title: Peter L. Murray
text: # Peter L. Murray
  
  Peter L. Murray is an American legal scholar working as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor and Edward R. Johnston Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
  
  ## Education
  
  Murray earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1963 and a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School.
  
  ## Career
  
  From 1967 to 1968, Murray served as law clerk for Judge Edward Thaxter Gignoux. He worked as secretary to the Maine Judicial Council from 1969 to 1978 and has been a consultant to the Maine Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence since 1973. Murray also co-founded Murray, Plumb & Murray in Portland, Maine.
  
  Murray is an authority in the fields of evidence, comparative law, trial advocacy, comparative civil procedure, and admiralty law. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Board of Trial Advocacy.
  
  Murray is a member of the editorial board of Russian Law Journal.
  
  