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McFarlane's scholarly work focuses on the intersection of race and class in the areas of property, land use and economic development. She has written innovative and thought-provoking articles on a range of topics including empowerment zones as a reflection of the racial geography of economic development, democratic theoretical justifications for community participation in economic development, globalization and business incentives, the implications of racialized space for business improvement districts, the insights of critical race theory for eminent domain and regulatory takings. Her current work is about how property law's provision of a space for instability makes recurrent foreclosure crises possible. She has been a visiting professor at University of Maryland School of Law, Seattle University School of Law and Northeastern School of Law. She has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe and a J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was a member of the Stanford Law Review. She joined the University of Baltimore School of Law faculty after clerking for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and serving as an associate at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering. At UB, she teaches courses in Property, Land Use, Local Government and Local Economic Development.