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FROM THE DEAN
A center of excellence and a force for justice
Dear Friends,
Edward S. Godfrey, founding dean of the modern University of
Maine School of Law, predicted in 1965, “The future of the
school looks bright . . . . [I]t should become a powerful force
for good in the life of the state.” He wrote further that the school was
designed not just to provide a sound legal education, “. . . but also to
contribute the benefits of scholarly research to the university world,
agencies of government, and the community in general.”
I am pleased to report that, almost 50 years later, Maine Law has
realized Dean Godfrey’s vision and more.
The arc of history
The University of Maine
School of Law has come a long
way over the past century. It was
founded initially as the University
of Maine School of Law in Bangor
in 1898 when only 45 other law
schools existed in the U.S., and
was followed by a series of successor
institutions until its merger
with the University of Maine
System in 1970. Maine Law has
emerged today as a nationally recognized
institution competing effectively
with more than 200 other
law schools nationwide.
The 1964 entering class of 22
students came from seven states
and 12 different colleges. The
2010 entering class of 95 students
came from 20 states and 60 different
colleges, joined by exchange
students from overseas. Applications
to the Law School increased
in 2010 by more than 60 percent
from the previous year, compared
with a 7.4 percent increase
in applications to all law schools
nationwide. Consistent with national
trends, applications in 2011
decreased modestly from last year’s
high, but the Law School continues apace in attracting strong applicants
from near and far.
The Princeton Review rated our Law School among the top five
nationally this year as most welcoming to older students, and preLaw
magazine placed us among the 40 best law schools nationally for public
interest. As the legal profession experiences rapid change, we are
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preparing our students for a wider range of careers in multiple arenas
and expanding our institutional role in informing public policy, contributing
to economic development and promoting justice.
Faculty excellence and impact
The cover story for this issue of Maine Law Magazine reflects this
vibrant vision of today’s University of Maine School of Law. Professors
Dave Owen and Sarah Schindler are in the eye of the storm of environmental
sustainability. Their teaching and research in environmental,
property, administrative, land use, and natural resources law have a direct
and constructive impact in addressing Maine’s challenges, while informing
policy on a national stage.
This robust combination of
academic excellence and practical
application to societal needs resonates
throughout the Law School
community. In these pages, you
will read about Clinical Professor
Christopher Northrop and our Juvenile
Justice Program, which plays
a leadership role in improving the
juvenile justice system in Maine
and gave rise to the Law School’s
designation as the New England Juvenile
Defender Center; Professor
Lois Lupica’s timely national study
of the impact of bankruptcy law in
this era of foreclosures; a cutting
edge new book by Professor Jennifer
Wriggins on the intersection of
race and torts; and work around the
world by Professors David Cluchey,
Martin Rogoff and Charles Norchi,
connecting the Law School and our
Marine Law Institute to collaborations
in France, Russia and Hong
Kong. In a record year for faculty
scholarship, our professors have
published five books this year, in
addition to numerous articles and
presentations, as described in the
faculty accomplishments section of
this magazine.
We are pleased to welcome Malick Ghachem (JD Harvard, PhD
Stanford), who joined our faculty in September, 2010. Prof. Ghachem
practiced law in Boston from 2005 to 2010 in criminal defense, employment
discrimination, and commercial litigation, and served as a
lecturer in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
We were joined as well for the fall 2010 semester by Dr. Laura Un-

derkuffler, the J. DuPratt White Professor of Law at Cornell University
Law School and an expert in property law and theory. Appointed
as the Edward S. Godfrey Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professor
Underkuffler continued her multi-year run as serial visitor at Maine
Law and a wonderful mentor to students and faculty colleagues.
Stellar students and career challenges
Our students continue to step up as civic leaders whose public
service makes a tremendous difference in Maine and beyond. Ryan
Royce (’11) was recently accepted into the highly competitive U.S.
Department of Justice Honors Program. Morgan Maxwell (’10) is
a U.S. Presidential Management Fellow, a two-year paid fellowship
sponsored by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Andrew
Clearwater (’09) was appointed as our inaugural Law & Innovation
Fellow, after receiving his LLM in Global Law and Technology at Suffolk
University Law School and completing his work as a research assistant
at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
In April 2010, we honored former Maine Chief Justice Vincent
McKusick and celebrated the launch of the McKusick Diversity Fellowship,
with two fellowships awarded thus far. Our first two Mc-
Kusick Fellows—Justin Costa (2L) and Danielle Cardona (1L)—are
student leaders with a commitment to building on Maine Law’s progress
in diversity. Our enrollment of minority students has increased
dramatically in the past few years, reinforced by our faculty and student
exchange program with Howard
University Law School. The Law School
aspires to be a model for Maine at a time
of dramatic demographic change.
The economic downturn and changes
in the legal profession present a challenging
job picture for our students. Our
Placement Task Force is addressing this
issue and developing strategies to support
our students and recent graduates. Our Board of Visitors has joined this
effort through its placement working group. With philanthropic support
from friends and alumni, we offer a summer fellowship program
for students working in the public interest. Our wide-ranging externship
program places students in a range of work settings for credit and
formative outreach.
The Law School’s institutional relationships, such as our evolving
relationship with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), give
rise to networking support for our students and recent graduates in
launching their legal careers, as described in this issue by two Maine
Law student interns at the USPTO. With support from David Kappos,
USPTO Director and U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce, the
Law School is working with the agency on pilot programs that will
enhance our recruitment, job placement, and educational program. We
are broadening our curriculum and encouraging our students to use
their law school education as a springboard to a wide array of work opportunities
in law, government, business and the nonprofit community.
Looking ahead
We marked the passing last year of Judge Frank M. Coffin, a remarkable
man who leaves an inspiring legacy to the lawyers of tomorrow.
In this issue are warm and thoughtful reflections from Jeffrey
Lehman, Chancellor and Dean of the Peking University School of
Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, and a former clerk for Judge
Coffin. The Maine Law Review has published a symposium issue dedi-
cated to the Judge’s legacy, and the Maine Law Library is working
collaboratively with others to publish a treasure trove of Judge Coffin’s
public speeches. Although we mourn the loss of a dear friend, we also
celebrate Judge Coffin’s amazing life and keep moving ahead with energy
and optimism, as he certainly would have us do.
As a public law school, we take our service mission seriously, and
our students play a central role. An ethic of public service is pervasive.
Students and faculty in the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic make
a huge difference in people’s lives, while the Maine Patent Program
and Intellectual Property Clinic together assist inventors, facilitate
technology transfer, and contribute to state research and development
policies. At a time of turmoil in financial markets and regulation, our
Governance and Ethics Symposium Series at the Law School engages
national experts and regional leaders from the private sector and the
nonprofit community. With generous support from attorney and civic
leader Catherine Lee, we have established the International Justice for
Women Lecture Series, an endowed program that will bring speakers
to Maine annually to discuss good work and strategies to benefit
women and girls in the developing world.
Our extended Maine Law community keeps us engaged and looking
ahead. The Honorable Leigh Saufley (’79), Chief Justice of the Maine
Supreme Judicial Court, shares some personal thoughts in her interview
for this magazine. As part of a continuing series, we place a spotlight
on several of our alumni in a selected area of practice. For this issue,
In the midst of financial challenge and uncertainty
in higher education, the state of the Law School is
strong and our trajectory is exciting.
in sports and entertainment, they are Gary Thorne (’73), Paul Greene
(’07), Matt Lane (’09), John W. Bride (’64), and Peter Carlisle (’94).
The University of Maine School of Law Foundation, together with
our Board of Visitors, is stepping up efforts in seeking long-term finance
and major gifts to support our students and enable us to achieve
our vision. The Alumni Association continues its active participation
in the Annual Fund, so central to our current operation in supporting
student scholarships, summer fellowships, faculty research, and disting-
uished visitors. We extend our sincere thanks to so many alumni and
friends for your consistent and generous support.
We are advancing steadily toward our goal of an even greater University
of Maine School of Law—a center of intellectual excellence,
a top-notch teaching and research institution, a pivotal player in
Maine’s economic development and public policy, a destination point
for students and faculty from around the state and around the world,
and an engine for justice. In the midst of financial challenge and uncertainty
in higher education, the state of the Law School is strong and
our trajectory is exciting.
I hope you enjoy this issue of Maine Law Magazine.
Peter Pitegoff
Dean, University of Maine School of Law
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Maine Law Magazine
Summer 2011
Dean
Peter Pitegoff
Magazine committee
elena Brandt
christopher Knott
Peter Pitegoff
Jennifer wriggins
Managing editor
elena Brandt
Editor/design
Peter weed
Copy editing
J. Julie welch
Photography (including cover)
rené Minnis
Special thanks
Michelene Decrow
Jack Montgomery
alexandra Moras
n. Joel Moser
Barbara riegelhaupt
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Copyright © 2011, University of Maine
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CONTENTS
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FEATURES
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12
17
20
22
24
Remembering Judge Coffin
The ways of an ideal judge.
Environmental Law
Professors Owen & Schindler tackle real-world problems.
Going Global
Maine Law increases its international reach.
Bankruptcy Law
Professor Lupica looks at the costs of bankruptcy law.
Race and Law
Professor Jennifer Wriggins discusses her new book.
Juvenile Justice
The Juvenile Justice Clinic offers work that matters.
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2 From the Dean
5 Opening Arguments: Chief Justice Saufley
8 Student Spotlight: Exploring a career in patents
9 Alumni Focus: Entertainment & Sports
10 News & Events
26 Faculty Accomplishments
29 Philanthropy Report

Opening Arguments:
Chief Justice Leigh Saufley
The Honorable Leigh Saufley is Chief Justice
of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. After
graduating in 1980 from the University of
Maine School of Law, Chief Justice Saufley
served as deputy attorney general, Maine District
Court Judge, and then Maine Superior Court
Justice. She was appointed as an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1997 and as
Chief Justice in 2001.
What aspects of the job do you enjoy
the most?
As an appellate justice, nothing compares
with an intense oral argument followed by
lively discussion with my colleagues. As an
administrator, I find it most rewarding to work
across branches of government and within
communities to solve problems.
How do you balance your administrative and
Judicial Branch responsibilities with your role
as an appellate justice?
Balance is overrated! Like many of my
colleagues, I work long hours, and I enjoy almost
every minute of it. Because administrative
responsibilities demand my time during regular
courthouse hours, I do much of the reading and
writing for the appellate work at night and on
weekends.
What is one thing you learned when taking the
Law Court on the road to Maine high schools
and, occasionally, middle schools?
The students’ interests are not confined to
sensational cases; students have had lively
discussions on issues of land use, the common
law of torts, and even administrative law.
Who has been your greatest inspiration?
My parents, Jan and Dick Ingalls. They modeled
for my brothers and me the importance of hard
work and commitment to community. They
remain involved in local business, community, and
government, and they still manage to put family first.
I have always said that I was brilliant in my choice
of parents.
Finish this sentence: You wouldn’t catch me
dead without . . .
Diet Mountain Dew . . . and an ability to
laugh. Laughter keeps us from negativity, binds
us together, and makes even the toughest days
bearable.

REMEMBERING JUDGE COFFIN
The Ways of an Ideal Judge
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{Story by Jeffrey S. Lehman/Photo by Jack Montgomery}
To have served as one of Frank Coffin’s
law clerks is to have received
the finest imaginable apprenticeship.
For an entire year, my co-clerks and I were
his students, helping him do his work and
all the while absorbing life-changing lessons
from his example. Here are six attributes of
Judge Coffin that penetrated deeply into my
consciousness, so deeply that I was moved to
share them with a group of Chinese law students
the week after he passed away.
PERFECTIONISM. Judge Coffin wanted
every bit of work he produced to be his
best. He dreaded deciding a case wrongly,
writing a bad opinion, even writing a bad
sentence in a good opinion.
Some perfectionists aggressively impose
this value on others, but Judge Coffin followed
a different tack: Whenever we law
clerks produced inadequate work, he acted
as if we had tried our best but had come up
short because we were incapable of better.
He would always praise our effort. Then
he would gently ask a question that laid bare
our failings, prompting us to revise our work
voluntarily. When we were beyond that stage,
he would in the privacy of his chambers undertake
a painstaking edit, in an immaculate
if tiny hand.
The technique was a remarkable motivator.
We did not want him to think that we
lacked ability; we wanted him to think that
we were great.
Accordingly, we raised our level of professional
care in order to increase the likelihood that
he would conclude both that we were talented
and that we shared his standards of quality.
HaRD WORk: Judge Coffin stayed up late
at night, and he woke up early in the morning.
He did whatever he needed to ensure that
his work was perfect.
As was the case with his perfectionism,

“Perhaps the greatest measure of the man is that our
sense of wonder and appreciation has grown ever
deeper with the passage of time.”
– Jeffrey s. lehman
Judge Coffin never told us to work hard.
Quite the contrary: he told us that we were
his guests for the year in Maine and we should
take time to explore and enjoy its many delights.
And once again, we each chose to increase
our level of work effort, as we came to
emulate the Judge’s sense of duty to our work.
LaNgUagE: Judge Coffin loved words.
Funny words, strange words—he loved finding
the perfect word to capture his ideas. He
read widely, and it delighted him whenever an
author offered up a new word to incorporate
into his repertoire.
We all loved the way the Judge wrote. We
did our best to learn to write like him. We
sought out les mots justes to express our (or
his) thoughts. And we came to see the value of
taking pains to write in ways that our readers
would enjoy reading.
PEOPLE: Judge Coffin believed that all
people are important, and he believed that
sometimes important people are less important
than ordinary people. He was profoundly
interested in what other people thought and
Judge Coffin excelled as a painter and
sculptor. (Photo courtesy of
Barbara Riegelhaupt)
said—especially those who seemed to be living
more challenging lives. He was deeply
concerned that the justice system might not
hear the poor as clearly as it hears the rich,
and he did his best to guard against that bias
in his personal as well as his professional life.
Every Coffin clerk was touched by this aspect
of our mentor. He taught us that listening—real
listening—requires concentration
and effort, but repays those investments many
times over. And by his example he inspired
us to commit some portion of our energies to
making the world a little more just towards
those less fortunate than we.
FUN: Judge Coffin loved to laugh. He
thought life was funny and people were silly.
He believed that the importance and seriousness
of his work did not require him to take
himself too seriously.
And so we took up the Judge’s invitation
to play jokes on each other, and on him. We
played ridiculous games at his home. And
we came to appreciate how unbecoming the
quality of self-importance really is.
BREaDTH: Judge Coffin developed all different
aspects of himself. He was not only a
great thinker, a great judge, and a great writer,
but he was also a great painter and a great
sculptor.
Alas, artistic talent cannot simply be emulated.
Concerning this quality, some of us had
to draw a different lesson. Even if we could
not create art ourselves, we came to value that
talent in others and to want to make space in
our lives to appreciate it when we saw it.
To have spent a year as Judge Coffin’s
law clerk is to have received a priceless gift.
Throughout the year, we marveled daily at
how much we were learning. But perhaps the
greatest measure of the man is that our sense
of wonder and appreciation has grown ever
deeper with the passage of time.
a life in law
The Honorable Frank M. Coffin,
a distinguished member
of the United States judiciary,
passed away in December, 2009.
Judge Coffin was a role model to
so many and a committed friend
of the University of Maine School
of Law. His wisdom and intelligence,
his commitment to social
justice and public service, his
kindness and wit, his personal
warmth—we remember and
aspire to all these attributes.
Judge Coffin was appointed
to the U.S. Court of Appeals by
President Lyndon B. Johnson in
1965, and served as Chief Judge
from 1972 to 1983. He assumed
senior status in 1989 and retired
from the bench in 2006. His
commitment to public service
spanned a wide-ranging career,
including roles as a member of
Congress, Deputy Administrator
of the Agency for International
Development, Chair of the Committee
of the Judicial Branch for
the U.S. Judicial Conference,
and an active member of the University
of Maine School of Law
Board of Visitors.
We are honored here to
publish reflections from Jeffrey
S. Lehman, who served as clerk
to Judge Coffin in 1981. Lehman
currently is Chancellor and Dean
of the Peking University School of
Transnational Law in Shenzhen,
China. After clerking for Judge
Coffin, he clerked for former
Associate Justice John Paul Stevens
of the U.S. Supreme Court
and then practiced law in Washington,
D.C. He joined the faculty
of the University of Michigan in
1987 and was named Dean of
Michigan Law in 1994. In 2002,
he became the 11th president of
Cornell University.
– Peter Pitegoff,
Maine Law Dean
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Exploring a Career in Patents
{By Kate Kolosowski-Gager (‘12) and Jennifer Hess Tichy (’12) / Photo by René Minnis}
We started at the Intellectual Property Clinic as soon as possible
after our 1L year. We both had a particular interest in
the area, the requisite backgrounds (science degrees), and
we were both eager for some hands-on experience after surviving our
first year of law school.
the agency in Alexandria, Va., and interview for spring or summer
externships.
Suddenly a combination of finding a contact person for the intern
program and JetBlue offering inexpensive flights created an opportunity
for us to plan a visit to
The school’s participation
in the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office’s
Pilot Program provided
Jennifer Hess Tichy (left) and
Kate Kolosowski-Gager,
Maine Law students.
the agency.
We learned that working
for the USPTO has excellent
perks. Upon being
us with a unique oppor-
hired, all examiners attend
tunity to become limited-
the Patent Academy for four
representation agents with
months to learn how to use
the USPTO office for both
the USPTO’s unique search
patent and trademark cases.
programs.
We were able to complete
After this training, ex-
prior art searches, draft proaminers
go to work with
visional patents, respond to
their respective art units.
office actions, search and
The USPTO uses a flex-
file trademarks, and mantime
system, in which exage
our own files with suaminers
are not required to
pervision from Prof. Rita
be in the office 9-5, Mon-
Heimes and Prof. Leonard
day to Friday, but instead
Agneta.
must log a certain number
Toward the end of the
of hours, and meet certain
summer, we both became
production goals over a
interested in interning with
two-week period.
the USPTO. We were able
At the one-year mark,
to find an outdated posting
examiners are no longer on
for a since-discontinued
probation, and can begin
intern program, but that
to telecommute from home
was it. For the next two
one day per week. After
months, we sent a barrage
more training, examiners
of emails and spent at least
are given the option of relo-
two hours in the USPTO
cating anywhere they want,
phone tree.
and telecommuting from
In October, USPTO
home.
Director and Undersecre-
Both of us obtained
tary of Commerce David Kappos visited the law school and spent the spring externships that we were able to convert into summer ex-
entire day meeting with students, faculty and members of the pubternships that started in June of this year.
lic. Upon his return to Washington, the Intellectual Property Clinic The agency is hiring up to 1,000 patent examiners over the
started getting emails from people at the USPTO eager to help us tour next few years, and we both intend to join the agency, if we can.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
In each issue of Maine Law, we take a look at alumni
specializing in different fields. Our focus in this issue:
Entertainment
& Sports
“Maine Law provided me with the environment I needed to graduate, pass the Bar and work at the FCC
in Washington as a staff attorney in 1964. My goal was to own television and radio stations, and I built
three facilities—WPXT-TV, WJBQ-FM and WJAB-AM here in Portland. The Law School was critical in
developing the structure for my entrepreneurial endeavors in both Maine and elsewhere.”
John W. Bride (‘64), retired
Peter Carlisle is the driving force behind the success of Octagon’s Olympic & Action Sports division. An
expert at the forefront of the booming action sports industry for more than a decade, he has emerged
as a leader in the representation and marketing of Olympic and action sports athletes. He oversees a
global business that provides career management for Olympics and action sports clients through contract
negotiations, endorsements, licensing, merchandising opportunities and more. Before joining Octagon,
he founded Carlisle Sports Management and served as an attorney for Preti, Flaherty, Believeau, Pachios.
He has also served as an adjunct professor at Maine Law.
Peter Carlisle (‘94), Octagon
Paul J. Greene focuses his sports law practice on protecting athletes’ rights. He handles anti-doping and
eligibility arbitrations, rights of publicity matters, cybersquatting cases and immigration issues for athletes.
He has successfully represented, among others, the gold-medal winning U.S. Men’s Olympic Bobsled
Team and the Michael Phelps Foundation. Paul credits the University of Maine School of Law, where he
took a course in sports law, for giving him his start as a sports lawyer.
Paul J. Greene (‘07), Preti Flaherty
“As a professional runner, I competed against the world’s best. Maine Law gave me the training and vision
to explore new challenges in track and field. My sports practice is focused on representing individuals
and entities performing at the highest levels. My clients include the American Milers’ Association, NJNY
Track Club, and Andrew Wheating, a 2008 Olympian. I serve as legal correspondent for Letsrun.com, the
premier internet site for track and field news and results.”
Matthew E. Lane (‘09), Preti Flaherty
Gary Thorne says he has been fortunate in his broadcast career to have covered events such as the
Olympics, the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, MLB All Star games and a host of baseball, football,
basketball and hockey games. “The joy of the games survives despite the very big business nature of all
sports,” he says. “My law background has helped me understand much of the business aspects of the
game and integrate that knowledge into broadcasts. Most importantly, the law background provides the
thinking process that I hope gives a broadcast cohesiveness.”
Gary F. Thorne (‘73), sportscaster
MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 9

