Brainerd Currie

Brainerd Currie (20 December 1912 - 7 September 1965) was a law professor noted for his work in conflict of laws and his creation of the concept of the governmental interests analysis. [http://www.law.duke.edu/features/news_brainerd_series.html Harvard Law’s Janet Halley Speaks at 36th Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture ] ] He was the father of law professor David P. Currie.

Currie attended Mercer Junior College and received a law degree from Mercer University's law school in 1935, followed by an A.B. from Mercer University in 1937.cite web|publisher=Duke Law Journal|date=1966|title=Brainerd Currie, Five Tributes|volume=1966|page=2|author=Elvin R. Latty|url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0012-7086(196624)2%3A1966%3A1%3C2%3ABCFT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8] Currie taught law at Mercer, Wake Forest College, University of Georgia Law School, Duke Law School, University of Chicago Law School, was part of the first faculty at UCLA Law School in 1949, and dean at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He worked at the Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stabilization during World War II.

Since 1967, Duke Law has had an annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture; the first speaker was California Supreme Court Justice Roger Traynor.

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*Conflict of laws in the United States

Brainerd Currie is also considered the poet laureate of law professors, and penned the legal nonsense classic "The Rose of Aberlone" which you may read here:http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/rubinfeldd/LS145/roseofaberlone.htm

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