Maine Law Faculty Update

Dear Students, Staff, and Faculty --

As you may have heard, Maine Law Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer has been appointed Professor of Law beginning next academic year at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. It is with mixed feelings that I share this news with you. This move presents an exciting opportunity for Professor Tuerkheimer and her family, while we sincerely will miss her vibrant presence here at Maine Law in the coming years. We wish the best for Professor Tuerkheimer, who certainly will remain an active and valued member of the extended Maine Law School community.

Joining Maine Law next fall as a new full-time faculty member is Sarah Schindler. Currently a visiting professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, Professor Schindler previously practiced land use and environmental law at the San Francisco firm of Morrison and Foerster, clerked for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Will Garwood in Austin, Texas, and worked as a television actor in Los Angeles. We look forward to welcoming Professor Schindler to Maine Law, where her research and teaching will include property law, land use regulation, administrative law, and environmental and marine law.

Additionally, Professor Lateef Mtima will join Maine Law next summer and fall as a distinguished Libra Visiting Professor. A faculty member at the Howard University School of Law for over a decade, Professor Mtima is Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice in Washington, D.C. After graduating in 1985 from Harvard Law School, he was in private law practice with Coudert Brothers in New York and San Francisco and with Klehr Harrison in Philadelphia. In addition to intellectual property, he teaches and writes in the areas of bankruptcy, debtors and creditors' rights, commercial law, contracts, torts, and social justice. Professor Mtima's visit helps launch Maine Law's anticipated faculty and student exchange program with Howard Law School.

-- Peter Pitegoff, Dean