Hether Clash Macfarlane
Instructor, Legal Process
Director, Legal Process
A.B., Connecticut College
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
J.D., Union University, Albany Law School
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Tel: 916.739.7215
Professor Macfarlane assumed her current position at McGeorge after spending five years as an Instructor in the Legal Process Program. Before coming to Pacific McGeorge in 1995, she taught for two years in the Legal Research and Writing program at Albany Law School and was director of that program for three additional years. Professor Macfarlane was an associate with the firm of Hunton & Williams in its Washington, D.C. office for three years between leaving Albany and arriving at Pacific McGeorge.
Courses: Legal Process | LL.M. Legal Process
Curriculum Vitae:
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Director of Legal Process, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, 2000 - present
Direct first year Legal Process course. Responsible for creating syllabus for entire course. Responsible for training and supervising three full-time and five part-time instructors. Serve on faculty committees, including Orientation (Chair) and Curriculum.
Instructor, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, 1995 - 2000
Taught and created materials for required first year Legal Process course. Course involves basic instruction in structures of the American legal system, concepts of precedent and stare decisis, principles of written legal analysis in both objective and persuasive formats, and research sources and skills.
Associate, Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC, 1991-1994
Researched and drafted briefs and memoranda for cases in federal courts; drafted comments for rulemakings under the Clean Air Act by the Environmental Protection Agency; supervised technical consultants.
Director, Legal Research and Writing, Albany Law School, Albany, NY 1988-1991
Devised and taught required first year Legal Research and Writing course and supervised five Instructors. Course covered research sources and skills, principles of objective and persuasive writing, appellate writing, and oral argument. Taught Labor Law in the Public Sector, Fall, 1990. Co-created and taught in academic support program.
Instructor, Legal Research and Writing, Albany Law School, Albany, NY, 1986-1988
Taught three sections of Legal Research and Writing course. Created writing problems for 86 students.
EDUCATION
Albany Law School of Union University, Albany, NY
Juris Doctor, 1986
Bar Admissions: California, 1997; District of Columbia, 1993; New York, 1987.
Class Rank: 9/195. Honors: J.D. awarded Cum Laude; Justinian Society
Law Review: Note and Comment Editor, 1985-1986; Member 1984-1985
Publication: Dropped Stitches: Federal Regulation of Industrial Homework, 50 ALB. L. REV. 107 (1985).
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Candidate for the Ph.D., 1973
M.A. 1971
Field: Modern European Diplomatic History
Connecticut College, New London, CT
A.B. in History, 1970
Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in the Major Field
SEMINAR EXPERIENCE
Taught one day seminar on persuasive writing to lawyers in U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, General Litigation Section, March, 1999.
