German Law Journal Publishes David Currie Memorial Issue

Readers of this blog may be interested to know that the December issue of the German Law Journal is a memorial issue in honor of David Currie.

Reprinted below is the editorial introduction to the issue by Russell Miller:

On October 15, 2007, long-time University of Chicago law professor David P. Currie passed away.  He has been rightly celebrated in the intervening year as one of the great lights of his generation in the American legal academy.  He was best known for his comprehensive and highly respected work in American constitutional law, federal courts, conflict of laws and environmental law.  Professor Currie’s work with American law was lovingly recalled in the Chicago Law Review (vol. 75 - Winter 2008) and the Autumn 2007 issue of the Green Bag 2d (the engaging journal he helped reestablish in 1997).  But for a generation of Americans and other English speakers who have come under the thrall of German constitutional law Professor Currie is better known as one of the two great American interpreters of the German Basic Law.  As Peter Quint points out in his contribution to this memorial collection, Currie and Notre Dame’s Donald Kommers produced the definitive scholarly treatments of German constitutional law in English.  Their work remains essential today.  It primarily was the publication of the 1994 book, The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany (University of Chicago) that earned Currie his place amongst our leading comparativists.  German Law Journal publishes this memorial to Professor Currie in recognition of this historic contribution.  We are proud to publish two original notes on German constitutional law both of which reflect on Currie’s influence in the field.  We also are proud to republish Markus Dubber’s review of Currie’s book The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.  Finally, it is our honor to republish two of Professor Currie’s seminal articles on German constitutional law.  We have relied upon and admired Professor Currie’s work and we hope to acknowledge with this memorial that the work of the German Law Journal, in no small degree, stands on his shoulders.

Comments

[Mary Kathleen Flynn]

Thanks to @uchicagolaw on Twitter for pointing out the German Law Journal's David Currie Memorial Issue. It's a lovely tribute to Prof. Currie, who is better known to me as Uncle David. :)

All the best,
Mary Kathleen Flynn
@MKFlynn on Twitter

[Kimballcorson]

Prof. Currie, in addition to be a great scholar, was terrific in the class room. Sleep was impossible. Everyone was engaged and entertained in the best possible manner. Nothing but the fondest of memories here.