Curriculum Vitae
George C. Christie
James B. Duke Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law
Corner of Towerview Drive & Science Drive
Box 90360
Durham, NC 27708-0360
Tel: 919/613-7052
Fax: 919/613-7231
E-mail: gcc@law.duke.edu
5212 Twin Pines Lane
Durham, NC 27705-8599
Tel: 919/489-6171
Principal Professional Positions
- James B. Duke Professor of Law, 1979 to present
- Professor of Law, 1967 to 1979
Duke University School of Law
- Fellow, 1980 to 1981
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
- Assistant General Counsel For Near East and South Asia, 1966 to 1967
Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State
- Professor of Law, September 1963 to January 1966
- Associate Professor of Law September 1962 to September 1963
University of Minnesota School of Law
- Associate, January 1958 to August 1960
Covington & Burling, Washington, DC
Important Administrative Responsibilities
- Chairman, 1984 to 1985
- Member, 1979 to 1988
Advisory Committee on Distinguished Professorships, Duke University
- Chairman of Committee, 1971 to 1972
which established system of faculty participation in the governance of Duke University
- Chairman of Committee, 1969 to 1970
which established system of student participation in the governance of Duke Law School
Other University-Wide Administrative Responsibilities
- Member, Management Board, Duke University 1988 to 1994
- Chairman, 1982 to 1985
- Member, 1982 to 1986
University Judicial Review Board, Duke University
- Member, Academic Priorities Committee, Duke University 1984 to 1987
- Member, Research Policy Advisory Committee, Duke University 1983 to 1984
- Member, Visiting Committee, Duke University Bookstores 1982 to 1984
- Member, Research Council, Duke University 1978 to 1981
Visiting Professorships
- Visiting Professor, Spring 2000
University of Athens Law School, Greece - Visiting Professor of Law, 1991 to 1992
Northwestern University School of Law - Visiting Freda Alverson Professor of Law, Spring 1988
The National Law Center
George Washington University, Washington, DC - Visiting Professor, May 1985
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
People’s University, Beijing, China - Visiting Senior Lecturer of Law, Winter term 1985
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Northern Hemisphere Summer 1985) - Visiting Lecturer, Summer 1980
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - Visiting Professor of Law, 1977 to 1978
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Visiting Professor of Law, Summer 1977
University of Michigan - Visiting Professor of Law, Summer 1974
University of Florida - Visiting Professor of Law, Summer 1970
University of Michigan - Member of Faculty, Summer 1969
Orientation Program in American Law, Ford Foundation Program for foreign lawyers about to enter U.S. graduate study, Brown University
Important Speeches
- Public Lecture: Doshisha University Law School, May 2005
Kyoto, Japan - Public Lecture: University of Athens, October 2003
Athens, Greece - Keynote Address: Conference of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy , June 2002
Canberra, Australia - Public Lecture: (in Greek) University of Athens Law School, May 2000
Athens, Greece - Eason-Weinmann Lecture: Tulane University School of Law, October 1999
New Orleans, Louisiana - Principal Speaker: Congr�s International Chaim Perelman, October 1991
Brussels, Belgium - Inaugural Speaker: Perelman Foundation, November 1986
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - Keynote Speaker: Conference on Data Collection: Individual Rights to Privacy versus Public Program Needs, November 1976
University of Vermont - Pope John XXIII Lecturer: Catholic University of America Law School, March 1976
Important Consulting
- Consultant: National Conference of Bar Examiners, Summer 1992
Evaluation of Multi-State Bar Examination - Consultant: To the General Counsel of Duke University, 1983
On Medical Malpractice Problems - Consultant: To the General Counsel of Duke University, Fall 1977
Rendered opinion on range of investments permitted from University’s unrestricted endowment - Consultant: President’s Commission on Federal Statistics, 1971
Activities in National Security Area
- Member: Board of Advisors, 1993 to present
Center on Law, Ethics and National Security - Participant: Triangle Universities, 1980 to present
(National) Security Seminar - Participant: ABA Law Professors Workshops on 1977, 1978, 1979
U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China Relations - Participant: Sixth Annual National Securities Affairs Conf., July 1979
National Security Affairs Institute, Washington, DC - Participant: Seventeenth Annual National Strategy Seminar, 1971
Army War College
Other Professional Activities
- Member: Consultative Committee, 2006
Restatement (Third) of Torts: Economic Loss - Member: Consultative Committee, 2001 to present
Restatement (Third) of Torts: Bodily Harm - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Geneva, Switzerland Summer 2006
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Geneva, Switzerland Summer 2004
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Fukuoka, Japan Summer 2004
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Geneva, Switzerland Summer 2002
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Spetses, Greece Summer 1998
Tulane University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Geneva, Switzerland Summer 1997
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Hong Kong, Summer 1995
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Summer Program in Brussels, Belgium Summer 1993
