Husson University this morning said it has hired three well-known Maine law professors to its law school faculty in a renewed effort to launch a law school in Bangor.
At a press conference at the school’s Bangor campus, Husson President Bill Beardsley said the school has hired Michael Mullane, a longtime law professor at the University of Maine School of Law; Peter Murray, a founding partner at Murray, Plumb & Murray in Portland; and Judy Potter, who has a private practice in Cape Elizabeth, as founding professors of the Husson Law School. Murray is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, while Mullane teaches at the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop and Potter teaches at the Harvard Law School Winter Trial Practice Program, according to a press release from Husson. Mullane will serve as dean starting in August. Husson would like to accept its first Juris Doctor students in the fall of 2010.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court in June denied Husson’s request to allow graduates of its proposed law school to take the state bar exam. Beardsley said the school has reviewed the court’s recommendations carefully and that the three newest members of the faculty would help address those recommendations. Husson plans to submit an upgraded plan to the court this summer and again request authorization for graduates to sit for the Maine bar exam.
This article was revised at 6:01 p.m., March 18, 2009
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