MAINE LAW NEWS
Catherine Lee Justice for Women
Lecture Fund
The University of Maine School of Law
Foundation is pleased to announce the creation
of the Catherine Lee Justice for Women
Lecture Fund. It enables Maine Law to host a
distinguished speaker annually who will focus
primarily on issues related to justice for women
and girls in the developing world.
This endowment was made possible by the
generous support of Catherine Lee, and we will
work to grow the Fund in the coming years.
Catherine Lee is an attorney and founder of
Lee International Business Development. She
advises clients globally, with her current practice
around greenhouse gas emissions trading.
Prior to establishing Lee International, she was
in private practice at a major law firm and concentrated
on environmental law. A graduate of
Barnard College and Cardozo School of Law,
she has been a leader in support and advancement
of women lawyers in Maine.
Maine Law is working with Catherine Lee
to establish a diverse Advisory Council that
will identify distinguished speakers for the Justice
for Women Lecture series. In addition to
presenting a public lecture, each invited speaker
will spend time with Maine Law students
in classes, workshops, or other programs. The
Women’s Law Association at the Law School
will play an active role in the Justice for Women
Lecture series.
Governance and Ethics Symposium
In April 2011, the Law School presented
its third annual Governance and Ethics Symposium:
Doing Well by Doing Good – The
‘Mega-Trend’ of Organizational Sustainability
and Social Responsibility. This timely program
marked a continuation of the Symposium’s
2009 and 2010 highly successful exploration
of cutting-edge governance and ethics issues.
Participants included leaders in business and
nonprofit corporations with experience in
sustainability, social responsibility, and stakeholder
issues on regional, national and global
fronts.
The series is co-chaired by Daniel Boxer,
former Chief Administrative Officer of Fairchild
Semiconductor and Maine Law Adjunct
Professor of Governance, and by Maine Law
Dean Peter Pitegoff. This year’s Symposium
panelists were: Charlie Broll, Vice President
and General Counsel of Nestlé Waters of
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2011 selected events
Data Security & Management
in Global Commerce:
thursday, July 28, University of
Maine school of law.
First-year Orientation:
thursday & friday, aug. 25-26.
Fall Term Begins:
Monday, aug. 29.
Constitution Day Lecture:
friday, sept. 16, University of
Maine school of law, Moot
court room.
The Olympic Movement:
Legal & Business
Perspectives: thursday, sept.
22, University of Maine school
of law.
19th Annual Frank M.
Coffin Lecture on Law and
Public Service: Presented
by Jonathan lash, president
of hampshire college and
former president of the world
resources institute. thursday,
oct. 20, abromson center,
University of southern Maine.
for additional information on these
and other events, please contact
the Dean’s office at 207-780-4344.
North America Inc. (parent of Poland Spring);
Paul Delva, Senior Vice President and General
Counsel of Fairchild Semiconductor;
Ellen golden, Managing Director of CEI
Investment Notes, Inc. (affiliate of Coastal Enterprises,
Inc,); Eileen Skinner, President and
CEO of Mercy Hospital; and Lisa k. Toner,
Vice President of Legal Affairs at Delhaize
America (parent of Hannaford). Daniel Boxer
and Tom Dunne, retired partner at Accenture,
moderated the discussion, following an introduction
by Dean Pitegoff.
Welcome to Professor Ghachem
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Malick ghachem
to the Maine Law faculty. Prof. Ghachem
holds undergraduate and law degrees
from Harvard University and a PhD in history
from Stanford University. For a number
of years in Boston, he practiced law in the areas
of criminal defense, employment discrimination,
and commercial litigation, and served
as a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is author of the forthcoming
book entitled, The Old Regime and the Haitian
Revolution, published by Cambridge University
Press. Prof. Ghachem teaches courses in
criminal law, criminal procedure, race and the
law, and legal history.
Professor Howard Retires
After 25 years of association with Maine
Law, H. Cabanne (“Cab”) Howard retired at
the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. He
joined the adjunct faculty in 1986 and, since
1997, has been Assistant Professor of Law. He
concurrently has served as Executive Secretary
to the Maine Judicial Committee on Judicial
Responsibility and Disability, a position he
will retain in the coming years. Prior to joining
the Law School, he worked for more than two
decades as Assistant Attorney General at the
Maine Attorney General’s Office. He graduated
from Cornell University and earned his
J.D. at Georgetown University, then clerked
for Hon. Edward T. Gignoux, U.S. District
Judge for the District of Maine. At Maine Law,
he taught a wide range of courses including
constitutional law, professional responsibility,
appellate advocacy, and public policy.
Harvey Fellowship
Devin Deane (’12) was selected as the inaugural
Harvey Fellow. The Charles Harvey
Fellowship Fund was created in memory of
Chuck Harvey, an esteemed lawyer and 1974
graduate of the University of Maine School
of Law, by his family, colleagues, and many
friends following his untimely death in 2009.
The fund supports a new program that provides
a month-long trial practice immersion
experience for a selected Maine Law student
each May and June. Devin Deane will work
closely with Mark Lavoie (’78) of Norman
Hanson & DeTroy who is serving as mentor
for the first year of the program.

Ryan Royce in DOJ Honors Program
Graduating student Ryan Royce (‘11) was
accepted into the highly competitive Honors
Program at the U.S. Department of Justice.
This program places a select group of recent
law school graduates in positions nationally
with the Department of Justice.
The prestige and experience of the Honors
Program provides participants with a valuable
rung on a legal career ladder. He will spend
his next two years with the DOJ Honors Program,
clerking for an Immigration Law Judge
in Dallas.
National Rankings
The University of Maine School of Law
was named this year as one of the best public
interest law schools and as welcoming to older
students, two signature elements of Maine
Law.
PreLaw magazine listed Maine Law
among the 40 top law schools in the nation
for public interest law. Princeton Review listed
Maine Law as No. 4 in the nation as most
welcoming to older students. And, the American
Institute for Economic Research ranked
Portland among the best college cities for
students, listing Portland at No. 20 among
metropolitan regions with a population of at
least 250,000.
Record Increase in Applications
In 2010, student applications to the University
of Maine School of Law increased by
more than 60 percent over the previous year.
This compared with a 7.4 percent increase in
applications to law schools nationwide.
The diverse entering class included students
from 20 states and 60 undergraduate
institutions. Applications in 2011 slipped
slightly, consistent with national trends, but
Maine Law continues to attract attention and
applicants nationwide and abroad.
Honorary Degree for Professor Rogoff
The Université du Maine in Le Mans,
France, has awarded University of Maine
School of Law Prof. Martin Rogoff with a
Doctor Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate).
This is a well-deserved recognition of Prof.
Rogoff’s many years of work with French legal
institutions and cooperative programs with
Maine Law.
IN MEMORIAM
• Christopher kevin Boyle, legal scholar
and barrister, died of cancer on Dec. 25,
2010. Boyle, who was a visiting professor at
Maine Law in 2000, was born on May 23,
1943. An internationally respected human
rights lawyer, activist and academic leader, he
served as Professor of Law and Director of
the Human Rights Centre at the University
of Essex in Colchester, England. As Dean
and Professor of Law at University College
Galway in Ireland, he was instrumental in
establishing Maine Law’s exchange program
in Galway.
• Louis B. Butterfield (’88) died on
June 29, 2010. He was born on May 19,
1963 in Charleston, S.C. While he practiced
in all areas of law, including civil litigation
with an emphasis on employment law, he
had extensive experience in anti-discrimination
cases. In addition to his law practice,
he developed a course of study and taught
employment discrimination law at Maine
Law. He graduated magna cum laude from
Maine Law in 1988 and was ranked second
in his class. While at Maine Law, he was a
member of the staff and board of editors of
the Maine Law Review, and he worked as a
legal writing instructor.
• Richard Lawrence Clawson (’67)
died on June 21, 2010 in Scarborough. He
was born in Portland on Nov. 2, 1934. He
served in the U.S. NATO forces in Europe
in the late 1950s. After he was discharged
from the Army, he attended the University
of Maine Portland, where he received his BA
in business. He then attended Maine Law.
After completing law school, he practiced law
at the Maine Pine Tree Council, and then
served as a contracts administrator in the
legal department at Hamilton Standard in
Connecticut. After leaving Hamilton Standard
he joined a law firm in Camden.
• amy keck (’99) died on Feb. 12,
2011, at Hospice House in Auburn. She was
born on Sept. 4, 1974. She graduated from
Brunswick High School in 1992, Mount
Holyoke College in 1996 and Maine Law
in 1999. She worked as an attorney at Pine
Tree Legal Assistance in the Bangor and
Lewiston offices. She was the 2009 recipient
of the Thomas P. Downing Award, which
recognizes those who work tirelessly to make
significant contributions to Maine’s lowincome
citizens.
• Emily Roosevelt (’96) died on April
11, 2010, at home in Park City, Utah. She
was born in White Plains, N.Y., on Aug.
13, 1969. She graduated from Whitby
School, the Millbrook School, the University
of Virginia, and Maine Law. She
clerked for Judge Monroe McKay of the
United States Court of Appeals for the 10th
Circuit in Salt Lake City, where she served
with distinction. In 2000, she joined the
United States Department of the Interior
Office of the Solicitor General, where she
worked tirelessly on behalf of public land
issues.
• Hon. James S. Russell (’78) died on
July 21, 2010. He was born on Dec. 20,
1948. He joined the U.S. Army and served
in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg.
He graduated from Maine Law and served
27 years as a JAG officer in the U.S. Army.
He then became an administrative law judge
with the Social Security Administration for
13 years until he retired.
• andrew g. Siket (’83) died on Aug.
2, 2010, in Florida. He was born on June
15, 1949 in Bangor. He graduated from the
University of Maine in Bangor, St. Mary’s
Seminary in Baltimore, and Maine Law. He
was an accomplished attorney admitted to
practice in Maine, Florida, North Carolina,
Colorado and Tennessee, as well as before
the United States Supreme Court, United
States Courts of Appeal for the First and
Eleventh Circuits, and U.S. District Courts
for the Districts of Maine, Colorado, Middle
District of Florida, and Southern District of
Florida.
• Schuyler g. Steele (’83) died on
March 8, 2010. He was born on June 16,
1958. He earned a BA at the University of
Maine in history, with highest honors and
highest distinction. He received his law
degree at Maine Law in 1983.
• David N. Weinstein (’71) died on
Dec. 21, 2009 after a lengthy battle with
brain cancer, in Bozeman, Mont., where he
had lived since 2008. He graduated from
Middlebury College in 1968 and from
Maine Law in 1971. Before retiring in 2008,
he practiced law in the private and public
sectors in Vermont for nearly 40 years.
MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SPRING 2011 11

Dave owen and sarah
schindler are focused on
real-world problem solving
{story by Rita Heimes/photo by René Minnis}
Maine Law Professors Dave Owen and Sarah Schindler at Portland’s East End Beach.
A passion for
Environmental Law
Maine law Professors Dave owen and sarah schindler
are focused on real-world problem solving.
{story by Professor Rita Heimes / photo by René Minnis}
The University of Maine School of Law
is surrounded by communities committed
to a healthy environment, clean
air, fresh water and locally grown food.
Thus, it is only fitting that two of the Law
School’s youngest faculty members (“rising
stars,” to quote Dean Peter Pitegoff) draw
on real-world experience and examples while
offering students a broad
range of courses in environmental
sustainability.
Professors Dave Owen
and Sarah Schindler dedicate
their teaching and
scholarship to the intersection
of environmental,
natural resources, property and land-use law.
Leveraging their recent experiences in law
practice and their mutual interest in helping
communities solve problems, their work ex-

plores how cities and towns can promote economic
and commercial development while
taking care of the environment.
Bringing environmental experience
Before joining the faculty in 2007, Prof.
Owen practiced environmental, land-use
and water law with Rossmann and Moore, a
small law firm in San Francisco. A graduate
of Berkeley Law, Prof. Owen drew upon his
prior career as a geologist to pursue his interest
in water quality and scarcity.
“Water resource management involves a
fascinating mix of law, science, history, and
politics,” he says. “It all gets intertwined in
interesting and complex
ways. Water law, which
is my favorite subject to
teach in law school, is one
of the most intellectually
stimulating and rich areas
of the law.”
“I’m teaching water law
in a way no one else is,” Prof. Owen continues.
“We do business-school-style case studies, based
on real, complex, water-law scenarios, and students
are encouraged to solve problems together.”
His students appreciate that approach.
“Prof. Owen’s passion and experience in
the field of environmental law really motivates
his students to match his level of enthusiasm
in the classroom every day,” says Peter
Glaser (’10). “The amount of preparation he
puts into his classes inspired me to work as
hard as he has, and I think that is a reflection
of his energy and devotion to the school and
the students.”
“The problem-based approach that
Professor Owen uses when teaching his
smaller seminars leads to a more thorough
understanding of the interplay between
different stakeholders in environmental
disputes, and fosters a deep level of
discussion that is not always present in the
case-based approach common in larger
classes.”
– David Kallin (’09), associate attorney,
Drummond & woodsum, Portland
Prof. Schindler also uses her unique background
as a land-use attorney with Morrison
and Foerster in San Francisco to help her students
understand how property and land-use
decisions affect their daily lives. For instance,
her land-use students were required to attend
planning commission hearings in small
towns in Maine, where they encountered
debates about the very issues taught in Prof.
Schindler’s class.
“My students realized that not just as lawyers,
but as citizens, they can have an impact
on the development process. They took from
the class that land-use decisions are community-building
decisions in their purest sense.”
Patrick Venne (’10) was so inspired by
Prof. Schindler’s class that he launched his
own land-use law practice in Portland.
“Prof. Schindler’s recent experience working
for a big-city law firm gives her a fresh
perspective on hot topics in land use law,
from classic eminent domain issues, to emerging
trends in land development like ‘new urbanism’
and ‘smart growth’,” Venne says. “She
is both inspirational and an immeasurably
valuable professional resource.”
Both professors have excelled in engaging
students in real-world environmental issues,
while conducting their own valuable research.
New approach to water planning
When one of his students wrote a paper
on an innovative new approach to water quality
planning, Prof. Owen realized the student
was on to something.
“He had written a smaller piece of a bigger,
interesting story that involved trying to
deal with water pollution and the impact of
development upon urban watersheds. I poked
around and discovered that the Long Creek
watershed community was developing some
of the most innovative solutions to urban water
pollution anywhere in the country.”
The Long Creek watershed is located in
South Portland, which is “Anywhere USA” in
they are dedicated to the intersection of environmental,
natural resources, property and land-use law.
many respects. Its airport, hotels, “big box”
retail stores, roads, and parking lots support
the shopping and travel demands of the
greater Portland urban region. But meeting
those demands comes with an environmental
cost. Long Creek, a small stream that winds
its way through the heart of this commercial
development and into Casco Bay, is heavily
polluted. Stormwater running off the many
roads, roofs, and parking lots in the Long
Creek watershed was bringing heavy loads of
salt, heat, metals, and other pollutants into
the stream, and Long Creek did not meet
state water quality standards. The problem,
“Professor Schindler is in large part why
I made the decision to establish my own
practice dedicated solely to land use issues
directly out of law school. I consider her one
of the best professors I have ever worked
with – at Maine Law or anywhere.”
– Patrick venne (’10), law office
of Patrick J. venne, Portland

