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Temple Law and FWLA present Professor Barry McCarthy's Lecture on Gender, Family and Role of Law (MCLE Credit for US-Qualified Attorneys)

Temple University School of Law, Tokyo Campus is pleased to offer one MCLE credit to U.S. qualified attorneys who attend the Foreign Women Lawyers' Association (FWLA) meeting, "Gender, Family and Role of Law" with guest speaker Professor Finbarr (Barry) McCarthy, Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Date:: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time:: 7:00 p.m. - Light dinner
8:00 p.m. - Presentation commences
Venue:: Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto - Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building 17th Floor conference room (Map)
FWLA Meeting Fees:: Members ¥3,000
Full-Time Student Members ¥1,500
Non-Members and Guests ¥5,000
Student Non-Members and Guests ¥2,000 (please present student ID)
RSVP:: To facilitate catering arrangements and building security procedures, RSVPs are appreciated. Please RSVP to fwla.events@gmail.com, if possible, by Friday, October 3, 2008.

Finbarr McCarthy, Ph.D., J.D. is an associate professor of law at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is currently teaching at the university's Tokyo campus. His courses include property, corporations and employment law.

A native of Ireland, Professor McCarthy graduated from Trinity College Dublin, earned a post-graduate diploma at the University of Amsterdam and received both his law degree and his doctorate in literature from Tulane University in the United States.