George C. Christie (born March 3, 1934) is the
James B. Duke
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Emeritus Professor of Law at
Duke University School of Law in
Durham,
North Carolina, where he taught
jurisprudence and
tort law before retiring from teaching in 2013.
Early life and education
Christie was born in
New York City in 1934. His father, himself a lawyer, emigrated from
Greece to the United States in 1920.
He was awarded his
A.B. in 1955 and his
J.D. in 1957, both from
Columbia University. While at Columbia he was editor-in-chief
of the
Columbia Law Review. In 1962 he was granted a Diploma in International Law from
Cambridge University. Later, in 1966 he received
S.J.D.
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Australia
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from
Harvard University.
Career
Christie was admitted to the bar in New York in 1957 and in the
District of Columbia in 1958. He spent two years in private practice in Washington D.C. and from 1960-1961 he was a Ford Fellow at Harvard Law School. From 1961-1962 he was a
Fulbright Scholar
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at Cambridge University. Following his time at Cambridge he became a member of the faculty at
University of Minnesota Law School. In 1966 he left the University of Minnesota and returned to Washington D.C. where he served as the Assistant General Counsel for the Near East and South Asia of the
Agency for International Development.
He has been on the faculty of Duke University School of Law since 1967.
He received an Honorary Doctorate from the
University of Athens in 2007.
Christie influenced the Duke University academic governance through the so-called ''Christie Rule'', recommended by a committee he was chairing in 1972. The rule aims to guarantee that the voice of the faculty be heard prior to the Board of Trustees reaching significant decisions.
Selected works
Books
* ''Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values'',
Oxford University Press 2011,
* ''The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument'',
Kluwer Academic 2000, , translated in
French
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with introduction by
Guy Haarscher
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as ''L'auditoire universel dans l'argumentation juridique'', Bruylant 2005,
* ''Law, Norms and Authority'',
Duckworth 1982,
Case Books
* ''Advanced Torts: Cases and Materials'',
West Academic Publishing 2004, 3d ed. 2018 (with Joseph Sanders),
* ''Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts'', West Academic Publishing 1983, 5th ed. 2012 (with James E. Meeks & Jonathan Cardi),
* ''Jurisprudence: Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law'', West Academic Publishing 1973, 3d ed. 2008 (with Patrick H. Martin),
References
External links
Duke University Law School personal pageArticles available in the Duke Law Scholarship RepositoryAuthor pageon
SSRN
{{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, George C.
1934 births
Living people
American legal scholars
Philosophers of law
Harvard Law School alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Duke University School of Law faculty
American people of Greek descent