Schulich School of Law

Robert J. Currie, KC

Professor of Law; Viscount Bennett Professor of Law

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Schulich School of Law , Law & Technology Institute

Email: robert.currie@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1012
Mailing Address:

Room 435, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2

Research Topics:

Transnational criminal law
International criminal law
Social media law
International litigation
International law
Cyberbullying
Evidence
Extradition
Civil procedure
Criminal law

Education

BA Hons (St FX)
MA (Carleton)
LLB (Dalhousie)
LLM (Edinburgh)

Bar admissions

Nova Scotia, 2000

Teaching

International Law (LAWS 2012)
Evidence (LAWS 2008)
Jessup Moot (LAWS 2103)
International Criminal Law (LAWS 2197)
Comparative Criminal Law, (LAWS 2009)

Research interests

Professor Currie is a specialist in the area of international and transnational criminal law, and he teaches a seminar course in this subject. His 2010 book, International and Transnational Criminal Law, was shortlisted for the Walter Owen Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Literature in 2011. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and comments in this field and his work is regularly cited by Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Selected awards & honours

2008 - Dalhousie Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching

Selected publications

Robert J. Currie, “Wrongful Extradition: Reforming the Committal Phase of Canada’s Extradition Law” (2021) 44:6 Manitoba Law Journal 1
Robert J Currie & Joseph Rikhof, International & Transnational Criminal Law, 3^rd ed (Toronto: Irwin, 2020)
Robert J. Currie, “Extradition” in Joel E. Pink & David C. Perrier, eds, From Crime to Punishment, 9^th ed (Toronto: Carswell, 2020)
Robert J. Currie, “Cross-Border Evidence Gathering in Transnational Crime Cases: Is the Microsoft Ireland Case the ‘Next Frontier’?” [2016] 54 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 63
Robert J. Currie, “Electronic Devices at the Border: The Next Frontier of Canadian Search and Seizure Law?” (2016) 14 Canadian Journal of Law & Technology 289
Robert J. Currie & N. Boister, eds, Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law (London: Routledge, 2015).
S. Coughlan et al, Law Beyond Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in an Age of Globalization (Toronto: Irwin, 2014).
Robert J. Currie, "The Evolution of the Law of Evidence: Plus Ça Change…?” (2011) 15 Can Crim L Rev 213.
Robert J. Currie & T. Scassa, "New First Principles? Assessing the Internet’s Challenges to Jurisdiction” (2011) 42 Geo J Int'l L 1017.

Service & activity

Coach of the Schulich School of Law’s Jessup Moot team
Director of the Law and Technology Institute 2010-2017
Member, Board of Directors, International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law (ISRCL)
Faculty Associate of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute
Member of the Faculty for the Federation of Law Societies’ National Criminal Law Program
Vice-President and a Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia
Member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL)

Dalhousie University