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Barry Currier - Dean and Professor of Law
Barry Currier became the Dean of Concord Law School in June 2004. He brings to the position more than 30 years of experience in legal education and the legal profession.
Dean Currier earned his B.A. from UCLA in 1968 and his J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1971. He served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1971 to 1972. Thereafter, he practiced law at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, California.
Dean Currier began his law teaching career at the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1974. He spent a year as a visiting faculty member at Duke Law School (1976 to 1977) and a semester as a visiting faculty member at Monash University Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia (1985). From 1977 to 1996 he was a faculty member at the University of Florida College of Law. There, he was Associate Dean (1990 to 1996), Acting Director of the Graduate Tax Program (1983 to 1984), Professor of Law (1980 to 1996), and Associate Professor of Law (1977 to 1980). From 1996 until 2000, Dean Currier served as Dean and professor of law at Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. His academic areas of interest are land finance, land use planning, real property, and income taxation.
In 2000, Dean Currier became Deputy Consultant on Legal Education at the American Bar Association in Chicago, Illinois, the position he left to become the Dean at Concord. At the ABA, Dean Currier worked closely with the Consultant on Legal Education and the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the recognized accrediting agency for J.D. programs in the United States, on the law school approval and review process. He worked with various committees of the Section, including the Accreditation Committee, Standards Review Committee, and Bar Admissions Committee, on matters and projects of significance for legal education and the legal profession in the United States.
Dean Currier is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, and the Urban Land Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Access Group, a company in the student loan business that is the major private lender to law students in the United States.
Education:
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
J.D., University of Southern California
State Bar Membership:
California
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