Professor Frankie McCarthy

Professor of Private Law (School of Law)

telephone: 0141 330 6927
email: Frankie.McCarthy@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 405, Stair Building, 5-10 The Square, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

Frankie McCarthy was appointed Professor of Private Law in 2019, but has been a member of the School as a PhD researcher and then a lecturer since 2007. She is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh (LLB, DipLP) and Glasgow (PhD), and is also a qualified solicitor.

Professor McCarthy has been appointed to the Scottish Law Commission on a full-time basis until October 2024. Please note that she is not working on the University campus and will not be undertaking teaching or administrative duties during this time.

Research interests

Professor McCarthy’s research interests lie in property law and family law, and their intersections with human rights. She is particularly interested in:

The development of property as a human right in Europe. Why do we protect property ownership as a civil right, and to what extent does this right also imply responsibilities? How can property rights theories, particularly the US progressive property scholarship, help us to reconceptualise property ownership?
Property as human right in relation to community interests in land in Scotland and the Scottish land reform agenda.
Ownership rights and responsibilities in relation to community living, especially urban tenement living.
Family property, particularly the financial rights of non-marital cohabiting couples during and on the breakdown of their relationship.

Publications

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Number of items: 40.

2022

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2022) Bankruptcy. In: Anderson, Ross G. (ed.) Scots Commercial Law. 2nd Edition. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474494182

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2022) Judicial security: diligence. In: Anderson, Ross G. (ed.) Scots Commercial Law. 2nd Edition. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474494182

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2022) Kenneth G C Reid et al (eds), Comparative Succession Law: Mandatory Family Protection. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(1), pp. 142-143. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2022.0752)[Book Review]

2020

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2020) Property rights and human rights in Scottish land reform. In: Combe, Malcolm, Glass, Jayne and Tindley, Annie (eds.) Land Reform in Scotland: History, Law and Policy. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 213-235. ISBN 9781474446846

2019

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2019) Rafique v Amin 1997 SLT 1385. In: Cowan, Sharon, Kennedy, Chloë and Munro, Vanessa E. (eds.) Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In. Hart Publishing, pp. 223-242. ISBN 9781509923267

2018

Deazley, Ronan and McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2018) Perpetual copyright and constitutional property. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2018(4), pp. 253-278.

Weatherall, David, McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 and Bright, Susan (2018) Property law as a barrier to energy upgrades in multi-owned properties: insights from a study of England and Scotland. Energy Efficiency, 11(7), pp. 1641-1655. (doi: 10.1007/s12053-017-9540-5)

Cassidy, Claire and McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2018) Collective worship in Scotland. In: Cumper, Peter and Mawhinney, Alison (eds.) Collective Worship and Religious Observance in UK Schools: Challenges and Opportunities. Series: Religion, education and values (13). Peter Lang. ISBN 9781787076556

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2018) Dynamic self-determinism, the right to belief and the role of collective worship. In: Cumper, Peter and Mawhinney, Alison (eds.) Collective Worship and Religious Observance in Schools. Series: Religion, education and values (13). Peter Lang. ISBN 9781787076556

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819, Bright, Susan and Fawcett, Tina (2018) Building governance and energy efficiency: Mapping the interdisciplinary challenge. In: Foulds, Chris and Robison, Rosie (eds.) Advancing Energy Policy. Springer, pp. 83-96. ISBN 9783319990965 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2_6)

2017

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2017) Protection of property and the European Convention on Human Rights. Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, 6, pp. 299-328.

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2017) Children’s rights in action: reforming religious observance in Scottish schools. Edinburgh Law Review, 21(2), pp. 257-261. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0417)

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 and McCorkindale, Chris (2017) Named persons in the Supreme Court: the Christian Institute and Others v The Lord Advocate. Edinburgh Law Review, 21(2), pp. 240-247. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0415)

2016

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2016) Opinion: Frankie McCarthy. Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 2016(Jan), pp. 13-15.

