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Nationality
  
United States

Name
  
David Currie


Parents
  
Brainerd Currie

Born
  
May 29, 1936Macon, Georgia (
1936-05-29
)

Alma mater
  
Harvard Law SchoolUniversity of Chicago

Influences
  
Henry FriendlyFelix Frankfurter

Died
  
October 15, 2007, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Books
  
The Constitution in the Su, The Constitution in Congre, The Constitution of the Fed, Federal jurisdiction in a nutsh, Federal courts

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David P. Currie (1936–2007) was the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, noted for his histories of the Constitution in Congress and the Supreme Court, his casebooks on federal courts and conflict of laws, and his award-winning teaching at the Law School.[1] He was the son of legal scholar Brainerd Currie. His wife was Barbara Flynn Currie, Majority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives.

Born on May 29, 1936, in Macon, Georgia, Currie earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1957, and a LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1960, where he served on the Harvard Law Review. After clerking for Judge Henry Friendly and then Justice Felix Frankfurter, he joined the Chicago Law faculty in 1962. His books include The Constitution of the United States, The Constitution in the Supreme Court: the First Hundred Years (1985), The Second Century (1990), the four volume The Constitution in Congress, and The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany (1994). He was also the author of the 1970 Illinois Environmental Protection Act and the first chair of the Illinois Pollution Control Board.

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