Maine Law’s
environmental options
Over the last decade, a renewed commitment to environmental
stewardship by corporate clients has led more law firms
to specialize with practice areas called “green building,” “clean
tech” or even just “sustainability.”
With the courses offered by Professors Dave Owen and Sarah
Schindler, as well as Professor Charles Norchi, Director of the
Marine Law Institute, Maine Law’s students are now more prepared
than ever to succeed in these fields.
Courses in administrative law, water law, environmental law,
land use, real estate transactions, property law, animal law,
natural resources and marine law are all taught by full-time
faculty-scholars with practical experience in the field. Students
can explore many subjects and perspectives in preparation for
private or government practice, or consulting work.
“The suite of courses and the environmental externships I had
access to at Maine Law provided me with an immediately relevant
skill set,” says David Kallin (’09), an attorney at Drummond
Woodsum in Portland.
“Even in my first year of practice, I was able play a substantial
role in the representation of a number of the land trusts, municipalities
and environmental non-profits that my firm represents.
The tools I learned at Maine Law helped me shape my practice
of law around sustainability issues from the moment I began
practicing.”
Another former student, Nicholas Lund (’10), is now a fellow
with the National Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi.
A passionate environmentalist and outdoorsman, Lund
found that his interests in environmental and property law were
more than satisfied at Maine Law.
“Adding professors on the front lines of their disciplines—not
only closely following and analyzing developments, but also
contributing to them—is an exciting achievement for the school,”
he says.
“Because Maine is a state with a whole lot worth protecting,”
Lund adds, “incoming students expect Maine Law to have a
strong environmental law program. The school could not have
made a better choice than Professor Dave Owen to lead our
environmental law program.”
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which scientists often refer to as “urban stream
syndrome,” recurs across much of the American
landscape.
“There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
urban watersheds in the United States that fall
into the same circumstance,” says Prof. Owen.
“It’s a local example of a national problem.”
With no individual pipe or single source of pollution
to focus regulatory attention on, it also is
a difficult problem to solve.
Prof. Owen acquired funding to study South
Portland’s community-driven water quality initiative,
and the student, Peter Glaser (’10), went
on to serve as his research assistant.
The initiative has an interesting history.
While many communities had struggled to find
legal mechanisms to address their polluted urban
streams, the Conservation Law Foundation, a
New England-based environmental group, had
uncovered a little-known provision in the Clean
Water Act that required multiple property owners
contributing to the stream’s poor water quality
to obtain Clean Water Act permits. Rather
than fight that requirement, and face a lawsuit
that would take years to resolve, the City of
South Portland, along with local businesses, the
chamber of commerce, the state environmental
protection agency and environmental advocacy
groups, developed a “collective permit” to cover
the entire developed area threatening water quality
of the local urban stream.
It was, as Prof. Owen observed, an example
of “good, smart people behaving well.”
Prof. Owen’s first paper on the subject, “Urbanization,
Water Quality, and the Regulated
Landscape,” which will be published this year in
the Colorado Law Review, tells the Long Creek
story and considers some of the broader implications
for urban, water-quality protection. He
continues to follow the Long Creek initiative,
and is now working with a multi-disciplinary
team of researchers to consider urban, waterquality
issues across the state.
Converting blight to beauty
Prof. Owen’s project was designed to impact
the way local communities take responsibility for
their own environmental and land-use decisions.
He has many reasons and opportunities to share
ideas with Prof. Schindler, who approaches her
scholarship in a similar way. She, too, proposes
local solutions to problems replicated nationwide.
Prof. Schindler’s desire to help cities improve
their land-use governance systems arose while she
was in private practice, representing commercial
property developers. She loved the plans arrayed
on her desk, the idea that in a short time some-

GIS, Maps and Regulatory Cooperation
Professor Dave Owen is puzzled. When he researches articles on
environmental and land use law, he sees almost no mention of
Geographic Information Systems. Yet land use planning is crucially
tied to maps and geo-coded data.
“Few people have really stopped to think about implications of
a GIS-driven environmental planning and policy world for some
of our legal debates,” Owen observes. “It really matters to urban
stream protection, which involves linking land use planning with
water quality concerns, and has implications for air quality, wildlife
habitat protection, and other areas of environmental preservation or
restoration.”
A map can be a powerful tool to help planners visualize areas
and express multiple layers of data in one visual image. As regulators
work to integrate myriad environmental laws at local and
national levels, Prof. Owen predicts, “mapping can help identify
locations where development works with all their purposes and
goals, and locations where it doesn’t work with any.”
It can also help temper potential conflicts between local land
use decisions and enforcement of federal environmental laws.
“Mapping could give state and local land use planners the tools to
talk to federal regulators about how to meet their various goals all
at once,” says Prof. Owen, who intends to direct future research to
GIS mapping issues and environmental planning.
thing new would be created, and the impact a
new development can have on a community’s
sense of place. For Prof. Schindler, “It’s about
the dirt.”
At the same time, Prof. Schindler was
unsatisfied with helping her clients succeed
without also giving back.
“I would think about what we could do
to help the community in which we were
building. Communities have a lot to gain by
becoming involved in development projects,
by becoming aware of what’s going on around
them.”
Prof. Schindler observed local governments
interested in creating “green” building
standards simply adopting the Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
standards without tailoring them to local
conditions. Those LEED standards were created
by the U.S. Green Building Council, a
non-profit organization comprising builders
and industry groups. Prof. Schindler noted
that the LEED standards were created as a
voluntary marketing mechanism, and were
not designed to act as sound municipal law.
In an article published in the Florida Law
Review, Prof. Schindler asserted that instead
of merely adopting these industry-generated
standards, cities should create their own green
building ordinances keyed to their own par-
ticular building-related environmental externalities.
“In Las Vegas, there is a water shortage;
in Manhattan, there is a heat island effect
from the miles of pavement and black-topped
roofs; in Maine we have issues with our heating
systems,” she says. “If cities are going to
require green buildings, they should adopt
locally tailored ordinances that are subject to
public, local review processes.”
Prof. Schindler’s most recent work examines
how town ordinances can (and should)
work to alleviate the blight and community
degradation caused by abandoned “big box”
retail stores. The issue plagues cities all across
the U.S., as retail giants like Circuit City and
Borders head into bankruptcy, and behemoth
Wal-Mart closes its older, smaller stores and
opens new superstores within a few miles of
the former ones.
“In many communities, when these big
boxes fail, they leave a hole in the social fabric
of the community,” Prof. Schindler explains.
“People are less likely to enjoy their neighbor-
“Professors owen and schindler integrate theory and
practice in the best sense.” – Dean Peter Pitegoff
hood and care about it when it’s blighted. A
single broken window will draw more broken
windows.”
The solutions are elusive, as private lease
agreements may prevent new tenants from
competing with the abandoning one, or com-
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“Locavores” and the Law
Professor Sarah Schindler has found a way to combine her love of and respect for animals
with her passion for property law.
In addition to teaching a course on Animal Law, Prof. Schindler is investigating the conflict
between local zoning laws and “locavores” – people who want to leave a lighter impact, and
eat primarily what is grown or raised near where they live.
“In a lot of ways, food law and policy are inherently tied to the land and land use,” she says.
“Consider how zoning ordinances relating to urban agriculture and the size and placement of
vegetable gardens impact a person’s ability to grow her own food.”
Other examples are zoning laws or neighborhood covenants that impact whether people
can raise chickens in their backyards, or hang laundry out to dry. These are issues she hopes
to pursue in her future scholarship.
mercial landlords may have difficulty filling
the space with a similar retail giant and even
more difficulty renovating the vast, windowless
space for multiple tenants.
Big box developers and commercial tenants
may desire to be good citizens, but remain
beholden to the bottom line and at the
mercy of market forces.
Local governments, Prof. Schindler believes,
are therefore obliged to make sound
development decisions in the first place, and
then deal proactively
with vacant stores
to turn blight into
beauty.
In an article she
is writing on the subject,
she examines
when local governments
should consider
adaptive re-use of
the space, and when
they should consider
demolition and
reconstruction, or
demolition and “regreening,”
turning the
lot into a park or other
public open space
for people to gather.
“Cities have a
huge opportunity to
build community if
“in many communities,
when these big boxes
fail, they leave a hole in
the social fabric of the
community.
– Sarah Schindler
they’re smart about it. They can create new
open space, or build a public garden. Their
choices can have a tremendous positive impact
on property values and the citizens’ sense
of place.”
A commitment to students
Both professors bring youthful energy,
passion for their subjects, and a blend of the-
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ory and pragmatism that make their courses
uniquely enriching for students, who also appreciate
their accessibility.
“Prof. Owen really cares about the subjects
he teaches, and genuinely hopes to instill
in others a level of fascination similar to his
own,” says Patrick Venne (’10).
“And I consider Schindler one of the best
professors I have ever worked with, at Maine
Law or anywhere. Any school would be more
than lucky to count them both among their
faculty.
“Prof. Schindler
was always more than
willing to discuss topics
in or out of the
classroom, and Prof.
Owen’s availability to
discuss matters outside
of the lecture hall
is also unrivaled.”
Maine Law’s ap-
pointment of two
full-time professors
devoted to these issues
reflects the
school’s commitment
to preparing students
for meaningful careers
in environmental
law. It amplifies the
school’s robust role in
the wider community,
studying and enhancing local policy with an
opportunity for national impact.
As Dean Pitegoff says, “Professors Owen
and Schindler, along with colleagues in our
Marine Law Institute, inform and influence
policy on a national and global level. Contributing
locally and using Maine as a laboratory,
they integrate theory and practice in the best
sense.” ML
Dave Owen is Associate Professor at the University
of Maine School of Law. Appointed in 2007,
Prof. Owen worked previously in private practice
in San Francisco specializing in environmental,
land use, and water law and, before his legal career,
as a geologist for an environmental consulting
firm. He currently is lead researcher on an
interdisciplinary project examining water quality
impacts of urbanization and a faculty member
of Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative.
Prof. Owen earned his JD from University
of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt
Hall) and clerked for Judge Samuel Conti of the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California.
Sarah Schindler is Associate Professor at the
University of Maine School of Law. Appointed
in 2009, Prof. Schindler previously was a visiting
faculty member at the University of Georgia
School of Law and practiced in the area of land
use and environmental law in San Francisco.
Her research focuses on emerging trends in
municipal land use law and sustainable development.
Prof. Schindler earned her JD summa
cum laude from the University of Georgia School
of Law and clerked for Judge Will Garwood of
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Rita Heimes is Clinical Professor at the University
of Maine School of Law and Director of
the Center for Law & Innovation. Since 2001,
she has played a lead role in building the Center
for Law & Innovation and the Maine Patent
Program as vibrant programs for public service,
teaching, and research and as a state resource.
Prof. Heimes, who previously practiced law in
Seattle, Boulder, and Portland, founded and
oversees the Law School’s nationally recognized
Intellectual Property Clinic. She earned her JD
with honors from Drake University Law School
and clerked for Judge Robert Beezer of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Franco-American Legal Seminar professors and students at the Château de Rochambeau. (Photo courtesy of Amber Collins)
Why did 15 Maine Law students
spend their spring break at
France’s Senate, at the castle of
the Count of Rochambeau, at France’s oldest
restaurant, Le Procope, and at many other
historic and significant sites in France?
These students, along with three faculty
members and Maine Law partners in
France, were participating in this year’s
Franco-American Legal Seminar, just
one example of Maine Law’s commitment
to making connections around the
world in order to prepare students for an
increasingly global legal market.
The Franco-American Legal Seminar, now
in its 16th year, is the brainchild of Prof. Martin
Rogoff, who first negotiated this scholarly
and student exchange and continues to di-
Global reach
{By Professor Christopher Knott}
rect the program. Seminar participants (from
Maine Law and the Faculté de Droit of the
Université du Maine, at Le Mans, in France)
set a topic each year and invite interested
students in each institution to enroll in a se-
mester-long seminar culminating in scholarly
papers drafted and presented by each student.
This year’s topic of study was “Environmental
Catastrophes: Prevention and Response.”
In March, the 15 participating Maine Law
students and professors Rogoff, Charles Norchi
and Sarah Schindler traveled to France
to meet their French counterparts. Stopping
first in Paris for meetings with dignitaries
and tours of significant government sites, the
Maine law is building worldwide connections for
faculty and students.
group then traveled to Le Mans for several
days. There, students and faculty from both
schools shared the results of their research.
Maine Law students and professors travel
to France every second year, with students
MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 17

At the center of Maine Law’s
global outreach efforts:
David Cluchey is Professor of Law at the University
of Maine School of Law. Appointed initially in 1979
after six years of legal practice in Maine, he served as
Associate Dean from 1987-1991 and from 2000-2004. Prof.
Cluchey specializes in law and the economy and teaches
antitrust, economic regulation, business associations,
international trade law, and professional responsibility. He
has a long-standing interest in the people, culture and
economy of Russia. He spent three months in Moscow in
1994 as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Finance Academy of
the Government of the Russian Federation, and he served as Director of the
ABA-accredited St. Petersburg Summer Law Program during five subsequent
summers in St. Petersburg. He has traveled to Russia as a consultant to the
U.S.A.I.D. Rule of Law program and to teach courses in American/Russian
Business and Trade Law. Prof. Cluchey is a graduate of Yale University,
received his Masters degree from the State University of New York at Albany,
and earned his J.D. at Harvard University.
Charles Norchi is Professor of Law and Director of
the Marine Law Institute at the University of Maine
School of Law. He teaches public international law and
oceans law. His current research focuses on law and
nation-building, international boundary delimitation,
maritime security, and ocean and sovereign claims of
China. Prof. Norchi manages comparative marine law
projects with the University of Nantes in France, the Centre
for Maritime and Transport Law of the City University of
Hong Kong, and the International Maritime Law Institute in
Malta. He is a Research Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance
in the Kennedy School at Harvard, Chair-elect of the Admiralty and Maritime
Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and a National
Fellow of the Explorers Club. He earned an A.B. from Harvard College, a J.D.
from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and an LL.M. and a
J.S.D from Yale Law School.
Martin Rogoff is a Maine Law Foundation Professor
at the University of Maine School of Law. Since
joining the Maine Law faculty in 1972, he has taught and
published extensively in the area of international law with
particular attention to France. He founded and directs
the annual French-American Legal Seminar, engaging
students and faculty from both nations in an intensive
exchange of ideas and meetings with leaders in the
bench and bar in France and the United States, and
played a lead role in establishing exchange programs
with several universities in Europe. Professor Rogoff has been active in
public policy at both the state and national levels. He graduated from
Cornell University and Yale Law School, and earned a masters degree at the
University of California at Berkeley.
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from France visiting the U.S. in the off years.
Next year’s seminar, which will focus on law
and religion, will include a visit to Washington,
D.C., before students meet in Maine for
scholarly presentations. Many students describe
the seminar as the most valuable and
enjoyable part of their studies.
Global commitment
Exposing students to foreign legal systems,
exploring legal topics comparatively with
peers from other nations, and simply traveling
to Europe for scholarly exchange, all demonstrate
Maine Law’s commitment to global
engagement by its faculty and students.
Along with the Franco-American Legal
Seminar, Maine Law’s foreign exchange program
for students is one of the Law School’s
most popular offerings. Students compete each
term for a limited number of seats in partner
law schools around the world. In addition to
exchange agreements with two law schools
in France (at Le Mans and Cergy-Pointoise),
students can choose among law schools in
Canada (Dalhousie, New Brunswick), Great
Britain (Buckingham), Hong Kong (City University
of Hong Kong), and Ireland (Galway).
Typically, a Maine Law student is in residence
at a partner law school for one semester,
living among the students there, taking a representative
course load, and integrating with
the students and faculty in all aspects of law
school life. This opportunity grows in popularity
every year, as returning students spread
Maine Law student Laura Rideout (‘12)
in Paris.

