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Volume 78, Number 2 (2026)

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Editorial Board Vol. 78 No. 2 (2026)
Adam Fortier-Brown Editor-in-Chief

Foreword

Foreword
Adam Fortier-Brown

Essay

Rurality and Redistricting: California’s Proposition 50, Rural Identity, and Democratic Legitimacy
Lisa R. Pruitt

Articles

Legal Deserts Over Time
Cory L. Dodds

The Other Right to Counsel: The Civil Guarantee in State Constitutions
Dmitry Bam

One Year’s Seeding: Looking Back on the Last Seven Years of Maine’s Progress Toward Rural Justice
Christopher Northrop and Seth Main

Resiliency Planning and the Reorganization of Legal Authority in Rural Maine
Nicholas F. Jacobs and Skylar Thielbar

Case Note

Betschart v. Oregon: A Seven-Day Standard for Maine
Henry Gates

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