2015

Griffiths, A.M.O., Fotheringham, J.M. and McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2015) Family Law. Series: Greens concise Scots law. W. Green: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780414033559

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2015) Human rights. In: Rennie, Robert (ed.) Leases (SULI). W. Green: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780414018617

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819, Chalmers, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5423-8917 and Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (Eds.) (2015) Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie. Open Book Publishers: Cambridge. ISBN 9781783741472

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2015) Delict. In: Black, Gillian (ed.) Business Law in Scotland. W. Green: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780414036734

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2015) Human rights, property and the recovery of medical costs for Asbestos Diseases (Wales) Bill in the Supreme Court. Edinburgh Law Review, 19(3), pp. 373-378. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2015.0297)

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2015) The rights of the child in Scotland. In: Cvejic-Jancic, O. (ed.) The Rights of the Child in a Changing World: 25 Years after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Series: Ius Comparatum - global studies in comparative law (13). Springer, pp. 235-250. ISBN 9783319231884 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-23189-1_14)

2014

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2014) Defining cohabitation. Scots Law Times, 31, pp. 143-145.

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2014) Insolvency: bankruptcy. In: MacNeil, Iain G. (ed.) Scots Commercial Law. Avizandum: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781904968566

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2014) Judicial security: diligence. In: MacNeil, Iain G. (ed.) Scots Commercial Law. Avizandum: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781904968566

2013

Griffiths, A., Fotheringham, J. and McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2013) Family Law. Series: Greens Concise Scots Law. W. Green: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780414018464

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2013) Property as a human right: another casualty of the 'war on terror'? In: Hopkins, N. (ed.) Modern Studies in Property Law. Hart Pub Ltd: Oxford, UK, pp. 243-262. ISBN 9781849463218

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2013) Human rights and the Law of Leases. Edinburgh Law Review, 17(2), pp. 184-209. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2013.0154)

Fotheringham, J. and McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2013) Child support law in 2013: where are we going now? Scots Law Times, 2013(29), pp. 203-206.

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2013) Succession Law. Series: Law essentials. Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK. ISBN 9781845861285

2011

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Playing the percentages: New Zealand, Scotland and a global solution to the consequences of non-marital relationships? New Zealand Universities Law Review, 24(4), pp. 499-522.

McCarthy, F ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Property. In: Miller, A (ed.) Greens Scottish Human Rights Service. W. Green: Edinburgh, C701-C722.

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Cohabitation: lessons from north of the border. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 23(3), pp. 277-301.

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Delict. In: Black, G. (ed.) Business Law in Scotland. W. Green: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 328-363. ISBN 9780414018273

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Hilary Patrick and Nicola Smith 'Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(2), p. 327. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0045)[Book Review]

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Prayers in the playground: religion and education in the United Kingdom and beyond. In: Mair, J. and Orucu, E. (eds.) The Place of Religion in Family Law: A Comparative Search. Series: European family law (30). Intersentia: Cambridge, OR, USA, pp. 235-262. ISBN 9781780680156

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2011) Progress towards principles on the breakdown of cohabitation: Selkirk v Chisholm. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(2), pp. 270-274. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0028)

2010

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2010) Actionable rights and wrongs: human rights challenges in Axa General Insurance Ltd. Edinburgh Law Review, 14(2), pp. 284-290. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2010.0007)

2009

McCarthy, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2009) Rights in succession for cohabitants: Savage v Purches. Edinburgh Law Review, 13(2), pp. 325-329. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980909001504)

2008

McCarthy, F.M. (2008) Positive prescription in the human rights era. Scots Law Times, 3, pp. 15-18.

McCarthy, F ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819 (2008) Delict. In: Black, G (ed.) Business Law in Scotland. W. Green, pp. 324-359. ISBN 978-0-414-01703-0

2007

McCarthy, F.M. (2007) Deprivation without compensation: The exceptional circumstances of Jahn v Germany. European Human Rights Law Review, 3, pp. 295-303.

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