Frankie McCarthy


Frankie McCarthy

Frankie McCarthy is Professor of Private Law at the University of Glasgow and a Scottish Law Commissioner.

She joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 2007. Her teaching and research interests are in property law and family law, and she has published widely in relation to both.

She was awarded her PhD for a thesis exploring the limits of Article 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.

She is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh (LLB, DPLP) and Glasgow (PhD) and was admitted as a Solicitor by the Law Society of Scotland in 2004.

She was appointed to the Scottish Law Commission in October 2019 and currently leads the Commission’s project on heritable securities.


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