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Virginia E. Hench |
Virginia E. Hench
BA, magna cum laude, American University, 1970; MA, University of Iowa, 1974; JD University of Richmond, 1987; LLM, Temple University, 1993.
Professor Hench joined the University of Hawai`i in 1993 following two years as the Abraham L. Friedman Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Temple University Law School. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Professor Hench taught in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Italy.
While attending the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, she was elected to the McNeill Law Society, served on the Law Review, and worked part-time for the Sheriff's Department of the City of Richmond. After graduating from law school, Professor Hench clerked at a large Norfolk, Virginia law firm then served as law clerk to United States District Chief Judge J. Calvitt Clarke, Jr.
Following her judicial clerkship, she engaged in general practice with three other attorneys in Indiana until 1991. As a private attorney, she also conducted seminars on civil rights law for Indiana police chiefs and officers.
Professor Hench's scholarship includes articles published in Temple Law Review, Thurgood Marshall Law Review, Case Western Law Review and the University of Hawai'i Law Review.
Teaching Areas:
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Gender and Law, Hawai'i Innocence Project
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
