ProfessorJoe McGrath

Joe is an Irish Research Council Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, an Ireland-Canada Foundation Scholar, and a Professor of Law at the Sutherland School of Law. He was the Vice Principal for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion of the College of Social Sciences and Law from 2021-2024. 

Joe completed his doctoral thesis on corporate and financial regulation at University College Cork in 2011. He also graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Cork in 2007 and subsequently completed a post-graduate teaching qualification in higher education at NUI Galway.

Prior to joining the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin in 2014, he lectured at the National University of Ireland, Galway for three years. He has also held visiting fellowships at Harvard Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University.

His first book, 'Corporate and White Collar Crime in Ireland: A New Architecture of Regulatory Enforcement', was published by Manchester University Press. His second book was an edited and co-authored collection entitled 'White Collar Crime in Ireland: Law and Policy', published by Clarus Press. His third book, co-authored, "New Accountability in Financial Services: Changing Individual Behaviour and Culture", was published by Palgrave. 

He has also published in the leading peer reviewed journals in Ireland, Europe, Australia, and the USA. These include: Crime, Law and Social Change (twice); the Dublin University Law Journal; the European Journal of Criminology; the Irish Jurist (four times); the Griffith Law Review (Australia); the Irish Supreme Court Review; the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation; the Journal of Corporate Law Studies (twice); Justice Quarterly; the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology; Punishment and Society; Regulation & Governance; the Seattle University Law Review; and the University of Chicago Law Review (Online), among others.

Joe currently teaches banking law, corporate governance, white-collar crime, company law, and comparative corporate governance and financial regulation, across a variety of programmes at University College Dublin. He also coordinates the Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White-Collar and Regulatory Crime at the Honorable Society of King's Inns and coordinates modules on decision making and ethics at the Institute of Banking in Ireland.

Joe has served as an external examiner for the University of Limerick, Middlesex University London, and the Institutes of Technology at Athlone and Carlow. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law in 2019 and the Inaugural Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.