the word about the value of the educational
and social experiences.
A prime example of Maine Law’s efforts
has been its use of a multi-year grant from
the Government of France Partners University
Fund. This generous grant has allowed
Maine Law to strengthen student and faculty
exchanges between Maine Law and its French
partners. The grant is focused on developing
a comparative marine law program, building
upon one of Maine Law’s curricular and research
strengths. Even at the early stages of
the lifetime of this grant, the Law School and
its French counterparts have collaborated in
a number of ways; conferences, faculty exchanges,
student work in a variety of settings,
all designed to bear future fruit in the form of
more formalized joint programs of study for
students from the participating law schools.
The ultimate goal of Maine Law’s participation
is to capitalize on the opportunities to establish
mutually supporting programs which
will benefit the Law School by increasing both
the depth and breadth of its global presence.
And new exchange programs will allow
Maine Law to offer more students this valuable
semester away. In return, partner law
schools send Maine a number of students every
year. These students add a great deal to
the life of the Law School, and many students
have made lifelong friends and colleagues
through these visits.
Program leaders
At the heart of Maine Law’s global efforts
are professors Martin Rogoff, David Cluchey
and Charles Norchi.
In addition to leading the Franco-American
Seminar each year, Prof. Rogoff has,
for many years, been Maine Law’s leader in
international, comparative and foreign law.
Prof. Rogoff teaches a wide variety of courses,
most of which focus on other legal systems,
other nations, or comparing approaches to
legal problems in different countries. In his
scholarship, too, Prof. Rogoff demonstrates
his broad range, publishing in several different
languages and in the leading legal journals
in the U.S., France and Italy. He has been the
driving force behind many of Maine Law’s exchanges
and programs, and has forged close
ties around the world. This year, Prof. Rogoff
is receiving a rare distinction. The Université
du Maine is awarding him the Doctor Honoris
Causa (Honorary Doctorate) degree. His
efforts throughout his career have resulted
in many opportunities for study and work
around the world for Maine Law students.
Summer often finds Prof. David Cluchey
in St. Petersburg, Russia, teaching international
trade law. Three U.S. law schools jointly
administer the St. Petersburg Summer Law
Program, and Prof. Cluchey, who speaks Russian,
has taught in and directed the program
on many occasions since 1995. A number of
Maine Law students have participated in the
program, and this summer two Maine Law
students will join Prof. Cluchey in St. Petersburg.
Occasionally, Prof. Cluchey’s close connections
to the Summer Program and to the
Russian-American Legal Education Foundation,
on whose board he sits, have resulted in a
Russian law student choosing to spend a year
visiting Maine Law, which is slated to welcome
one such visitor in the 2011-12 academic year.
From left, Maine Law professors Sarah
Schindler and Martin Rogoff, and Myriam
Roussille, Professor of Law at the Université du
Maine (Le Mans, France), at the Gala Dinner
for this year’s Franco-American Legal Seminar,
held in Rennes.
In addition to obtaining and managing
the French Partners University Fund grant,
Prof. Charles Norchi has led Maine Law’s
efforts to forge closer ties with Asia. Prof.
Norchi has served as a visiting faculty member
and on the advisory board of the City
University of Hong Kong School of Law. A
very popular student exchange program with
that school is entering its third year, and students
have established lasting connections
with their counterparts in Hong Kong. This
term, for the first time, Prof. Norchi is using
Maine Law’s improved technological capabilities
to bridge physical distances by offering
a seminar to students in both law schools
simultaneously. In practical terms, that means
Maine Law students starting class quite early
in the day, and students in Hong Kong beginning
class very late in the evening—in order
to take the time difference into account. By
all accounts, this joint examination of oceans
law issues has proven successful, and is but a
hint of closer collaborations to come. Prof.
Norchi is also an expert on Afghanistan and
the Congo, and that expertise has resulted in
increased opportunities for students to engage
in meaningful work internationally.
The future
What’s next for Maine Law as it seeks to
open up the world’s legal opportunities to its
students? The School is deeply committed to
expanding its presence around the world. Building
upon past successes, and finding new ways
to create connections with lawyers, scholars and
students in other nations is a high priority. Already,
Maine Law graduates study and practice
in many different countries. The School’s goal is
to continue to create those opportunities, and to
prepare students to take their place as leaders in
the new global legal marketplace.
Maine Law is currently planning the establishment
of a post-professional LL.M.
program. Focused primarily on attracting
foreign-trained lawyers to study for a year
at Maine Law, the LL.M. (Master of Laws)
program will strengthen ties with foreign law
schools, law students and law faculties. Once
the program has been fully approved by the
University of Maine System and the American
Bar Association, Maine Law intends to
offer the degree first to a small number of foreign-trained
lawyers and students each year.
The School is also working diligently to
increase the number and kind of global opportunities
open to students. In the near future,
Maine Law will have at least two additional
student exchange agreements, with law schools
in Rennes and Nantes, France. As the practice
of law becomes increasingly global, Maine Law
will prepare its students to compete and to succeed
anywhere in the world. Every year that
passes, every successful exchange, every Maine
Law alum working in Africa, India or Switzerland,
enriches the Maine Law experience for
each new class of students. ML
Prof. Chris knott is Vice Dean and Director
of the Garbrecht Law Library at the University
of Maine School of Law. He joined Maine Law
in 2006 after serving as librarian and adjunct
professor at Columbia University Law School
and the Georgetown University Law Center,
and he currently serves as President of the Law
Librarians of New England. He previously engaged
in the private practice of law with a focus
in corporate transactions and commercial litigation.
Dean Knott is a graduate of the University
of Iowa and the University of Michigan Law
School, and he earned his masters degree in library
science from Indiana University.
MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 19

Maine Law Professor Lois Lupica.
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Measuring the cost
of bankruptcy law
Professor Lois Lupica is
studying the impact of changes
made to bankruptcy law in 2005
{By Professor Jennifer Wriggins / photo by René Minnis}
A
University of Maine School of Law
professor’s initial research on the
impact of 2005’s bankruptcy law
changes reveals a more expensive
consumer bankruptcy system.
According to the Congressional Record,
the sweeping changes made to bankruptcy
law in 2005 were intended to improve bankruptcy
law by “restoring personal responsibility
and integrity in the bankruptcy system and
ensur[ing] that the system is fair for both debtors
and creditors.”
However, these changes were made without
consideration of empirical data about
their likely effects on consumers. In fact, preliminary
empirical research by Professor Lois
R. Lupica finds that the consequences of the
2005 amendments, such as increased consumer
costs and decreased distributions to unsecured
creditors, may have been contrary to
what was intended.
Charting the 2005 Act’s impact
Prof. Lupica has been working since early
2010 as the principal investigator on a national
study, sponsored by the American Bankruptcy
Institute Foundation and the National Conference
of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment for
Education, on the effects of the Bankruptcy
Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection
Act of 2005. The study, known as The National
Consumer Bankruptcy Costs Study, grew out
of Prof. Lupica’s work as a Robert M. Zinman
Scholar-in-Residence at the American Bank-

uptcy Institute inWashington, D.C. in 2007.
With the assistance of an economist/
statistician (Dr. Michael Donihue, Professor
of Economics at Colby College) and seven
Maine Law second- and third-year students,
Prof. Lupica has been coding and analyzing
the data gleaned from about 10,000 consumer
bankruptcy cases. In addition, she has conducted
more than a dozen focus groups, and
administered survey instruments to consumer
bankruptcy lawyers, trustees and judges, in order
to gather qualitative data that will aid in
making connections between various quantitative
variables.
Lupica’s study was described by the American
Bankruptcy Institute as “the most extensive
empirical measurement to date of the additional
burdens placed on consumer debtors
by the 2005 amendments.” The final report is
expected to be available in December 2011.
Before embarking upon the National
Consumer Bankruptcy Costs
Study, Prof. Lupica conducted a Pilot
Study of Consumer Bankruptcy
Costs in 2009. The Pilot Study, using
exacting statistical analysis and
focusing on federal districts in six
states, indicates that costs have risen
—especially attorney fees—while
payments to unsecured creditors
in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
bankruptcy cases have actually decreased
since the enactment of the
legislation.
In considering the Pilot Study’s
findings Lupica noted, “I was not surprised
that it costs consumers more to file for bankruptcy
after the amendments, but I was surprised
at how much more. Given that consumer
bankruptcy is a zero-sum game, the
policy question is whether having consumers
pay more to access bankruptcy system is the
best use of their finite pool of assets.”
In the past year, the Pilot Study findings
have been presented to judicial and attorney
audiences around the country.
When Congress considered the legislation
that eventually became the 2005 Bankruptcy
Act, Prof. Lupica was one of the leaders who
warned of the potential consequences of the
new law. Central to her analysis was the failure
of Congress to legislate based on sufficient
data about the law’s impact on consumers.
So, when the bankruptcy amendments
were passed in 2005, Prof. Lupica was perfectly
positioned to evaluate the effects of the
new law. Her time as Resident Scholar at the
American Bankruptcy Institute gave her the
national visibility to propose and design the
national study of the effects of the legislation.
A leader on debtor-creditor issues
Prof. Lupica has long been a national leader
on debtor-creditor issues. During her 17year
career at the University of Maine School
of Law, she has published numerous articles
examining different aspects of debtor-creditor
relationships.
Starting with her 1998 article in the Texas
Law Review, which sounded one of the first
warnings of the risks inherent in asset securitization
transactions, she has continued to
focus her scholarly research on the important
intersection of bankruptcy, complex financing
techniques and consumer protection—all
courses that she teaches.
Her scholarly career has focused on the
effective regulation of complex markets with
a concentration on consumer protection.
Her most recent articles
have documented how her concerns
about securitization and related issues
came to fruition during the
financial crisis of 2008-2009. She
has also proposed solutions to help
ameliorate the worst of the damage.
Dealing with the consequences
of the financial crisis closer to home,
Prof. Lupica has provided trainings
and presentations for attorneys and
mediators through Maine Attorneys
Savings Homes, which is a joint
project of Pine Tree Legal Assistance
and the Volunteer Lawyers Project.
Prof. Lupica’s work is a perfect example
of how prescient, passionate scholarship and
teaching translate into service and public policy.
Legal scholarship like hers has significant
practical and public policy dimensions. Her
work will inform the continuing debate about
financial regulation and consumer protection,
particularly in the bankruptcy setting. ML
Prof. Lois Lupica is a Maine Law Foundation
Professor at the University of Maine School
of Law. Appointed in 1995, Prof. Lupica previously
worked in private practice in New York
City on domestic and international transactions
and developed a clinical program in affordable
housing development at Seton Hall University
School of Law. She is a national expert in
bankruptcy law and policy and is currently
principal investigator for a major study on the
impact of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act.
Prof. Lupica earned her JD with high honors
from Boston University School of Law.
Professor
Lupica’s work
is a perfect
example of
how prescient,
passionate
scholarship
and teaching
translate into
service and
public policy.
MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 21

At issue:
Race & Law
Professor Jennifer Wriggins‘ The Measure of Injury looks at
the evolution of race and tort law in the United States
Prof. Jennifer Wriggins, the Sumner T. Bernstein Professor of Law and
Associate Dean for Research at the University of Maine School of Law,
specializes in Torts, Insurance Law, and Family Law. Upon receiving
her JD, Prof. Wriggins served as Clerk to the Hon. Edward T. Gignoux,
U.S. District Judge in Portland, Maine. Her book, “The Measure of
Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law” (NYU Press 2010, co-authored
with Professor Martha Chamallas of Ohio State
University) was published in spring 2010. She
has published articles in the areas of torts, insurance,
and family law, with a focus on race and
gender. She graduated magna cum laude with
distinction in philosophy from Yale College and
cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Q
: Torts is a subject that includes
personal injury law, products liability,
defamation and malpractice. What does it
have to do with race?
A
: Given how law is steeped in history,
and given how U.S. history is steeped
in race and racism, I think it is fair to say
that every law school subject has aspects that
relate to race. Torts is no exception. African-
Americans brought tort claims for personal
injuries in this country from the end of
slavery on.
As tort plaintiffs, they had access to
the legal system, which is surprising, given
how racist law and social practices were
in different ways up until about 1950.
Virtually no legal scholars have written
about this, although courts consistently
identified the race of the plaintiff bringing
a tort lawsuit if the plaintiff was not seen as white, up until the
1950s. However, black plaintiffs were not treated equally. A variety
of evidence shows that their claims were devalued on the basis of
race. A “race-based discount” often was applied to their claims —
in settlement, at trial, and on appeal. It is a complex story that is a
part of our history.
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{By Elena Brandt / photo by René Minnis}
Q
: What is an example of this “race-based discount” in torts?
A
: One example is a case from about a century ago. Henry Griffin
was a black Pullman porter. Daniel Brady was the President
of Brady Brass Company, and brother of Diamond Jim Brady, one
of the richest financiers of
the “gilded age” – white of
course. Brady accused Griffin
of stealing his wallet and Griffin
was put in jail, probably
overnight. The theft charge
turned out to be false, and
Griffin was set free.
Griffin then sued Brady
for false imprisonment, and
won a $2,500 verdict before a
jury, in New York City, which
would have been all-white
since blacks weren’t allowed
on juries at the time. This
was about $52,000 in today’s
dollars. Then the trial judge,
Judge Dugro, told Griffin and
his lawyer that the verdict was
too high. The judge said in
open court: “[I]n one sense, a
colored man is just as good as
a white man, for the law says
he is, but he has not the same
amount of injury under all
circumstances that a white man
would have . . . . In [NYC], the
amount of evil that would flow
to the colored man from a charge like this would not be as great
as it probably would be to a white man.” He slashed the award to
$300 and this was upheld on appeal.
Q
: That’s one example, but it could be an isolated case. Are there
others?

A
: Sure. I have read hundreds of tort cases that have to do with
race, and it is a complex picture. I tried to create a collective
picture by reading all the appellate wrongful death cases from
Louisiana from 1865-1950 that discussed damages. This was a total
of 152 cases, 26 of which were brought by African-Americans. The
average award for loss of a white family member was more than twice
the average award for loss of a black family member – $8,245 for loss
of a white family member; $3,559 for loss of a black family member.
Similarly, the median award for loss of a white family member was
more than twice the median award for loss of a black family member.
This and other material make me think there was a widespread racebased
discount for African-Americans’ tort claims.
Q
: How did you become interested in the intersection of race and
torts?
A
: First, I got questions from
students in my Maine Law torts
classes about race and tort law that
I could not answer without doing
research. The articles that I wanted to
find so that I could give the information
to my students did not exist! So, I
researched and wrote the articles – and
then, the book.
Another impetus came from
practicing law, which I did for 12 years
before becoming a law professor. I
represented many children in Massachusetts
who had been exposed to lead
paint in lawsuits against their landlords,
at a law firm in Cambridge, Mass., Pressman & Kruskal. Massachusetts
had a strict liability statute for lead paint poisoning.
Many if not most of the children were African-American, Haitian,
or Latino/a. Several surprising things happened in those lawsuits
that affected my scholarship. First, occasionally defense lawyers
would explicitly bring up the race of the injured children, like this:
“A jury would not award Haitian kids that much money.” This seems
like a race-based discount.
Second, lead paint can cause cognitive injury; in sufficient quantities
lead exposure lowers the IQs of children. In the lawsuits, what
happened was this: lawyers for landlords would often get permission
from judges to test the IQ of the children’s mother and also perform
psychological tests on her. They were arguing that the child’s low IQ
was caused by the mother rather than by the illegal lead paint. This
was common, and was operating under the radar screen in pretrial
discovery. In virtually every instance, the mother was a member of a
racial minority.
To me, this was an extraordinary intrusion into the mother’s
privacy. After all, the mother was not suing for anything. I thought
this probably would not happen if the mothers had been white; it
tied in with a long history of racism in connection with IQ testing.
Also, I thought this raised gender issues because the mothers were
being blamed for the children’s IQ, while there wasn’t a similar focus
on the fathers. I wrote a law review article about this as soon as I got
to Maine Law. It was published in the Boston University Law Review.
One of my most thrilling moments as a scholar was a few years later
when I got a letter from a judge in Washington D.C., Stefan Graae,
Maine Law Professor Jennifer Wriggins
who had written a very influential opinion allowing such tests. In
my article, I had dissected his opinion and tried to show how very
wrong it was. His letter to me said that my article had caused him
to change his mind. He enclosed an opinion he wrote not allowing
those unconsented IQ tests any more. Many judges followed his
example and stopped allowing such tests.
Q
: What about now? The widespread perception, I think, is that
race and gender are no longer such an issue.
A
: One way in which race and gender still matter in torts is that
race-based and gender-based tables are routinely used to estimate
lost future earnings of tort plaintiffs in some situations. For example,
when a person is seriously injured who does not have a specific earnings
history – like a child for example
– part of her tort damages may be lost
future earnings. Expert economists
will testify about lost earnings, and
these have to be estimated, essentially
predicted. Such experts often turn to
earnings tables from the Department of
Commerce or other sources which are
divided by race and gender.
The earnings tables show that men
overall earn more than women, and
that whites earn more than blacks.
Experts will then match the race and
gender of the injured plaintiff to the
tables and use that as a basis to predict
the lost future earnings of the injured
plaintiff. I think this is using race and gender in court in a way that
is unconstitutional, because it is using a race-based and gender-based
classification to affect an individual without any compelling reason.
It’s essentially a continuation of the race-based discount, in my
view. My co-author, Martha Chamallas, and I have been writing
about this for years. In Canada, there has been lots of discussion of
these issues and also some in Israel.
Q
: Has your criticism made a difference?
A
: In one high-profile case, yes. There was a terrible accident involving
the Staten Island Ferry in 2003, in which 11 people were
killed. New York City, which operated the ferry, was quite clearly
negligent and violated its own safety regulations. Only one pilot had
been on the bridge, contrary to the rules, and he passed out, leading
to the crash. One passenger was James McMillan, an African-
American man. The accident caused him to be a quadriplegic. The
city, because it was clearly negligent, was liable for his future medical
expenses. So the issue of his life expectancy arose. The city offered
life expectancy tables of African-American quadriplegics, arguing that
he would live a shorter time because he was black and male and that
therefore they owed him less.
Federal District Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District
of New York wrote an opinion citing my scholarship and that of
Martha Chamallas, deciding that using the race-based tables was
unconstitutional. We hope that the tide is turning. ML
MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 23

