Peter L. Murray

Fall 2012 & Winter 2013 Terms

Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Comparative Civil Procedure, United States and Europe
• Efficiency and Fairness in Civil Justice, Especially the Role of Jury Trial
• Evidence and the Regulation of Proof of Facts, International Legal Education

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Comparative Law
• Evidence
• Law and Technology/Computers/Cyberlaw
• Legal Profession
• Trial Process/Advocacy

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Computers in Legal Education
• Evidence
• Legal Education/Practice
• Legal Ethics - General
• Technology and the Law (Cyberlaw, Internet)
• Trial Advocacy
• Trials/Litigation/Disputes

Appointments

• Edward R. Johnston Lecturer on Law, 1980
• Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law, 1992
• Visiting Professor of Law from Practice, 1993-95
• Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Law from Practice, 1995-2010
• Fulbright Senior Visiting Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany, 1998

Practice Information

Murray is of counsel at the firm of Murray, Plumb and Murray in Maine. His research interests include trial lawyer ethics and techniques; visual and demonstrative aids in evidence; and computers and law practice.

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Murray will teach a section of Evidence in the Fall Term 2012. He will also teach in the Trial Advocacy Workshop in the Winter Term 2013.

Representative Publications

• Murray, Peter L. & Rolf Stuerner. German Civil Justice (Carolina Academic Press 2004).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (Comparative treatise on German civil justice system and German civil procedure)
  
• Murray, Peter L. & J Sheldon. "Rethinking the Rules of Evidentiary Admissibility in Non-Jury Trials," 86 Judicature 1 (2003).
  
• Murray, Peter L. "ADR und die Amerikanische Ziviljustiz" in Aktuelle Entwicklungen des Europaeischen und Internationalen Zivilverfahrensrechts (Gieseking, 2003).
  
• Murray, Peter L. "A Morning at the Amtsgericht" in Law and Justice in a Multi-State World: A Tribute to Arthur A. von Mehren 779 (Transnational, 2002).
  
• Vagts, Detlev F. & Peter L. Murray. "Litigating the Nazi Labor Claims; The Path Not Taken;," 43 Harvard International Law Journal 503 (2002).
  
• Murray, Peter L., Eric Green & Charles R. Nesson. Problems, Cases and Materials on Evidence (Aspen Law and Business 3rd ed. 2001).
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• Murray, Peter L. Maine Evidence, 2001 Edition (Lexis_Nexis 2001 Edition ed. 2000).
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• Murray, Peter L. "Maine's Overburdened Law Court: Has the Time Come for Maine Appeals Court?" 52 Maine Law Review 44 (2000).
  
• Murray, Peter L. "Civil Justice reform in America; The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 and Its Consequences," 3 Zeitschrift fuer Zivilprozessrecht - International 319 (1999).
  
• Murray, Peter L. Basic Trial Advocacy (Little Brown & Co. 1 ed. 1995).
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