David P. Currie
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus

The Law School lost a great friend, colleague, and mentor when David P. Currie passed away on October 15, 2007. We will maintain his webpage here for a while for informational and sentimental purposes. His obituary is available here.

Following his graduation from law school, David Currie was law clerk first to Judge Henry J. Friendly and then to Justice Felix Frankfurter. He joined the University of Chicago Law School faculty in 1962 and in 1991 was named Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor.

Mr. Currie has written three major casebooks: Cases and Materials on Federal Courts (1968, 1975, 1982, and 1990); Cases and Materials on Pollution (1975); and Cases and Materials on Conflict of Laws (with R. C. Cramton, 1968; with H. H. Kay, 1975, 1981 and 1987; with L. Kramer, 1993 and 2001). He is the author of numerous articles which have been published in legal periodicals as well as various books-including: The Constitution in the Supreme Court: the First Hundred Years (1985), The Second Century (1990), and The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany (1994)-and the treatise Air Pollution: Federal Law and Analysis (1982). His latest books, The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period and The Jeffersonians, appeared in 1997 and 2001.

Mr. Currie was the developments editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1969-70 he served as a member of the Illinois Air Pollution Control Board. In 1970 he became Illinois coordinator of environmental quality and then chairman of the Illinois Pollution Control Board. He is a member of the Illinois bar. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985. He has taught at the Universities of Frankfurt, Hannover, Heidelberg, and Tübingen in Germany and the European University Institute in Florence.

Born: 1936.
Education: B.A., 1957, University of Chicago; LL.B., 1960, Harvard University.