David J. McCarthy Jr. is Dean EmeritusDavid J. McCarthy.
Georgetown Law, 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011. of the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA from 1975 to 1983. McCarthy received a bachelor's degree from

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, and a J.D. J.D., LL.M., and an honorary LL.D. from Georgetown, where he was managing editor of the

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. McCarthy became a professor of law at Georgetown in 1965 specializing in state and local government law, and has written a number of books on the topic. Before coming to Georgetown McCarthy was an attorney at the

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and was the founding Director of the D.C. Bail Project.

Selected books

* And William D. Valente, ''Local Government Law: Cases and Materials'' (4th ed., 1992, & supp. 1995). * ''Local Government Law in a Nutshell'' (4th ed., 1995).

References

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