Juvenile Justice Clinic
Hands-on work that matters
From left to right: Matthew Peacock, Joseph Zamboni (standing), Meghan Ogren, Amber Collins (standing), Jeffrey Shafto, Michael Dixon (standing)
and Elyse Apantaku (standing). Matthew, Joseph, Meghan, Amber and Michael are student attorneys (third-year students) in the Juvenile Justice
Clinic. Jeffrey is a former Juvenile Justice student attorney who is working in Portland as a solo practitioner. Elyse is a second-year-student who is
the clinic’s summer Juvenile Justice Policy intern.
The University of Maine School of Law’s
Juvenile Justice Clinic offers students,
difficult, high-stakes work that provides
valuable hands-on lessons and forms the
genesis of policy work.
In 2006, the University of Maine School
of Law responded to challenges set forth in an
assessment by the American Bar Association
that detailed statewide problems of access to
counsel and quality of representation in delinquency
cases. (The assessment, “Maine: An
Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality
of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings,”
was published in 2003.)
Professors Deirdre Smith and James Burke
decided to expand Maine Law’s clinical offerings
to include a program dedicated to improving
representation of children. The result:
Maine Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic.
With generous help from the Sam L. Cohen
Foundation, the Maine Bar Foundation,
many alumni and other supporters, Maine
24 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011
{By Professor Christopher Northrop / photos by René Minnis}
Law committed the resources to build this
clinical program, which is focused on combining
juvenile defense practice with policy
development.
The purpose of the Juvenile Justice Clinic
is to teach our student attorneys to provide the
highest quality representation for their clients
in the delinquency system, while working for
systemic change.
Learning in the trenches
And the program has proven successful in
providing participating students with invaluable
hands-on experience and a firm understanding
of the delinquency system.
“In my time at the Juvenile Justice Clinic
I was able to work on policy and directly represent
children,” says Rebecca Headen (’07).
“Now that I work primarily in policy, I realize
how important that experience was – in a legal
universe where the people who practice and
the people who strategize are often detached
and sometimes divided, learning and practicing
as I did at the clinic prepared me for fluency
in both worlds.”
Clinic students represent children charged
with criminal activity in Maine’s juvenile
courts.
Each semester five student-attorneys take on
the responsibility of trying to make their clients’
lives safer and more successful by addressing the
underlying causes of the alleged conduct. It is
difficult work, but our students always exceed
every expectation of the courts and the families.
The lessons learned and the problems observed
in the trenches of delinquency court form the
genesis of our policy work.
Tackling policy issues
A few examples of the policy issues the
clinic takes on each semester include disproportionate
minority contact with law enforcement
and the ongoing legal problems
encountered by homeless youth.

Once students identify a problem area,
the next step for them is to look for partners
in the community. For example, to help serve
Portland’s significant population of homeless
youth, students reached out to Preble
Street and Pine Tree Legal Assistance to create
the “Street Law” program, through which
clinic students provide legal advice every
other Wednesday on a drop-in basis at Preble
Street’s Teen Center.
Some issues can be addressed with a quick
consult; other teenagers with more complex
problems wind up as full-representation clients.
For our work with disproportionate minority
contact issues, students partnered with
the Muskie School of Public Service.
Now in the fifth year of the partnership,
and students have helped Muskie staff
design and publish a comprehensive assessment,
“Disproportionate Minority Contact
in Maine: DMC Assessment and Identification,”
University of Southern Maine Muskie
School of Public Service, 2009.
The assessment defines disproportionate
minority contact problems and potential solutions.
Clinic students continue to work toward
further assessment, as well as the implementation
of potential solutions to this difficult
issue.
And, once again, the experience has been
valuable for Maine Law students: “My work
to address and eradicate racial discrimination
within the juvenile justice system in Maine
gave me a deep appreciation of how positive
social change happens – it is incremental
and demands perseverance – but it is possible
through collaboration and hard work,” says
Robyn Merrill (’08). “My time at the clinic
inspired me to continue working toward systematic
change, instilling a belief that the system
can be improved to work better for all
people.”
A child’s best interest
The clinic added two more policy projects
this academic year. Mike Dixon (’11) noticed a
crisis of conscience in many attorneys defending
juveniles. Although good defense work relies
on defenders zealously representing their
clients’ expressed interests, the desire to advocate
for a child’s best interests is strong. In order
to help make sure that juveniles, especially
those in the most unfortunate circumstances,
have a “best interest” voice in court, Dixon
helped form a group of volunteer guardian ad
litems. He worked with the Child Protective/
Juvenile Justice section of the Maine State Bar
Association to identify volunteers, and he is
currently serving as a guardian ad litems on
two delinquency cases.
Clinical Professor Christopher Northrop.
Another significantly underserved group of
adolescents are those who, due to cognitive disabilities,
mental health issues and/or immaturity,
cannot understand the delinquency process or
assist in their own defense. With the explosion
of quality research about adolescent brain development
in the last decade, the issue of juvenile
competency has emerged across the country.
As in many states, Maine’s Juvenile Code
does not directly address this problem. The
Criminal Law Advisory Committee is in the
process of drafting legislation to close this gap.
Joe Zamboni (’11) has joined the working
group responsible for assisting the committee.
He is working with leaders from the defense bar,
prosecutors’ offices, Attorney General’s office,
State Forensic Service, and Maine Commission
on Indigent Legal Services. He hopes to see this
legislation signed into law by graduation.
Making it a career
Although many clinic alumni go into
private practice, quite a few have decided to
continue their work in the policy world and
public interest law. Clinic graduates over the
last four years have landed jobs at the National
Juvenile Defender Center, ACLU of North
Carolina, Rights Working Group (Washington
D.C.), Disability Rights Center of Maine,
Maine Equal Justice Project, KIDS Legal,
Maine Justice Advisory Group and the Maine
Legislature.
This fall I had one of the great thrills of
my professional life at the Juvenile Defender
Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. This
annual event is an invitation only summit
where grizzled veterans (like me) get to present
to the nation’s most dedicated and promising
young lawyers advocating for children. I was
delighted to see two of my former students in
attendance.
“The rewards I have reaped from my time
as a student attorney at the Juvenile Justice
Clinic are many and richly layered,” says Caroline
Wilshusen (’07), a former student who
was at the event, along with Rebecca Headen
“I experienced how critical a zealous advocate
is in the life of a child in that it empowers a
child, and enables the court to hear the child’s
story. I understand how critical these elements
are to the goals of the juvenile code in order to
craft a result that serves the child and society as
a whole. The Juvenile Justice Clinic provided
a foundation of information and experiential
learning that continues to inform my practice
with each child I serve.” ML
Christopher Northrop is Clinical Professor
at the University of Maine School of Law. He
was appointed initially in 2006, and founded
and directs the Juvenile Justice Clinic. Professor
Northrop is President of the New England
Juvenile Defender Center (housed at the Law
School) and a nationally recognized expert in
juvenile justice.
“In my time at the Juvenile Justice Clinic I was able to work on policy and directly represent children. Now
that I work primarily in policy, I realize how important that experience was – in a legal universe where the
people who practice and the people who strategize are often detached and sometimes divided, learning
and practicing as I did at the clinic prepared me for fluency in both worlds.” – Rebecca Headen (’07)
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
“The University of
Maine School of
Law has emerged
nationally as a
center of intellectual
excellence and
expertise, thanks
to robust research,
publication, teaching,
and service by our
professors.”
– Peter Pitegoff, Dean
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PROF. DavID
CLUCHEY published
a review of the book,
Climate Finance:
Regulatory and Funding
Strategies for Climate
Change and Global
Development (Richard
B. Stewart et al., eds,
NYU Press 2009)
entitled “Seeking a Unified Field of Climate
Finance,” in the Ocean and Coastal Law
Journal (2010).
PROF. CHRISTINE
gaLBRaITH’S article,
“Access Denied: Improper
Use of the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act
to Control Information
on Publicly Accessible
Internet Websites,”
was listed in October
on the Social Science
Research Network’s Top Ten download list
for Intellectual Property: eJournal. As of
October, the article had been downloaded
247 times. The article originally was
published in 63 Md. L. Rev. 320 (2004).
PROF. MaLICk
gHaCHEM’S book,
The Old Order and the
Haitian Revolution
will be published by
Cambridge University
Press in 2011. He
published “Of ‘Scalpels’
and ‘Sledgehammers’:
Religious Liberty and
the Policing of Muslim Charities in Britain
and America Since 9/11” in the UCLA
Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law. He
delivered the keynote speech, “Race, Reentry,
and Immigration” at a conference entitled
Corrections, Community, and Reentry,
co-sponsored by the Law School, the
NAACP Portland, the Maine Department
of Corrections, and the Crime and Justice
Institute at Community Resources for Justice
in Portland in October, 2010. His article,
“Prosecuting Torture: The Prudential Ethics
of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Haiti,” has
been accepted for publication in the Law and
History Review.
PROF. RITa HEIMES,
Director of the Center
for Law & Innovation,
spoke in November on
Intellectual Property
Rights at the Invention
to Venture Conference at
the University of Maine.
Prof. Heimes’ article,
“Ocean Management
& Planning in the United States: From
Competition to Cooperation,” based
on presentations she made in 2010 at
the University of Nantes in France, will
appear in the journal Annuaire de Droit
Maritime et Oceanique in 2011. Prof.
Heimes published “Ocean Planning and
the Gulf of Maine: Exploring Bi-National
Policy Options” in Vol. 15 of the Ocean
and Coastal Law Journal, co-authored
with Prof. Lucia Fanning of Dalhousie
University. Prof. Heimes chaired a panel
in November on intellectual property
clinics and pro bono legal services at the
Intellectual Property Empowerment Summit
hosted by the Intellectual Property and
Social Justice Institute of Howard Law
School. Prof. Heimes and the Center for
Law and Innovation hosted a sold-out
conference on data privacy and security
issues (Data Security and Management in
Global Commerce) in Portland in August.
Featured speakers included law school
alum and adjunct professor Trevor Hughes,
Magistrate Judge John Facciola, and
Woods Abbott, counsel to Raytheon Corp.
The event signaled the launch of the law
school’s collaboration with the International
Association of Privacy Professionals to offer
educational content and training in privacy
law to students, businesses, and the local
legal community.
PROF. LOIS R.
LUPICa has continued
her work as principal
investigator on a
national study of the
consumer bankruptcy
system sponsored by the
American Bankruptcy
Institute (ABI). She
published “The Costs of
BAPCPA (the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention
and Consumer Protection Act of 2005): The
Pilot Study” in the ABI Law Review, Volume
18 (2010). (See the story on Page 20 to learn
more.) She was the keynote speaker

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
at the ABI Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy
Conference in November on “The Costs
of BAPCPA-Empirical Evidence of How
the Bankruptcy System is Working.” In
January, she spoke on “The New Consumer
Bankruptcy System” as the keynote speaker
at the ABI Northeast Consumer Bankruptcy
Conference in Boston. She spoke on a panel
on the topic of “Seismic Shifting: Bankruptcy
in a Time of Change,” with the Hon. James
B. Haines, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, at a
conference of the Maine State Bar Association
in Augusta in September. She presented
“The Impact of BAPCPA on High Volume
Consumer Bankruptcy Practice” before the
American Consumer Bankruptcy College in
Las Vegas in September. She presented “Data
from the Costs of BAPCPA Study: The Best
and the Worst of BAPCA” at the National
Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual
Meeting in New Orleans in October.
PROF. JEFFREY
MaINE published the
Second Edition of his
book, The Fundamentals
of Federal Taxation,
Carolina Academic Press
2010. Prof. Maine’s
article, “The History
of Intellectual Property
Taxation: Promoting
Innovation and Other Intellectual Property
Goals” was accepted for publication in the
Southern Methodist University - Dedman
School of Law Review. His article, “Equity
and Efficiency in Intellectual Property
Taxation,” co-authored with Prof. Xuan-
Thao Nguyen, was published in the Brooklyn
Law Review in December 2010. Prof. Maine
published a supplement to his treatise
Intellectual Property Taxation: Transaction
and Litigation (BNA BOOKS) in late 2010.
His article “The Fundamentals of Wealth
Transfer Tax Planning: 2011 and Beyond,”
co-authored with Prof. John A. Miller, has
been accepted for publication in the Idaho
Law Review. His article “The Unequal Tax
Treatment of Intellectual Property” has been
accepted for publication in Tax Notes, a
leading magazine on tax policy, commentary,
and news. He presented his article, “Equity
and Efficiency in Intellectual Property
Taxation,” at the 10th Annual Intellectual
Property Scholars Conference, hosted by the
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology in
Berkeley, Calif., in August, and at the John
Marshall Law School in Chicago in October.
PROF. CHaRLES
NORCHI, Director of
the Marine Law Institute,
presented in Hong
Kong at the Second
Annual Conference on
the New Haven School
of Jurisprudence cosponsored
by the City
University of Hong
Kong School of Law and Yale Law School
on “International Agreements and the
New Haven School: Territorial Disputes
and Colonial Boundary Instruments,” in
November. He lectured on Afghanistan to
the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
in the program, “Leader Development and
Education for Sustainable Peace” held at the
Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterey,
Calif. in November. He spoke on “Customary
Law and the Formal Legal System” at the Rule
of Law in Afghanistan: Whose Law, Whose
Authority? Conference at Boston University in
September. He spoke on “Afghanistan: Decline
and Renewal?” at the World Affairs Council of
Maine in September. He presented a paper,
“World Order and Failed States: Strategy
and the Common Interest,” at a conference
at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport,
R.I. in July. He presented “Sovereign and
Maritime Claims in the East Asia Sea” at the
History and Asia: Policy Insights and Legal
Perspectives Conference in September at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies
in Washington D.C. He spoke in October
on “Appraising Dokdo: Collective Memory
and Boundary Claims” and chaired a panel,
“Values and Leadership,” at the Annual Policy
Sciences Institute at Yale Law School.
CLINICaL PROF.
CHRIS NORTHROP
presented “Holding the
Juvenile Justice System
Responsible to Youth of
Color” at the Juvenile
Defender Leadership
Summit in Washington,
D.C. in October. This
presentation included
discussion of the work that clinic students at
the law school have done over the past four
years on the project on Disproportionate
Minority Contact that he is working on
with the Muskie School of Public Policy. He
served on the faculty for the Mississippi Youth
Defender Conference and helped develop the
curriculum for that conference in September.
PROF. DavE OWEN’S new article,
“Critical Habitat and the Challenge of
Regulating Small Harms,” will be published
in the Florida Law
Review in fall, 2011. His
article, “Urbanization,
Water Quality, and the
Regulated Landscape,”
which is forthcoming in
Colorado Law Review,
was selected from a
competitive field for
the environmental law
panel for the Stanford/
Yale Junior Faculty Exchange, which took
place in New Haven in June, 2010. Prof.
Owen had an article accepted in the peerreviewed
inaugural issue of the Watershed
Science Bulletin. The article, “Collaboration,
Residual Designation Authority, and
Collective Permitting: A Case Study of Long
Creek,” was co-authored with Curtis Bohlen,
Zach Henderson, Christopher Kilton, and
Peter Glaser (’10). Prof. Owen presented
“The Curious Case of Critical Habitat”
and “Urbanization, Water Quality, and
the Regulated Landscape” at Vermont Law
School in October, 2010.
DEaN PETER
PITEgOFF, with Law
School Board of Visitors
Chair Dan Boxer,
published an article on
June 20, 2010 in the
Maine Sunday Telegram
on the front page of the
Insight section, entitled,
“Big Business: Losing
the fight to do right,” on the importance
of corporate ethics. (www.pressherald.
com/opinion/big-business_2010-06-20.
html.) Dean Pitegoff and Boxer are cochairs
of the law school’s Governance and
Ethics Symposium Series. Boxer is an
adjunct professor at the law school and
former chief administrative officer for
Fairchild Semiconductor. Dean Pitegoff,
with Meghan Higgins, the 2010 Linda
Smith Dyer Law Fellow at the Maine
Women’s Policy Center (Maine Law Class
of 2012), published an opinion piece on
June 24, 2010 in the Portland Press Herald,
entitled “Supreme Court justice’s job so
important, everyone should care.” (www.
pressherald.com/opinion/supreme-courtjustices-job-so-important-everyone-shouldcare_2010-06-24.html).
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PROF. MaRTIN
ROgOFF received an
Honorary Doctorate
from the Universitè
du Maine in Le Mans,
France in 2011.
His book, French
Constitutional Law:
Cases and Materials
(Carolina Academic
Press 2011) was published in December,
2010. He published an article “La théorie
du droit et l’histoire du droit aux États-
Unis: Une conciliation?” in 51 Archives
de philosophie du droit 420-441 (2010).
His article in Italian on conflict of laws,
“L’approccio delle Corti statunitensi alla
scelta della legge applicabile” was published
in the journal Diritto e Politiche dell’Unione
Europea. His article in Italian on the 2008
U.S. presidential election, “Riflessioni sul
sistema elettorale presidenziale statunitense
e sull’elezione presidenziale del 4 novembre
2008” appeared in a collection of essays
entitled Law presidenze Obama nel
sistema constutionale statunitense: novita e
riconferma published by the journal Ressegna
di diritto pubblico europeo. He published
a review of the book, Maritime Boundary
Disputes, Settlement Processes and the Law of
the Sea (Seoung-Yong Hong and Jon Van
Dyke, eds., Leiden & Boston, Martinus
Nijhoff Publishers. 2009) entitled “An
Overview of Existing Maritime Boundary
Disputes and Recommendations for their
Settlement” in the 2010 Ocean and Coastal
Law Journal.
PROF. SaRaH
SCHINDLER’S new
article, “The Future of
Abandoned Big Box
Stores: Legal Solutions
to the Legacies of Poor
Planning Decisions,”
has been accepted by the
Colorado Law Review.
She also finished a policy
paper, “Encouraging Private Investment
in Energy Efficiency,” for the Center for
Energy and Environmental Law at the
University of Connecticut School of Law, in
January, 2011.
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PROF. DEIRDRE M.
SMITH, Director of the
Cumberland Legal Aid
Clinic, will publish her
new article, “Diagnosing
Liability: The Legal
History of Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder,” in the
Temple Law Review in
fall, 2011. She recently
completed the 2010-2011 Supplement to the
book, Psychiatric & Psychological Evidence,
(3d), by Daniel W. Shuman (Thomson
Reuters).
PROF. THOMaS
WaRD’S book
Intellectual Property in
Commerce, 2010-2011
ed. was published by
West in 2011. The book
explores the intersection
of commercial law and
intellectual property law
by analyzing four main
areas. Prof. Ward examines intellectual property
as a commercial asset. Next, he evaluates
intellectual property as collateral, and how
intellectual property law can pose artificial
impediments to efficient debt financing for
technology-based enterprises. Then, he covers
the complexities of foreclosure and creditor
realization on intellectual property. Finally, he
considers bankruptcy issues and their affect on
intellectual property assets.
PROF. NaNCY
WaNDERER has been
instrumental in guiding
the revisions of the
Uniform Maine Citations,
2010 Edition, which are
now entirely online and
posted at the following
site on the Maine Law
Review website: mainelaw.
maine.edu/academics/maine-law-review/
uniform-maine-citation.html. Attorneys
Charles Leadbetter, Michael Seitzinger, and
Justice Donald Alexander also were involved
in this project.
PROF. JENNIFER
WRIggINS made a
presentation on her book,
The Measure of Injury:
Race, Gender, and Tort
Law (NYU Press 2010),
co-authored with Martha
Chamallas, in January to
the State-Federal Judicial
Council in Augusta. Prof.
Wriggins delivered Maine Law’s annual
Constitution Day lecture, “Constitutional
Law and Tort Law: Injury, Race, and Equal
Protection,” in September. The lecture has
been published in Vol. 63 of the Maine Law
Review. Prof. Wriggins gave a presentation
entitled “Including Race in the First-Year
Torts Curriculum” at the Association of
American Law Schools’ Mid-Year Workshop
on “Post-Racial Civil Rights Law, Politics
and Legal Education: New and Old Color
Lines in the Age of Obama,” in New York
City in June. Prof. Wriggins was part of an
Author-Meets-Reader Panel at the Annual
Meeting of the Law & Society Association in
Chicago in May that discussed The Measure
of Injury.
PROF. MEL ZaRR
continued his work on
the Maine Supreme
Judicial Court’s Advisory
Committee on the Rules
of Criminal Procedure.
In summer 2010, they
drafted and reviewed
rules and amendments
to accommodate the
increasing unification of criminal dockets
in District and Superior courts of Maine.
Prof. Zarr has served on this committee
for the past 35 years. He also served as a
member of the Maine Legislature’s Criminal
Law Advisory Commission, which reviews
pending bills, offers amendments to conform
to the basic structure and purposes of the
Criminal Code and engages in special
projects at the legislature’s request. They have
been engaging in a systematic review of the
Criminal History Record Information Act.

