Finbarr McCarthy

Finbarr McCarthy

  • Japan Campus

    Associate Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law

    Programs
    • Beasley School of Law

J.D.
Tulane University School of Law

Ph.D.
Tulane University

Post-graduate Diploma
University of Amsterdam

B.A. Mod.
Trinity College Dublin

Professor McCarthy joined the Temple Law faculty in August 1991. He is a native of Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin.

Before coming to the United States, Professor McCarthy worked as an inspector of taxes for Ireland’s internal revenue service. After graduating from Tulane University, first with a Ph. D. in American Literature and then with a J.D., Professor McCarthy served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He later clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was for several years the Director of the Law Program at Temple University Japan.

Research & Teaching Areas

  • Property
  • Trusts and Estates
  • Corporations
  • Professional Responsibility

Areas of Expertise

  • Property
  • Trusts and Estates
  • Professional Responsibility and Legal Profession
  • Corporations

Selected Publications

  • New World, Old Order: Interpreting the Jamestown Contract (1606-1610), Part 2, 28 ANGLO-AM. L. REV. 324 (1999).
  • New World, Old Order: Interpreting the Jamestown Contract (1606-1610), Part 1, 28 ANGLO-AM. L. REV. 133 (1999).
  • Participatory Government and Communal Property: Two Radical Concepts in the Virginia Charter of 1606, 29 U. RICH. L. REV. 327 (1995).
  • Participatory Government and Communal Property: Two Radical Concepts in the Virginia Charter of 1606, XXVIII-XXX IRISH JURIST 270 (1993-95).
  • The Influence of "Legal Habit" on English-Indian Relations in Jamestown, 1606-1612, 5 CONTINUITY & CHANGE 39 (1990).

Law Journal Articles

  • New World, Old Order: Interpreting the Jamestown Contract (1606-1610), Part 2, 28 ANGLO-AM. L. REV. 324 (1999).
  • New World, Old Order: Interpreting the Jamestown Contract (1606-1610), Part 1, 28 ANGLO-AM. L. REV. 133 (1999).
  • Participatory Government and Communal Property: Two Radical Concepts in the Virginia Charter of 1606, 29 U. RICH. L. REV. 327 (1995).
  • Participatory Government and Communal Property: Two Radical Concepts in the Virginia Charter of 1606, XXVIII-XXX IRISH JURIST 270 (1993-95).

Articles in Other Periodicals

  • The Influence of "Legal Habit" on English-Indian Relations in Jamestown, 1606-1612, 5 CONTINUITY & CHANGE 39 (1990).