Duke University School of Law - Member of Faculty: Course on Raising Rights Consciousness, Summer 1993
Democracy after Communism Foundation
Budapest, Hungary - Lecturer on Tort Reform Proposals: State Appellate Judges Seminar, Mobile, AL March 1987
- Member Task Force on Punitive Damages, 1986
Section of Tort and Insurance Practice, ABA - Scholar-in-Residence: McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, VA Summer 1983
Lecturer: Centre pour Logique Juridique, March 1981
Brussels, Belgium - Member Board of Editors, Law and Philosophy, 1981 to present
- Member of Faculty: Conference for Federal Appellate Judges, January 1979
Los Angeles, CA - Member: Board of Editors, 1971 to 1976
American Journal of Legal History - Chairman: Section on Jurisprudence, 1975
Association of American Law Schools - Member: American Law Institute, 1970 to present
- Member: Committee on Middle Eastern Law, 1967 to 1973
Section on International and Comparative Law
American Bar Association
Education
- S.J.D., Harvard University, 1966
- Ford Fellow in Law Teaching, Harvard University, 1960 to 1961
- Diploma in International Law, Cambridge University, 1962 (Certified 1963)
- Fulbright Scholar, Jesus College, Cambridge University, 1961 to 1962
- J.D., Columbia University, 1957
First in Law School, Class 1957
Editor-in-Chief of Columbia Law Review, 1956-57 - A.B., Columbia University, 1955
Phi Beta Kappa - 6 credit hours, London School of Economics, Summer 1953
Professional Development
- Advanced Summer Institute Center for Law and Economics, Summer 1982
- Summer Institute Center for Law and Economics, Summer 1980
- Summer Institute on Roman Law University of California, Berkeley, Summer 1973
Bibliography
Books
- L’Auditoire Universel dans l’Argumentation Juridique [The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument (2000)], French Edition (Guy Haarscher, trans.) (Bruylant, Belgium), published January 2005.
- Advanced Torts: Cases and Materials (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published November 2004.
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, Fourth Edition (with J. Meeks, E. Pryor, and J. Sanders) (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published June 2004.
- The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument (Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands), published May 2000.
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, Third Edition (with J. Meeks, E. Pryor, and J. Sanders) (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published June 1997; Teachers Manual (240 pp.), published April 1998.
- Jurisprudence — Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law, Second Edition (with P. Martin) (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published May 1995.
- Outline of the Law of Torts (with J. Phillips) (Casenotes Publishing Co., Los Angeles, Calif.), published September 1990; Supplement, 1992; Second edition, 1996.
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, Second Edition (with J. Meeks) (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published March 1990.
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published April 1983.
- Law, Norms and Authority (Duckworth, London), published August 1982.
- Sum and Substance of the Law of Torts (Creative Educational Services, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.), published July 1980.
- Jurisprudence — Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.), published July 1973.
Articles Published in Professional Journals
- The Unwarranted Conclusions Drawn From Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co. Concerning the Defense of Necessity, Issues in Legal Scholarship, Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co. and the Doctrine of Necessity (2006) article 7.
- The Adjudication of Human Rights, 13 Jahrbuch f�r recht und ethik [Annual Review of Law and Ethics] (Philosophia Practica Universalis) 417-436 (2005).
- The Importance of Recognizing the Underlying Assumptions of Legal and Moral Arguments: of Law and Rawls, 28 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 39-52 (2003).
- The Ideal Audience in a World of Different Legal Traditions, 4 Isopoliteia (2000) (written and published in Greek).
- Some Key Jurisprudential Issues of the Twenty-First Century, 8 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (2000).
- Reason and Will: A Comment, 10 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 249 (1999).
- The Defense of Necessity Considered from the Legal and Moral Points of View, 48 Duke Law Journal 975 (1999).
- The Uneasy Place of Principle in Tort Law, 49 Southern Methodist University Law Review 525-42 (1996). (This is a somewhat revised and expanded version of the essay that appeared in Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law, infra Part IV.)
- Ideal Theories of Argument and the Dishonest Judge, 2 Eudikia (Revue du Centre de Philosophie et de th�orie du Droit) 53-62 (1992).
- Judicial Review of Findings of Fact, 87 Northwestern Law Review 14-56 (1992).
- Current Trends in the American Law of Punitive Damages, 20 Anglo-American Law Review 349-70 (1991). Reprinted in Products Liability (1991) (G. Howells and J. Phillips, eds.) at 167-88.
- On the Moral Obligation to Obey the Law, 1990 Duke Law Journal 1311-36.
- The Recruitment of Law Faculty, 1987 Duke Law Journal 305-15.
- Dworkin’s Empire, 1987 Duke Law Journal 157-89 (Review Essay).
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An Essay on Discretion, 1986 Duke Law Journal 747-78.