University of Maine School of Law
annual Philanthropy report 2009-2010

Alumni
Honors
Three esteemed Maine
Law alumni received welldeserved
honors from their
alma mater this year. The Law
School faculty selected David
Evans, (’78), partner at the
law firm Clifford Chance and
President of the University of
Maine School of Law Foundation,
as recipient of the L.
Kinvin Wroth Distinguished
Alumnus Award.
The Maine Law Alumni
Association presented
Rosalyne Bernstein (’86),
philanthropist and community
leader, with its Distinguished
Service Award.
The Women’s Law Association
of the University of
Maine School of Law presented
its 2010 Outstanding
Alumna Award to Alice Clifford
(’88), Assistant District Attorney
for Penobscot and Piscataquis
Counties in Maine and an
expert in domestic violence
prosecutions.
We want to hear
from you
Share your news about
new jobs, honors & awards
and milestones in upcoming
Maine Law Publications
To share your news,
please contact Mary Roy,
Assistant Director of Development
and Alumni Relations,
by e-mail at mroy@
usm.maine.edu; or by phone
at (207) 228-8411. You can
also log on to the Maine Law
Alumni Community at www.
mainelawalum.org and click
on “My Class Notes,” located
at the top of the home page.
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Officers
David J. Evans ’78’
President
Partner, Clifford Chance
Washington, DC
Jean M. Deighan ’76
Vice-President
President, Deighan Associates
Bangor, ME
Michael R. Currie ’80
Treasurer
Managing Director,
HM Payson & Co.
Portland, ME
Peter C. Mckenney ’77
Secretary
Retired,
Cumberland Center, ME
Directors
Eleanor M. Baker ’78
Principal, Baker Newman
& Noyes
Portland, ME
Rosalyne Bernstein ’86
Retired, Portland, ME
James M. Bowie ’77
Partner, Thompson & Bowie
Portland, ME
Martha Casey ‘82
Partner, O’Neill Athy & Casey
Washington DC
Officers
Cornelia Fuchs ’90
President
kelly Hoffman ’08
Vice President
Bruce Mcglauflin ’96
Treasurer
M. Thomas Trenholm ’08
Secretary
University of Maine School of Law Foundation
Board of Directors
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72
Partner, Norman Hanson
& DeTroy
Portland, ME
Ben Devine, ‘87
Great Island Development
Group
Boston, MA
Hon. Caroline D. glassman
Retired Associate Justice,
Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Portland, ME
John W. gulliver
Partner, Pierce Atwood
Portland, ME
Steven a. Hammond ’77
Partner, Hughes Hubbard
& Reed
New York, NY
David B. Hawkes ’69
Owner and Consultant,
Triplehawk, Inc.
Winter Harbor, ME
James a. Houle ’81
Partner, Bernstein Shur
Portland, ME
Robert a. Laskoff ’70
Senior Partner, Laskoff
& Associates
Lewiston, ME
University of Maine Law Alumni Association
Board of Directors
Directors
Sarah E. ashby ‘02
andrew J. Bernstein ‘80
Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ‘06
Sarah McCready Boston ‘03
J. Bradford Coffey ‘92
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72
Domna giatas ‘88
Paul J. greene ‘07
Beth Harris Hoffman ‘08
Steven g. Saunders ‘92
Wil Smith ‘06
Ilse Teeters-Trumpy ‘06
Christine C. vito ‘93
Pasquale F. Maiorino ’73
Of Counsel, Trafton
& Matzen
Auburn, ME
Craig H. Nelson ’69
Senior Partner, Doyle
& Nelson
Augusta, ME
kenneth S. Spirer
Retired, Portland, ME
Paula D. Silsby ’76
Retired, Portland, ME
Ira J. Waldman ’76
Partner, Cox, Castle
& Nicholson
Los Angeles, CA
Ex Officio
Peter Pitegoff
Dean, University of Maine
School of Law
Elena Brandt
Director of Development &
Alumni Relations
University of Maine
School of Law
Cornelia S. Fuchs ’90
President, University of Maine
Law Alumni Association
Ex Officio
Peter Pitegoff
Dean
Prof. Melvyn Zarr
Faculty Representative
Elena Brandt
Director of Development &
Alumni Relations
Mary Roy
Assistant Director of Development
& Alumni Relations
Tina Claypoole
Financial Manager
victoria Silver ‘12
President, SBA

University of Maine School of Law
and Maine Law Foundation Funds
American College of Trial Lawyers
(ACTL) Trial Advocacy Fund
Kenneth and Marjorie C. Baird
Memorial Scholarship
Dudley Baldwin Book Fund
Laurie L. Balmuth Scholarship
Fund
Israel and Sumner Bernstein
Memorial Scholarship Fund
Sumner T. Bernstein Professorship
of Law
Bernstein District Court
Fellowship Fund
William Bingham Scholarship
Fund
Bride Family Fund for Business,
Entrepreneurship and the Law
Class of 1971 Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Class of 1973/Glassman Faculty
Research Scholar Fund
Class of 1976/David D. Gregory
Library Acquisition Fund
Class of 1979/David D. Gregory
Scholarship Fund
Frank M. and Ruth Coffin Fund
for Law and Public Service
Philip M. Dusini Scholarship
Fund
Elliott Family Scholarship Fund
Richard H. Fay Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library
Endowment Fund
Justice Harry P. Glassman
Memorial Scholarship Fund
Edward S. Godfrey Fund
Morris and Sylvia Greenberg
Scholarship Fund
Charles A. Harvey Jr. Fellowship
Arlana K. and Pierce B. Hasler
Memorial Fund
Horace S. Libby Memorial Fund
Alumni Association Scholarship
Fund
Richard H. Armstrong Scholarship
Henry N. Berry III Law Student
Loan Fund
Cumberland Bar Association
Fellowship
George P. Davenport Loan Fund
Mary Smith Dyer Fellowship Fund
Endowed Funds
Non-Endowed Funds
Libra Professorship Fund
Gov. James B. Longley Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Macdonald Family Scholarship
Fund
Merle W. Loper Fund for
International Programs
Maine Law Foundation
Professorship Fund
Maine Law Foundation
Scholarship Fund
Maine State Bar Legal Education
& Trust Fund
Vincent L. McKusick Diversity
Fellowship
David Santee Miller Memorial
Scholarship Fund
New Hampshire Scholarship Fund
Osher Scholarship Fund
Pierce Atwood Scholarship Fund
Justice Harold J. Rubin
Scholarship Fund
Justice Abraham M. Rudman
Scholarship Fund
Shur Frinsko Award for Municipal
Law and Local Governance
Charles W. Smith Memorial Fund
Levi M. Stewart Fund
TD Banknorth Scholarship Fund
Thompson Fund
Lewis V. Vafiades Scholarship Fund
Verrill Dana Public Service
Fellowship
Justice Elmer H. Violette Fund for
International Programs
Violette/Lombard Scholarship
Fund
Daniel E. Wathen Writing Prize
Wernick Legal Writing Prize
Betsy and Peter Wiley Scholarship
Fund
Woodcock Family Scholarship Fund
Gignoux Special Collection Library
Fund
Edward T. Gignoux Memorial Fund
Edward S. Godfrey Loan Fund
Merle W. Loper Loan Fund
Norwood Loan Fund
Maine Public Interest Fellowship
Fund
Simmons Emergency Loan Fund
selected speakers (2010-2011)
Generous supporters of Maine Law helped make
the following presentations possible at Maine Law.
Julius “Jack” Getman. Sept. 13, 2010. Renowned labor law scholar
and activist and the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Professor of Law
at the University of Texas at Austin Law School.
Jennifer B. Wriggins. Sept. 17, 2010. The Sumner T. Bernstein
Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law
—Constitution Day Lecture.
Jeffrey A. Thaler. Sept. 22, 2010. Environmental Law Expert and
shareholder at Bernstein Shur in Portland.
Stephanie Showalter & Melissa Trosclair Daigle. Sept. 27, 2010.
Director of the National Sea Grant Law Center, and Legal Director at
the Louisiana Sea Grant Center, respectively.
USPTO Director David Kappos. Oct. 8, 2010. U.S. Undersecretary
of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office.
Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. Oct. 18, 2010. Resident Scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
Governor Angus King. Oct. 20, 2010. Former two-term Governor of
Maine and an attorney at Bernstein Shur Government Solutions.
Laura Underkuffler. Oct. 22, 2010. J. DuPratt White Professor of
Law at Cornell and the Distinguished Edward S. Godfrey Visiting
Professor at Maine Law in Fall 2010.
Stephen Oleskey. Oct. 26, 2010. Boston-based partner in the
international law firm WilmerHale, and 18th Annual Frank M. Coffin
Lecturer on Law and Public Service.
Professors Odile Delfor & Valerie Bore Eveno. Oct. 27, 2010.
Environmental and public law professors at Nantes University in France.
Dr. Harris Gleckman. Nov. 1, 2010. Consultant to the United Nations
and a project director for the Institute for Environmental Security.
Greg LeRoy. Nov. 16, 2010. Founder and executive director of Good
Jobs First, which promotes corporate and government accountability
in economic development.
David Ray. Feb. 9, 2011. Shareholder at Bernstein Shur and chair of
the firm’s Construction Group.
Megan Hannan. Feb. 16, 2011. Public Affairs Director for Maine for
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.
Dana Totman. March 15, 2011. President and CEO of Avesta Housing.
Panel Discussion: Egypt in Transition. March 28, 2011. Maine Law
hosted a World Affairs Council panel discussion on Egypt in Transition:
What does it mean for the Arab World and for US Policy? Panelists: Dr.
Selma Botman, President of the University of Southern Maine, Mahmud
Faksh, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of
Southern Maine, Charles Dunbar, retired US Ambassador, and Kathleen
Kinawy Sutherland, researcher on Egyptian society.
David Littell. April 1, 2011. Former Commissioner of the Maine
Department of Environmental Protection and current Chairman of the
Maine Public Utilities Commission.
Tim Sandefur. April 6, 2011. Adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute
and a Principle Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation in
Sacramento.
David Shaw. April 13, 2011. Managing partner at Black Point Group.
Eric Biber. May 9, 2011. Environmental law expert and professor at
the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law.
Cynthia Mabry. May 15, 2011. Professor at Howard University
School of Law, and an expert in family law.
Judge D. Brock Hornby. May 21, 2011. Federal judge in the United
States District Court for the District of Maine, delivered the keynote
address at this year’s University of Maine School of Law Graduation.
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2009-2010 Annual Fund
The sustained and growing support of the Annual Fund from our Alumni and Friends allows us to provide scholarship aid, summer
fellowships, clinical programs and vibrant student life at the Law School. In 2009-2010, more than $487,000 was raised by 790
donors for the Annual Fund.
Support for the Law School, 2009-2010
Total Giving (Capital Gifts, Annual Fund Gifts and Program Grants): $487,094
Annual Fund
Results for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2010::
Annual Fund Goal $365,000
Annual Fund Raised $487,094
Total Number of Donors 790
Average Gift $545
Total Giving
Results for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2010:
Donors % Giving %
Alumni 609 77 $150,373 31
Friends 128 16 $40,554 08
Foundations & Corps 12 02 $79,532 16
Law Firms & Other
Organizations
41 05 $216,635 45
Totals 790 $ 487,094
Law Firms and
Other Organizations
Alumni
Foundations
and Corporations
This report delineates gifts and pledges received between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Any gifts or pledges received
after June 30, 2010 will be included in the 2010-11 Philanthropy Report. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy
of this report. We regret any errors or omissions and request that you contact Maine Law’s Development and Alumni
Relations office at 207-780-4342 or at lawalumni@usm.maine.edu with any changes so that we can correct our records.
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Annual Fund Donors
Alumni
Foundations
and Corporations
Law Firms and
Other Organizations
Friends
Total Giving by Donor Categories
Friends

