Bryan MacMahon
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Bryan MacMahon is an unassigned Judge of the Irish Circuit Court and the author of textbooks on Irish law. He is the son of short story writer Bryan MacMahon, and a native of Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland.
[edit] Legal career
Judge MacMahon received his BCL and LLB degrees from University College of Dublin; subsequently, having been awarded the Harvard Fellowship, he undertook further postgraduate study at Harvard Law School. He returned to Ireland in 1967 to take up a post as a Statutory Lecturer in the Law Faculty, University College Cork (UCC). During his time at UCC Judge MacMahon went on to become Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law.
In 1987 Judge MacMahon joined the law firm of Houlihan and McMahon, Ennis, Co. Clare, as a Senior Partner. While continuing to practise law he simultaneously held a part-time Chair of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In 1999 he was appointed a Judge of the Circuit Court.
He was appointed Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Law at University College Cork in 2004.
Judge MacMahon is also Chair of the Irish Universities Quality Board. He resides with his wife in Kells, Co. Meath.
[edit] Legal textbooks
Judge MacMahon has co-authored many legal textbooks including:
- Law of Torts, co-authored with William Binchy (Butterworths: 1980, 1989, 3rd Edition 2000);
- Casebook on Irish Law of Torts, also co-authored with William Binchy, (Butterworths 1983, 2nd Edition 1991);
- European Community Law in Ireland, co-authored with Finbarr Murphy (Butterworths: 1989).