Why the First Amendment Should Not Be Interpreted from the Pathological Perspective: A Response to Professor Blasi, 1986 Duke Law Journal 683-95. - The Universal Audience and Predictive Theories of Law, 5 Law And Philosophy 343-50 (1986).
- Underlying Contradictions in the Supreme Court’s Classification of Defamation, 1981 Duke Law Journal 811-21.
- The Perils of Writing an Intellectual History of Torts, 79 Michigan Law Review 947-66 (1981) (Review Essay).
- Legal Aspects of Changing University Investment Strategies, 58 North Carolina Law Review 189-221 (1980).
- Defamatory Opinions and the Restatement (Second) of Torts, 75 Michigan Law Review 1621-43 (1977).
- The Moral Legitimacy of the Minimal State, 19 Arizona Law Review 31-43 (1977).
- Injury to Reputation and the Constitution: Confusion Amidst Conflicting Approaches, 75 Michigan Law Review 43-67 (1976).
- Rhetoric, Consistency and Human Progress, Legal or Otherwise, 26 Catholic University Law Review 73-88 (1976).
- A Model of Judicial Review of Legislation, 48 Southern California Law Review 1306-56 (1975).
- Lawful Departure from Legal Rules: “Jury Nullification” and Legitimated Disobedience, 62 California Law Review 1289-1310 (1974).
- Government Surveillance and Individual Freedom: A Proposed Statutory Response to Laird v. Tatum and the Broader Problem of Government Surveillance of the Individual, 47 New York University Law Review 871-902 (1972).
- Some Thoughts on the Nature of Institutional Obligation, Human Rights (Amintaphil 1, Pollack, ed. 1971), at 275-80.
- The Right to Privacy and the Freedom to Know: A Comment on Professor Miller’s The Assault on Privacy, 119 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 970-91 (1970).
- Presumptions and Assumptions in the Criminal Law: Another View, 1970 Duke Law Journal 919-42 (co-authored with A. Kenneth Pye).
- Objectivity in the Law, 78 Yale Law Journal 1311-50 (1969).
- The Model of Principles, 1968 Duke Law Journal 649-69.
- Personal and Institutional Rights in Community, 18 Catholic University Law Review 1-22 (1968) (also printed, in substantially the same form, in 159 American Ecclesiastical Review 73-95 (1968)).
- The Notion of Validity in Modern Jurisprudence, 48 Minnesota Law Review 1049-79 (1965).
- Vagueness and Legal Language, 48 Minnesota Law Review 885-911 (1964).
- What Constitutes a Taking of Property under International Law?, 1962 British Year Book of International Law 307-08.
Book Reviews
- Damaska, The Faces of Justice and State Authority, 18 Contemporary Sociology 93-94 (1989).
- Kalman, Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-60, 4 Constitutional Commentary 400-09 (1987).
- Perelman, Justice, Law and Argument, 80 Michigan Law Review 715-20 (1982).
- Twining, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement, 20 New York Law Forum 438-42 (1974).
- Morris, The Justification of Law, 67 American Political Science Review 1369 (1973).
- Goebel, Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 (Volume I of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Case History of the Supreme Court of the United States), 58 A.B.A. Journal 495-97 (1972).
- Stumpf, Morality and the Law, 1967 Duke Law Journal 233-38.
- Baxter, The Law of International Waterways, 41 New York University Law Review 238-40 (1966).
Other Publications
- Obedience/Disobedience to Constituted Authority in Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing Co. 1999).
- The Uneasy Place of Principle in Tort Law in Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law 113-130 (D. Owen, ed.) (Oxford University Press 1995).
- Afterword to L. Negrier-Dormont and S. Tzitzis, Criminologie de l’Acte et Philosophie Penale: De l’Ontologie Criminelle des Anciens � la Victimologie Appliqu�e des Modernes (1994).
- The Universal Audience and the Law in Chaim Perelman et la Pens�e Contemporaine 43-67 (G. Haarscher, ed.) (1993).
- Foreword to I.A. Tassopoulos, The Constitutional Problem of Subversive Advocacy in the United States of America and Greece (1993).
- Positive Law, in 8 The Guide to American Law: Everyone’s Legal Encyclopedia 237-38 (1984).
- Mechanical Jurisprudence in 7 The Guide to American Law: Everyone’s Legal Encyclopedia 321-22 (1984).
- Due Process of Law — A Confused and Confusing Notion, in Les Notions � Contenu Variable en Droit 57-79 (C. Perelman and R. Vande Elst, eds.) (Centre National Belge de Recherche de Logique 1984).
- Reflections Upon a Recent Trip to China and Possible Changes in the Chinese Legal System, Duke Docket, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1979.
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Some Thoughts on the Legal Problems Raised by the Prospect of Genetic Manipulation, Duke Alumni Register, September 1968, at 4.