Marina Hsieh has directed the APD Department since its creation in 2005. She co-plans Orientation, teaches skills workshops, provides individual counseling, and designs the SCU Early Bar Exam Preparation program. As a Senior Fellow, Hsieh also teaches Civil Procedure I and II and Constitutional Law I and II.

Dean Hsieh received her A.B. from Harvard University, and her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley). She clerked for Hon. Louis Pollak (E.D. PA) and Hon. John Paul Stevens (S.C.O.T.U.S.). Before joining academia, she was a civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. Dean Hsieh has taught at many law schools, including the University of Maryland, U.C. Berkeley, and New York University. She is Vice President of the ACLU National Board and the State Bar of California Council on Access & Fairness.

Visiting Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law 2004-05; Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law, 1999-2005. Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-99. Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. 1990-1993. Law Clerk, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court of the United States, O.T. 1989.

Civil and Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights/Race Discrimination, Asian Americans and the Law; Legal Methods.

"Language-Qualifying" Juries to Exclude Bilingual Speakers, 66 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1181 (2001); Perspectives on Affirmative Action, 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 195 (1998).

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