Professor Joe McGrath

Joe is a Professor of Law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is an Irish Research Council Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and an Ireland-Canada Foundation Scholar. Prior to joining Monash, he was a Professor of Law at the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin (UCD). Joe has held visiting fellowships at Harvard Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University. 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. Joe completed his doctoral thesis on corporate and financial regulation at University College Cork in Ireland 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. 

Joe is an expert in white-collar/financial crime, financial regulation, and corporate governance. 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. 

Joe’s research on law is cross-disciplinary, informed by regulatory theory, criminology, and behavioural psychology. He has published in the leading peer-reviewed journals in these fields in Ireland, Europe, Australia, and the USA. These include: Crime, Law and Social Change; the European Journal of Criminology; the Irish Jurist; the Griffith Law Review; the Irish Supreme Court Review; the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation; the Journal of Corporate Law Studies; 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. 

This research has also had a substantial impact on policy. It has been cited by national and international policy bodies, including the Law Reform Commission in Ireland and the American Law Institute, in the USA. It has also informed discussions with regulators and central banks, including via invited lectures to the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Minnesota.