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Robert J. Currie

Dalhousie University

Robert J. Currie, KC, is Professor of Law and Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University.
He is a specialist in international and transnational criminal law, with research interests including transnational criminal law, international criminal law, social media law, international litigation, international law, cyberbullying, evidence, extradition, civil procedure and criminal law.
Professor Currie holds a BA Honours from St FX, an MA from Carleton, an LLB from Dalhousie and an LLM from Edinburgh. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2000. His teaching includes International Law, Evidence, Jessup Moot, International Criminal Law and Comparative Criminal Law.
His research focuses on international and transnational criminal law, an area in which he also teaches a seminar course. His 2010 book, International and Transnational Criminal Law, was shortlisted for the Walter Owen Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Literature in 2011, and the fourth edition will be published in 2026. 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.
His selected publications include Transnational and Cross-Border Criminal Law: Canadian Perspectives, Wrongful Extradition: Reforming the Committal Phase of Canada’s Extradition Law, International & Transnational Criminal Law, co-authored with Joseph Rikhof, Cross-Border Evidence Gathering in Transnational Crime Cases: Is the Microsoft Ireland Case the “Next Frontier”?, Electronic Devices at the Border: The Next Frontier of Canadian Search and Seizure Law?, the Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law, co-edited with N. Boister, and Law Beyond Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in an Age of Globalization, co-authored with S. Coughlan and others.
Professor Currie has received several awards and honours. In 2023, he was appointed His Majesty’s Counsel Learned in the Law, received the Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, and was co-recipient of the Governor General’s Innovation Award. In 2021, he was named Dalhousie Distinguished Research Professor, and in 2008 he received the Dalhousie Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching.
His service and activity include coaching the Schulich School of Law’s Jessup Moot team, serving as Director of the Law and Technology Institute from 2010 to 2017, membership on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, serving as a Faculty Associate of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, membership of the Faculty for the Federation of Law Societies’ National Criminal Law Program, and serving as Vice-President and a Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Council on International Law.