Frankie is the lead Commissioner on the heritable securities project.
Background
Professor Frankie McCarthy was appointed a full-time Commissioner in October 2019. A three-year extension commenced on 1 October 2024.
She is a Professor of Private Law at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught since 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.
