Administration and Resident Faculty

Finbarr McCarthy
Director and Associate Professor of Law
Temple University Beasley School of Law

J.D., 1989, Tulane Law School
Ph.D., 1988, Tulane University
Post-Graduate Diploma 1975, University of Amsterdam
B.A., 1974, Trinity College, Dublin

Professor McCarthy joined the Temple law faculty in August 1991. He is a native of Ireland and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Amsterdam. Before coming to the United States he worked as an inspector of taxes for Ireland's internal revenue service. In 1988, he was awarded a Ph.D. in English from Tulane University and a year later he received a J.D. from Tulane Law School. After law school, Professor McCarthy served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

He then clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor McCarthy taught Employment Discrimination in the fall semester and teaches Property and Trusts & Estates this spring.

He published The Influence of Legal Habit on English-Indian Relations in Jamestown, 1606-1612, Continuity and Change 5 (i) 1190, 39 (1990).

Andrew Pardieck
Assistant Professor of Law
General Counsel, Temple University, Japan Campus

S.J.D., 2000, University of Hokkaido School of Law
J.D., 1996, Indiana University School of Law
A.B., 1990, Harvard College

Andrew Pardieck is a resident law professor and General Counsel of Temple University, Japan Campus. Professor Pardieck graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and the Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington. While in law school, he served as articles editor on the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and following law school enrolled in the University of Hokkaido School of Law. He completed his doctorate degree in law at Hokkaido, where he wrote his dissertation in Japanese on disclosure requirements in Japanese and U.S. securities markets. He has published in both Japanese and English on a variety of topics including securities and commodities law, consumer finance, alternative dispute resolution, and the legal profession. He has lectured widely in Japan, at the Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto Bar Associations, at national conferences, and universities. He has taught as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington. Prior to joining Temple University Japan, Professor Pardieck had a complex civil litigation practice in Indiana. He is a member of the Indiana bar and admitted to practice in the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.