2014
Banning Lawns
Sarah B. Schindler
Unpermitted Urban Agriculture: Transgressive Actions, Changing Norms and the Local Food Movement
Sarah B. Schindler
Flood Money: The Challenge of U.S. Flood Insurance Reform in a Warming World
Jennifer Wriggins
Submissions from 2013
Voter Ignorance and Judicial Elections
Dmitry Bam
We Know Who You Are and What You Are Made Of: The Illusion of Internet Anonymity and Its Impact on Protection from Genetic Discrimination
Christine S. Davik
A Bibliography of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Christine Iaconeta Dulac
Improving the Lives of Individuals in Financial Distress Using a Randomized Control Trial: A Research and Clinical Approach
Lois R. Lupica, Dalie´ Jimenez, D. James Greiner, and Rebecca L. Sandefur
Wealth Transfer Tax Planning for 2013 and Beyond
John A. Miller and Jeffrey A. Maine
Submissions from 2012
The Consumer Bankruptcy Fee Study: Final Report
Lois R. Lupica
Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging the Tax Code and Software
Xuan-Thao Nguyen and Jeffrey A. Maine
Of Backyard Chickens and Front Yard Gardens: The Conflict Between Local Governments and Locavores
Sarah B. Schindler
The Future of Abandoned Big Box Stores : Legal Solutions to the Legacies of Poor Planning Decisions
Sarah B. Schindler
Mandates, Markets, and Risk: Auto Insurance and the Affordable Care Act
Jennifer Wriggins
Submissions from 2011
Making Appearances Matter: Recusal and the Appearance of Bias
Dmitry Bam
The Fundamentals of Wealth Transfer Tax Planning: 2011 And Beyond
John A. Miller and Jeffrey A. Maine
The History of Intellectual Property Taxation: Promoting Innovation and Other Intellectual Property Goals?
Xuan-Thao Nguyen and Jeffrey A. Maine
The Unequal Tax Treatment of Intellectual Property
Xuan-Thao Nguyen and Jeffrey A. Maine
Introduction: the Deepwater Horizon Incident
Charles H. Norchi
An Evolving Foreclosure Landscape: The Ibanez Case and Beyond
Peter R. Pitegoff and Laura S. Underkuffler