Currie, Brainerd
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Description
Brainerd Currie (1912–1965) is credited as the originator of ‘governmental interest analysis’ (→ Interest and policy analysis in private international law) and is recognized as one of the leaders of the ‘conflicts revolution’ that transformed → choice-of-law thinking in the United States. Considered an intellectual giant, Currie, who died at 52, ignited a conflict-of-laws debate among jurists and scholars that continues long after his tragic death. His path-breaking articles, written from the 1950s to the early 1960s in leading American law reviews—including the Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review and Yale Law Journal—appear together in a collection, Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws (Duke University Press 1963)—one of the best known books in the USA on conflict of laws. In 1965, the legal honor society known as The Order of the Coif recognized Currie’s work by awarding Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws with its first ever Triennial Coif Award for legal writing ‘that evidences creative talent of the highest order’.
Source Publication
Encyclopedia of Private International Law
Source Editors/Authors
Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio
Publication Date
2017
Volume Number
1: Entries A-H
Recommended Citation
Silberman, Linda J., "Currie, Brainerd" (2017). Faculty Chapters. 1418.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1418
