Audrey McFarlane
Professor of Law
A.B., cum laude, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1986
J.D., Stanford University, 1990
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-6678
Room Number: LC 302
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Gloria Joy, (410) 837-4631, (on campus x4631), LC 400
Courses Taught
2010
Audrey McFarlane has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe (1986) and a J.D. from Stanford Law School (1990) where she was a member of the Stanford Law Review. She joined the University of Baltimore Law School faculty after clerking for Hon A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, serving as an associate at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering (working on corporate and securities matters as well as pro bono work on children's issues and community development) and teaching as a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland Law School, where she initiated that school's first community development clinic. At Baltimore, she teaches courses in Local Government Law, Property, Land Use, and a seminar in Local Economic Development. Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of race and class in local government law specifically in the areas of land use and economic development. Professor McFarlane has written innovative and thought-provoking articles on empowerment zones as a reflection of the racial geography of economic development, a critique of democratic theoretical justifications for community participation in economic development, the impact of globalization on business incentives, and the implications of racialized space for business improvement districts. Her current work is on eminent domain, regulatory takings and gentrification.
Selected Publications
Articles and Essays
Rebuilding the Public-Private City: Regulatory Taking's Anti-Subordination Insights for Eminent Domain and Redevelopment, 42 Indiana L. Rev. 97 (2009)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1367249
Putting the "Public" Back Into Public-Private Partnerships for Economic Development, 30 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 39 (2007)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1369668
Who Fits the Profile?: Thoughts on Race, Class, Clusters and Redevelopment,23 Ga. St. L. Rev. 877 (2006)
Redevelopment and the Four Dimensions of Class in Land Use,22 J. L. and Politics (U. Va.) 33 (Winter 2006)
The New Inner-City: Class Transformation, Concentrated Affluence and The Obligations of the Police Power, 8 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1 (Jan. 2006)
Preserving Community In The City: Special Improvement Districts And The Privatization Of Urban Racialized Space, Stanford Agora (Fall 2003)
Local Economic Development Incentives in an Era of Globalization: The Exploitation of Decentralization and Mobility (pdf), 35 Urban Lawyer 305 (Spring 2003)).
The Ebb and Flow of Community Participation in Economic Development, University of Baltimore Alumni Magazine, Fall 2001 (edited and revised excerpt of Brooklyn Law Review article).
When Inclusion Leads to Exclusion: The Uncharted Terrain of Community Participation in Economic Development, 66 Brooklyn L. Rev 863 (2001).
Race, Space and Place: The Internal Critique of the Empowerment Zones Program, 5 Emp. Zone Q. 15 (Summer/Fall 2000) (Edited excerpt of 1999 San Diego article)
Race, Space and Place: The Geography of Economic Development, 36 San Diego L. Rev. 295 (1999)
Empowerment Zones: Urban Revitalization Through Collaborative Enterprise, 5 A.B.A. J. Aff. H. & Comm. Dev. L. 35 (1995).