2009-2010 Donors
Chairman’s Club
$10,000 and above
French American Cultural
Exchange
Maine Bar Foundation
Maine Civil Legal Services Fund
Pierce Atwood LLP
TD Charitable Foundation
Ira J. Waldman ’76
Barrister’s Club
$4,000 – $9,999
Dollie E. Ash
Laurie L. Balmuth ’80
Berman & Simmons PA in
memory of Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Bernstein Shur
Campaign for Justice
Steven A. Hammond ’77
Hollings Center for International
Dialogue
Robert A. Laskoff ’70
Solicitor’s Club
$2,000 – $3,999
Aroostook County Bar Association
Boeing Matching Gift Program
James M. Bowie ’77 and Sarah
Downs Bowie ’77
Daniel Boxer
Covington & Burling LLP
Paul F. Driscoll ’81 and Hon. Beth
Dobson ’80
Drummond Woodsum &
MacMahon
David J. Evans ’78
Thomas W. Hennen ’73
Law Office of Joe Bornstein, Joe
Bornstein and Deborah Aronson
Bornstein ’81
Hon. John R. McKernan Jr. ’74
Amy N. Moore
Corrections to the 2008-
2009 annual Report:
• Beth Bernstein Schneider
and Michael Schneider
should have been listed in
the Dean’s Club, not in the
Third Decade Club.
• The Elliott Family
Scholarship Fund was
inadvertently omitted from
the list of Endowed Funds
of the University of Maine
School of Law and Maine
Law Foundation.
• The Macdonald Family
Scholarship Fund was
inadvertently omitted from
the list of Endowed Funds
of the University of Maine
School of Law and Maine
Law Foundation.
Prof. Christopher Northrop
Francis J. O’Toole ’70
Dean Peter Pitegoff and Ann
Casady
Unum Matching Gifts Program
Hon. John K. Veroneau ’89
Dean’s Club
$1,000 – $1,999
Eleanor M. Baker ’78
Ronald S. Battocchi ’74 and Mary
T. Bell ’74
Rosalyne Bernstein ’86
Stearns J. Bryant Jr. ’68
Parke Burmeister ’10
James W. Case ’74
Martha L. Casey ’82
Cloutier Conley & Duffett PA
Maddy G. Corson
Charles L. Cragin ’70
Jean M. Deighan ’76 and Glen L.
Porter ’78
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 and Mary
R. Roy
Robert S. Frank in memory of
Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Barbara E. Gauditz ’87
Hon. Caroline D. Glassman
Francis M. Jackson ’77
Deborah A. Keefe ’77 and John E.
Sedgewick ’77
Prof. Colleen A. Khoury and
David Karraker
Margaret Cushing Lavoie ’87
Support
790 donors
contributed
more than
$480,000 to
the University
of Maine
School of Law
in 2009-2010.
Thank You
On behalf of all
of our students
at Maine
Law who
benefit from
annual gifts
and grants,
we thank
you. Your
leadership,
commitment
and financial
support helped
us continue to
provide access
to educational
opportunities
for our current
and future
students.
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Mark G. Lavoie ’78 in memory of
Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Annmarie Levins ’83
Kevin G. Libby ’79
Maine State Bar Association
Michael K. Martin ’89
John A. McCauley ’87
Peter C. McKenney ’77
Microsoft Corporation
Carol L. Mitchell ’88
Craig H. Nelson ’69
Robert V. O’Brien Jr. ’79
Anne E. O’Donovan ’91 and
Dennis J. O’Donovan ’91
Gregory W. Powell ’80
Heidi M. Pushard ’10
Roger A. Putnam
Hon. Paul L. Rudman
Beth Bernstein Schneider and
Michael Schneider in memory
of Sumner T. Bernstein and in
honor of Rosalyne Bernstein
Deborah Shaw ’91
Kathryn E. Shorr ’10
Ryan K. Stafford ’94
Jay F. Theise ’70
Gary F. Thorne ’73
Mrs. Marian Vafiades
Vafiades Brountas &
Kominsky LLP
Kurt E. Vragel Jr. ’73
Peter M. Weatherbee ’68
Ms. Cerita Wilson in memory of
Stuart Wilson
Hon. John A. Woodcock Jr. ’76
Third Decade Club
$500 – $999
Michael C. Augustini ’95 and
Hope Hall Augustini ’94
Brett D. Baber ’85
Monica M. Bigley ’91 and Andrew
L. Black ’94
Daniel Billings ’03
Hon. George N. Bowden ’74
Michael Burian ’10
Anne M. Carney ’90
David A. Chase II ’88
James Christianson ’10
Janis Cohen ’80
Robert H. Conkling ’96
Neal C. Corson ’79
Michael R. Currie ’80
Edward David M.D. ’87
Edward F. Day Jr. ’73
Bernard M. Devine Jr. ’87
Arthur R. Dingley D.O. ’79
Hon. Wayne R. Douglas ’79
Diane Dusini ’87
Joseph A. Farrell ’89
Friedman Gaythwaite Wolf &
Leavitt in memory of Charles A.
Harvey Jr.
John W. Gulliver
Kristin A. Gustafson ’87
David B. Hawkes ’69
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John A. Hobson ’83
Geoffrey H. Hole ’72
J. Trevor Hughes ’95
Rendle A. Jones ’67
Charles J. Kean III ’76
Jeffrey Knuckles
Norman S. Kominsky ’94
Donald M. Kreis ’93
Lambert Coffin
Catherine A. Lee
Anne Lucey ’91
Robert F. Macdonald Sr. ’69
Prof. Jeffrey A. Maine
Patrick C. Maxcy ’99
Gerard S. McAuliffe ’71
Elek Miller ’10
Monaghan Leahy LLP
Thomas A. Mullen
Tina H. Nadeau ’10
Robert A. Nagy ’72
Norman Hanson & DeTroy LLC
Petruccelli Martin &
Haddow LLP
Jonathan S. Piper ’76
Preti Flaherty
Peter H. Priest ’80
Hon. John H. Pursel ’70
Robert B. Ravenelle ’87
Kathryn A. Reid ’92
Peter J. Richard Jr. ’10
Prof. Alison Rieser
Robinson Kriger & McCallum
Heather B. Sanborn ’07
Jacqueline Sartoris ’10
Susan M. Schultz ’89
Prof. Deirdre M. Smith ’94
Kenneth S. Spirer and Joan
Leitzer M.D.
Joanne B. Steneck ’87
James S. Stolley Jr. ’93
Louise K. Thomas ’77
Thompson & Bowie LLP
Thomson Reuters
Christine C. Vito Ph.D. ’93
Arlyn H. Weeks ’81
Dorothy M. Wentworth ’94
Prof. Melvyn Zarr
Gerard V. Zarrilli
Barry Zimmerman ’70
Challenge Club
$250 – $499
Leonard Agneta
Thomas G. Ainsworth ’74 and
Kathryn Monahan
Ainsworth ’76
John B. Andrews ’71
Anonymous
Louise Arkel ’94
Krista E. Atwater ’01
David B. Auclair ’84
James P. Aucoin ’91
Ritchie E. Berger ’81
Ellen S. Best ’81
Robert J. Bocko ’85
Deborah A. Buccina ’81
Paul S. Bulger ’85
M. Thomasine Burke ’90
Hon. Michael P. Cantara ’81
Everett B. Carson ’77
Edgar S. Catlin III ’81
Christian T. Chandler ’89
Philip M. Coffin III ’81 and Susan
E. Peck ’81
Hon. Roland A. Cole ’68
J. Michael Conley III ’70
Eugene C. Coughlin III ’70
Anne H. Cressey ’88
Ronald J. Cullenberg ’71
Geoffrey K. Cummings ’82
Richard L. Currier ’80
Donnelly S. Douglas ’78
R. Terrance Duddy ’80
Patricia McDonough Dunn ’76
Mary Lou Dyer ’80
Rebecca H. Farnum ’77
Gregory L. Foster ’73
Douglas P. Franklin ’71
Friends and Colleagues at AGH
Oncology in memory of Charles
A. Harvey Jr.
Steven R. Gerlach ’06
Germani Martemucci Riggle &
Hill
Nicholas M. Gess ’81
Laurie A. Gibson ’84
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gignoux Jr.
Phyllis G. Givertz ’74
Hon. Peter J. Goranites ’73
Hon. Ellen Gorman
Ronald J. Graff ’87
Michael S. Haenn ’79
Jonathan S. Handelman ’05
William H. Hanson ’82
William P. Hardy ’73
Erik J. Heels ’95
Stephen Hessert ’77
Joseph M. Hochadel ’74
Hon. D. Brock Hornby and
Helaine C. Hornby
Martha W. Howell ’74
J.B. Brown & Sons
Jackson & MacNichol
Dina A. Jellison ’92 and John J.
Wall III ’92
Michelle Bushey Jensen ’93
Bruce M. Jervis ’77
Kelly Remmel & Zimmerman
Frank S. Kipp ’74 in memory of
Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Edward W. Klein ’79
Thomas R. Kolb
Laskoff & Associates
Thomas G. Leahy ’74 and Kathryn
Longley-Leahy ’82
Thomas A. Loureiro ’97
Macy’s Inc. Matching Gifts
Program
Pasquale F. Maiorino ’73
John P. Maley ’68
Barbara J. Mantegani ’80
Nancy C. McBrady ’07
Marcia Metcalf ’92
Elaine M. Michaud ’93
Paul H. Mills ’77
Carolyn DeGrinney Mitchell ’96
and Daniel J. Mitchell ’96
Clifford J. Moore Jr. ’84
Robert A. Moore ’74
Joy Moore ’07
Stephen W. Moriarty ’78
Peter L. Murray in memory of
Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Timothy H. Norton ’88
Gary J. Norton ’74
Marc C. Owen ’73
Prof. Dennis M. Patterson
Richard M. Peirce ’71
Susan A. Pereira ’97
Prof. Gerald F. Petruccelli
Roy T. Pierce ’92
Hon. Paul T. Pierson ’72
Ruth E. Plagenhoef ’80
Anne Bowen Poulin ’73
Michael J. Quinn ’88
Patricia Reynolds Regan ’83

Richardson Whitman Large &
Badger
Chris Ruge ’01 in memory of
Stuart Wilson
Hon. Ronald D. Russell ’72
Hon. James S. Russell ’78
Michael V. Saxl ’98
Mary L. Schendel ’76
Ronald W. Schneider Jr. ’96
Lei Shi ’98
Hon. Paula D. Silsby ’76
Hon. Warren M. Silver
Skelton Taintor & Abbott
Chadbourn H. Smith ’70
Terry N. Snow ’73
Sonnenschein Nath &
Rosenthal LLP
Hon. Marilyn E. Stavros ’80
Graydon G. Stevens ’77
Joan Sturmthal ’86
F. Mark Terison ’78
James E. Tierney ’74
Norman G. Trask ’88
Vincent P. Veroneau ’06
Bing Wang ’94 in honor of
Christine Wang
Hon. Daniel E. Wathen ’65
Prof. Jennifer Wriggins
Yiping Yang ’92 in memory of
Merle Loper
Century Club
$100 – $249
Sherry L. Abbott ’04
Steven W. Abbott ’91
Albertson’s Inc.
Jill P. Allen ’89
Hon. & Mrs. Thomas H. Allen
Michael G. Anderson ’10
John A. Anderson ’93
Charles S. Andrews ’69
Miles F. Archer ’00 and Jennifer A.
Archer ’00
Elizabeth A. Armstrong ’86
Jordan Arthur ’10
John E. Baker ’79
Courtney Barnett ’10
Marya Baron ’10
John R. Bass II ’78
John Bean ’03
Vickie Caron Bell ’91
Timothy P. Benoit ’85
Henri A. Benoit II ’85
Margaret A. Bensinger ’84
Roger F. Blake ’59
Sarah McCready Boston ’03
Rachel L. Bouchard ’96
Andre D. Bouffard ’86
Timothy H. Boulette ’99
Joel F. Bowie ’72
Dylan Robert Boyd ’10
Elizabeth L. Boynton ’74
Hon. Carl O. Bradford ’62
Elena Brandt
Richard F. Breen Jr. ’67
Christina Valar Breen ’91
Hon. G. Arthur Brennan
John W. Bride ’64
Robert S. Briggs ’73
Hon. William S. Brodrick ’72
David A. Bronson ’74
Nathan Brown ’10
Mary Kay Browne ’91
Nathaniel Bryans ’08
Virgilia W. Bryant ’00
Brenda M. Buchanan ’90
Prof. E. James Burke
Natalie L. Burns ’87
Kelly Busby ’05
Elizabeth R. Butler ’79
Rita N. Calamari ’80
Hon. Susan W. Calkins ’70
James M. Callahan ’85
Matthew E. Campbell ’91
Chelsey Carrier ’10
Ian M. Catlett ’00
Paula Caughey ’90
Alexandra E. Caulfield ’91
Paul W. Chaiken ’74
Joceline D. Champagne ’99
Peter L. Chandler ’76
Michael Chiaparas ’79
Alisa Christopher ’10
Eve Hlavaty Cimmet ’81
Monica A. Ciolfi ’86
Jeffery J. Clark ’80
Roger A. Clement Jr. ’91 and Amy
Tchao ’93
Prof. David P. Cluchey
Joanne F. Cole ’81
Joseph W. Corrigan ’00
James L. Costello ’91
Robert L. Couturier ’70
Theodore S. Coxe Jr. ’92
Kevin T. Crilly ’88
Curtis Thaxter
Hon. Howard H. Dana Jr.
Martha L. Day ’96
Armanda Beal Day ’96
Dorcas H. Deans ’82
John P. DeGrinney ’95
Prof. Orlando E. Delogu
Mary A. Denison ’01
David A. DiMuzio ’73
Dennis M. Doiron ’90
Douglas Denham Buccina
& Ernst
Jeremy Dowell ’10
Thomas R. Downing ’78 and
Margaret R. Downing ’78
Robert G. Driscoll ’76
Stephen F. Dubord ’73
Hon. James P. Dunleavy ’68
Jane Campana Earley ’74
Robert L. Eddy Jr. ’69
Hon. E. Paul Eggert ’78
Kris J. Eimicke ’06
Richard W. Elliott ’65
Frederick C. Emery Jr.
Elliott L. Epstein ’78
Ronald A. Epstein ’77 and Eileen
M.L. Epstein ’78
Genevieve Watson Faherty ’04
Fairchild Semiconductor
Corporation
Deborah A. Fauver ’90
Edward F. Feibel ’82
Hon. Joseph H. Field ’76
Geoffrey M. FitzGerald ’85
Martin J. Foley ’78
Edmund R. Folsom ’84 and
Lauren C. Folsom ’84
Jeanne A. Foy ’90 and William B.
Scarpelli ’91
Alfred C. Frawley III ’76
Cornelia Fuchs ’90
M. Elizabeth Gallie ’87
Ariel Gamble ’10
Nell-Garwood M. Garvey ’06
John P. Gause ’95
Daniel Gayer ’10 and Sarah
Gayer ’08
Kristina Gefvert ’10
Shaun M. Gehan ’02
Sidney H. Geller ’63
Domna Giatas ’88
Thomas R. Gibbon ’74 in memory
of Dean Emeritus
Edward S. Godfrey
Donna M. Gingerella ’84
Robert Girvan III ’10
Sharon Gwinn Gobat ’98
Donna J. Godish in memory of
Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Jonathan L. Goldberg ’97
Russell J. Goldsmith ’90
Seth Goodall ’05 and LeAnn
Greenleaf ’05
Vicki J. Gordan ’80
Paul R. Gosselin ’76
Martha A. Grant ’81
Katherine Greason ’79
Stephanie Green ’10
Greenhut Galleries of Maine Inc.
in memory of Charles
A. Harvey Jr.
Henry W. Griffin ’91 and
Elizabeth Eddy Griffin ‘92
Gordon F. Grimes
Darya Haag ’10
Harold C. Hamilton II ’76 and
Hon. Margaret J. Kravchuk ’76
Robert and Dagmar Hamilton
John L. Hammond ’75
Evan M. Hansen ’84
Andrew Hastings ’10
Reid Hayton-Hull ’10
Charles C. Hedrick ’98
Prof. Rita Heimes
Andrew Helman ’10
Peter C. Herbst ’73
David L. Herzer Jr. ’92 and Dana
Gillespie Herzer ’00
Melissa A. Hewey ’87
Michael H. Hill ’88
Heidi Hoefler ’97
Paul D. Hoffman ’93
Mary L. Holm ’84
Donald S. Hornblower ’91
James A. Houle ’81
Paula House ’88
Prof. H. Cabanne Howard
William H. Howison ’75
Sherry F. Huber
Richard A. Hull III ’74
Susan E. Hunter ’76
Jonathan B. Huntington ’87 and
Anne LaCombe Huntington ’86
Hon. Joseph M. Jabar Sr. ’71
John James ’84
Neil D. Jamieson Jr. ’88
Margaret T. Jeffery ’92
Rupert J. Jennings III ’80
Norine C. Jewell ’87
Robert E. P. Jones ’91
Robert A. Jutras ’88
Steven H. Kang ’06
Janet K. Kantz ’91
Marikate E. Kelley ’89
Hon. E. Mary Kelly
John N. Kelly
Hon. MaryGay Kennedy ’80
Katherine A. Kerkam ’06
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Phillip M. Kilmister ’63
Karen G. Kingsley ’79
Kyle Kirby ’10
Prof. Christopher Knott
Katherine R. Knox ’04 and Jess B.
Knox ’04
James S. Kriger ’63
Kristina Kurlanski ’10
William O. LaCasse ’83
David J. Lakari ’84
Leonard W. Langer ’78
Wendell G. Large
John G. Lemoine ’88
Patricia A. Lerwick M.D. ’90
Alan J. Levenson ’59
David J. Levesque ’97
Hon. Jon D. Levy
Joseph Lewis ’10
Jonathan Liberman ’10
Susan H. Livingston ’88
Bruce R. Livingston ’72
Carrie M. Logan ’07
Richard A. Lord ’65
Nicholas Lund ’10
Prof. Lois Lupica
Malcolm L. Lyons ’70
Andrew B. MacLean ’91
Ignatius MacLellan ’85
Carter H. Manny III
John P. March Jr. ’92
Thomas S. Marjerison ’93
Carol A. Martel ’92
Simone D. Masse ’84
Cdr. Kent W. Mathews ’71
Vicki M. Mathews ’93
Timothy P. McCormack ’01
Darcie N. McElwee ’98
Bruce A. McGlauflin ’96
Hon. Vincent L. McKusick and
Nancy G. McKusick
Elizabeth McLaughlin ’93
Patricia B. McNamara ’92
William H. Meanix Jr. ’79
Samuel H. Merrill ’75
William Milasauskis ’10
Connie Fern Miller ’75
Charles E. Miller ’79
S. Peter Mills III ’73 and Hon.
Nancy Mills ’82
Barry K. Mills
Mills & Mills LLP
Ann H. Mohnkern ’79
Peter Monahan ’92
David C. Morse ’10
N. Joel Moser ’10
Lawrence J. Mullen ’81
Erin Murphy ’10
Hon. Ann M. Murray ’82
Murray Plumb & Murray
Tracy Nale ’10
Jeffrey A. Nathanson ’87
Mary and Kenneth Nelson
Leonard and Merle Nelson
C.J. Marie Newman ’10
Hon. John C. Nivison II ’85
Northeast Utilities
Murrough H. O’Brien ’75
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Orla C. O’Callaghan ’96
Joseph M. O’Connor ’90
Charles W. Olcott ’03
Mary Saunders Oneglia ’03
Heidi S. Osborn ’83
Harold C. Pachios
Pearce & Dow LLC
John D. Pelletier ’85
Mark Peltier ’10
Robert C. Perkins ’77
Rachael K. Pierce ’05
Russell B. Pierce Jr. ’91
David C. Pierson ’93
John J. Polak Jr. ’81
James D. Poliquin ’81 and Beth
Anne Poliquin ’82
Thomas J. Poulin ’88
Thomas E. Powers ’84
Hon. Keith A. Powers ’73
Roger P. Prince ’85
Nathaniel S. Putnam ’95 and
Virginia Kozak Putnam ’91
Jane Surran Pyne ’85
Shawn Quinn ’10
Leslie Raber ’10
Joshua Randlett ’10
Alistair Y. Raymond ’06
Margaret B. Reid ’10
Samuel R. Reid III ’82
Roberts & Shirley
Hon. John V. Romei ’75
James Ross ’10
Roderick R. Rovzar ’73
Samuel K. Rudman
Ellsworth T. Rundlett III ’73
Geoffrey A. Rushlau ’79
Thomas A. Russell ’79
Donna M. Ryan ’88
Frederick S. Samp ’75 and
Cushing Pagon Samp ’77
Andrew R. Sarapas ’98
Joanne S. Sataloff ’77
Steven G. Saunders ’92
George C. Schelling ’79
Hon. Louis Scolnik
Severson Hand & Nelson PA
Charles M. Sexton ’76 in memory
of Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Jeffrey Shafto ’10
Melinda P. Shain ’98
Justin G. Sharaf ’65
Barbara G. Shaw ’94
Heidi Shealy ’92
Bruce N. Shibles ’87
Richard A. Shinay ’80
David H. Shove ’82
Adam Shub ’10
Hon. Herbert T. Silsby II
David S. Silsby ’58
David Sinclair ’10
Hon. George Z. Singal
Paula N. Singer ’78
John W. Sitarz ’72
Wilbur Smith ’06
Elizabeth H. Smith ’10
Frances Dee Smith
Elting H. Smith Jr. ’87
Steven R. Smith ’81
Brenda C. Smith-Weiss ’84
Joshua E. Spooner ’00
Kristin St. Peter ’00
Heather Staples ’10
Timothy Steigelman ’10
Daniel J. Stevens ’88
William T. Stewart ’74
Maryellen Sullivan ’94
Nathan S. Szanton ’90
Edmond Tang ’90
Gina Tangney
Annee H. Tara ’73
Paul R. Tardif ’93
Carol Taylor
Jeffrey A. Thaler and Karen
Massey
Alan Thorndike ’76
Sarah Allison Thornton ’76 in
memory of Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Kevin J. Tierney ’76
Michael B. Trainor ’79
Michael Thomas Trenholm ’08
Hon. Ralph L. Tucker Jr. ’74
Darby C. Urey ’99
Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85
Michael F. Vaillancourt ’00
Richard E. Valentino ’60
Verrill Dana LLP
Kathryn L. Vezina ’90
Nicole Vinal
Matthew J. Walker ’01
Heather Seasonwein Walker ’01
Professor Nancy A. Wanderer ’90
Joseph A. Wannemacher ’77
Warren Currier & Buchanan
LLC PA
Mrs. Helen Wasserman
Brian W. Weber ’07
Delwyn E. Webster ’10
Peter B. Webster
John H. Weigold III ’96
J. Julie Welch
David West ’10
John M. Whalen ’71
John G. Wheatley ’07
Sharon M. Wheeler ’98
Chad Wilcox ’10
Lynn Wilcox
Elyse Wilkinson ’10
Mark J. Winter ’98
Gary C. Wood ’75
Amanda Wood ’01
John A. Woodcock III ’06
Elizabeth C. Woodcock ’88
Hon. Patricia G. Worth ’79
Wright & Mills PA
Jean D. Wulff ’93
Christopher A. Wyskiel ’80
John H. Zane ’93
Nancy C. Ziegler ’80 and Hon.
Kermit V. Lipez
Advocate’s Club
Up to $100
Beth N. Ahearn ’88
Barbara Reid Alexander ’76
Michelle Allott ’89
John D. Alsop Jr. ’78
Anonymous
Prof. Angela Crossman Arey ’05
Sarah E. Ashby ’02
Gene Auty ’88
Timothy J. Bailey ’99
Madge Baker ’75
Bank of America Matching Gifts
Program
Capt. James W. Bass ’06
Hannah L. Bass ’06
Krisna M. Basu ’92 and Joshua D.
Krell ’92
Gretchen M. Bath ’81
Jonathan S.R. Beal
Heidi A. Bean ’89
Lisa Fitzgibbon Bendetson ’94 and
Eric Bendetson ’94
David R. Beneman ’85
Louise A. Berlin ’95
Donald A. Bertsch
Frank H. Bishop Jr. ’07
Christopher A. Blier ’07
Michael R. Bosse ’96
Daniel W. Boutin ’80
Thomas C. Bradley ’92
Sylvia F. Brewster ’88
Christopher M. Bride ’01
Robert C. Brooks ’91 and Michele
Dorsey Brooks ’93
Andrew Brown ’76
Dr. Jill L. Bubier ’78 and George
W. Stone III ’78
Sonia Buck ’05
Paul W. Cadigan ’90 and Marcia
G. Cadigan
Jason S. Campbell ’05
Julie Carp ’08
Catherine L. Claypoole
Hon. Robert W. Clifford
Alice E. Clifford ’88 and Terence
M. Harrigan ’88
James F. Cloutier ’79
Mark A. Cloutier ’81
Susan B. Cole ’79
Gerard P. Conley Jr. ’79
William H. Coogan Ph.D. ’88 and
Kim Matthews ’75
Clifford B. Corson ’86
Carmen L. Coulombe
Dan Coyne ’05 and Stephanie
Williams ’05
Philip D. Cross ’86
Denis T. Culley ’03
Alicia F. Curtis ’06
Xing Dai 94 and Shanshan
Zhou ’93
Thaddeus V. Day ’97
Thomas G. Diebold ’92
Morse W. Doane ’97
Amanda J. Doherty ’08
Carmen M. Dorsey ’89
Martica Sawin Douglas ’77
James A. Dowd II ’97
Andre Duchette ’05

Neale A. Duffett ’80
William R. Dunn ’79
Thomas A. Dyhrberg ’83
David J. Ekelund Jr. ’00
Robert L. Ellis Jr. ’86
Lauren H. Epstein ’04
John C. Everett Jr. ’76
Peter C. Felmly ’03
Debra Ferguson ’85
Julia A. Finn ’90 and A. Robert
Ruesch ’90
Mark J. Fischler ’97
Mary M. L. H. Flint ’80
Martha E. Freeman ’80
N. Paul Gauvreau ’75
Leonard Giambalvo
Kenneth F. Ginder ’91 and Claire
Adami Ginder ’91
Matthew S. Goldfarb in honor of
Hon. J Brock Hornby
Mary K. Gonya Brennan ’71
Mary Jane Good ’99
Michael H. Griffin ’73
Katherine Griffin ’08
Margaret S. Groban
Jon Haddow ’90
David J. Halperin
Floyd L. Harding
Lorna J. Harmuth ’91
Mary Bradley Hawkes ’92 and
Blaine R. Hawkes ’92
Matthew C. Hayden ’01
Frank G. Helman
Eric R. Herlan ’87
Michael S. Hirshberg ’69
David E. Hirtle ’07
Kenneth T. Hoffman ’78
Kelly Hoffman ’08 and Elizabeth
Harris Hoffman ’08
Jennifer Holmes-Griffin ’99
Naomi H. Honeth ’80
Philip P. Houle ’70
David S. Humphries Sr. ’67
Stephen P. Hyde ’77
David Kallin ’09
James N. Katsiaficas ’84 and
Donna M. Katsiaficas ’84
Katherine Kayatta ’09
Mary N. Kellett ’92
Thomas R. Kelly ’92
Arthur J. Lamothe ’87
Elizabeth LaPierre ’09
Pamela Knowles Lawrason
Bruce A. Libby ’64
Bradley M. Lown ’85
William N. Lund ’80
Lisa C. Lunn ’88
Faye E. Luppi ’85
M. Katherine Lynch ’02
Kyle T. MacDonald ’09
Jonathan T. Mann ’94
Nancy Savage Marcus ’91
Daniel W. Marra ’02
Patricia M. Mathers ’98
Justina A. McGettigan ’91
Allison McLaughlin ’06
Lisa M. McMullin ’75 and
Kimball R. McMullin ’74
Matthew T. Mehalic ’07
Patrick J. Mellor ’98 and Rebekah
J. Smith ’98
Philip G. Mohlar ’90
Moncure & Barnicle
Richard G. Moon
Sarah S. Murdough ’94
Katherine M. Murray ’00
Hon. Robert E. Murray Jr. ’88
Steven D. Najarian ’90
Edward Jeffrey Newcombe ’93
Charles L. Nickerson
Mary Frances O’Brien ’03
Melissa Reynolds O’Dea ’96
Laura M. O’Hanlon ’92
Michael J. O’Toole ’85
James H. Ouimette ’77
Professor David Owen
Keith R. Patterson ’92
Brice C. Paul ’98
Roger O. Pederson ’98
Edmund M. Pitts
Harvey Prager ’94
Katherine M. Ralston ’89 and
Matthew Ralston
Frederic C. Rand ’01 and
Katharine I. Rand ’03
Caroline V. Rider ’74
Joel B. Russ ’74
Felicity A. Ryan ’07
Karla Black Salomao ’02
Mary M. Sauer ’94
Prof. Sarah Schindler
Science and Art Inc.
Henry I. Shanoski ’98
Kirk G. Siegel ’97
David P. Silk ’85
Joshua Silver ’05
Gregory H. Smith ’73
Kenneth E. Snitger ’71
Hon. Valerie Stanfill ’85
Jon C. Stanley ’95
Jennifer S. Sternick ’90
Peter H. Stewart ’80
Telecom Pioneers of America in
memory of Charles A. Harvey Jr.
Jason Robert Tiballi ’96
Karin R. Tilberg ’84
Marshall J. Tinkle
Laura E. Tobin ’92
Jill Kaplan Tupper ’94
Thomas G. Van Houten
Anne W. Van Lonkhuyzen ’73
Patrick Venne ’10
Lise R. Wagner ’93
Alexander J. Wall ’06
Molly Watson ’09
Laura K. Welles ’04
Lisa Whittier ’05
K. Isaac Wilhelm ’04
Judith A. Fletcher Woodbury ’80
Karen L. Wright ’00
Julia Wyman ’07
F. Richard York ’53
Thad B. Zmistowski ’89
Gifts in Memory
of Hon. Frank M. Coffin
2007-08 Law Clerks of Hon.
Kermit V. Lipez
Jonathan and Nancy Aldrich
Hon. Donald G. Alexander
and Barbara Reid
Alexander ’76
Douglas Baird
Nicole M. Bouvier
(made in the name of
her aunt Mignonne B.
Bouvier, Judge Coffin’s
administrative assistant)
Muriel W. Britton
Hon. William S. Brownell
’71
David C. Burkey Zembsch
Clerks of Hon. Frank M.
Coffin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F.
Coughlin
Catherine Farrell
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley L.
Freeman Jr.
Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John C. Gundersdorf
Virginia D. Hayden
Merton Henry
Professor Colleen A. Khoury
and David Karraker
Ralph I. Lancaster Jr.
Jeffrey S. Lazarus
Joseph M. Levesque
Loveitts Field Home Owners
Association
Maine State Bar Association
Maine Trial Judges
Association
Hon. and Mrs. Vincent L.
McKusick
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E.
Nicoll
Norman Hanson &
DeTroy LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
M. O’Neil
Penobscot County Bar
Association
Arlene C. Pomeroy
Hon. Justin L. Quackenbush
Edward Raftery
Barbara V. Randall
Eileen M. Reynolds
Barbara F. Riegelhaupt
Esther M. Schleifer
Rev. Ann Robb Smith
Hon. Deanell R. Tacha
Gina Tangney
Mr. Cameron Tucker
Professor L. Kinvin Wroth
Paul M. Zimmerman
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Class of 2010
Graduation Gift
The University of Maine School
of Law graduating class of 2010
demonstrated impressive leadership.
Fifty-five individuals (67 percent) pledged a
total of $18,175 to be paid to the law school
over the next three years, which set a record
for the highest participation rate ever by a
Maine Law graduating class.
Most of these pledges are to support our
vision for a new law building, one of Maine
Law’s priorities in the years ahead. All of
these pledges bolster the law school’s Annual
Fund effort and reflect the strength of its
extended community.
We gratefully acknowledge the following
individuals of the graduating class of 2010
for their support and generosity.
Michael G. Anderson
Jordan Arthur
Courtney Barnett
Marya Baron
Dylan Robert Boyd
Nathan Brown
Michael Burian
Parke Burmeister
Chelsey Carrier
James Christianson
Alisa Christopher
Betty J. Bailey
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W.
Blatter
Daniel Boxer
Mrs. Frances S. Chaiken
Hon. Thomas E.
Delahanty II ’70
Jeremy Dowell
Ariel Gamble
Daniel Gayer
Kristina Gefvert
Stephanie Green
Darya Haag
Andrew Hastings
Reid Hayton-Hull
Andrew Helman
Kyle Kirby
Kristina Kurlanski
Gifts in Memory of Dorothy Rubin
Dr. & Mrs. Edward M.
Friedman
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart G.
Gilbert
Mrs. Daphne H.
Glassman
Jane C. Krone
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Joseph Lewis
Jonathan Liberman
Nicholas Lund
William Milasauskis
Elek Miller
David C. Morse
N. Joel Moser
Erin Murphy
Tina H. Nadeau
Tracy Nale
CJ Marie Newman
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
A. Levy
Leonard and Merle
Nelson
Arlene C. Pomeroy
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E.
Prawer
Mark Peltier
Heidi M. Pushard
Shawn Quinn
Leslie Raber
Joshua Randlett
Margaret B. Reid
James Ross
Jacqueline Sartoris
Jeffrey Shafto
Kathryn E. Shorr
Adam Shub
Roger A. Putnam
Mr. and Mrs. James
Riecks
Ruben-Fortier &
LaCourse Agency
Mr. and Mrs. Curt
Shoyer
David Sinclair
Elizabeth H. Smith
Heather Staples
Timothy Steigelman
Patrick Venne
Delwyn E. Webster
David West
Chad Wilcox
Elyse Wilkinson
Hon. George Z. Singal
Pauline J. Thibodeau
Constance P. Webster
Whole Foods Market
Northeast Region

The3
Faces
of
Philanthropy
Annual Fund
Annual Giving sustains priority
programs at the Law School.
The annual fund provides crucial
support for student scholarships,
summer fellowships, esteemed
lecturers, and other vibrant
programs at the Law School.
Capital Gifts
Gifts to build the Law School
permanent endowments and
improve the School’s physical
plant.
The Law School Foundation’s
ongoing major gifts program
is building assets to strengthen
student success, curricular and
program innovation, faculty
excellence, technology and
facilities.
Legacy Gifts
Bequests and other planned gifts to
the University of Maine School of
Law Foundation build perpetual
endowments to sustain the Law
School’s excellence.
Legacy Gifts are a valuable
complement to the Annual Fund
and Capital Gifts, and have the
potential for transformative
impact.
To make a gift to the Annual Fund, go to www.mainelawalum.org, call 207-780-4342, or send
your gift to Maine Law Annual Fund, 246 Deering Avenue, Portland, ME 04102.
For more information on Capital or Legacy Gifts, please call Elena Brandt, Director of
Development and Alumni Relations, at 207-780-4521. She also can be reached at
ebrandt@usm.maine.edu
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