John Currie

A Short Description of the Giant's Causeway, in the North of Ireland. Illustrated by a Correct Map. Ms. Notes. John Currie

Publisher Marketing: Title: A Short Description of the Giant's Causeway, in the north of Ireland ... Illustrated by a correct map. MS. notes. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Currie, John; 1812. 8 p.; 8 . 10390.h.1. Contributor Bio:  Currie, John John Currie teaches International Law, Constitutional Law, Torts, and Legal Research and Writing in the Common Law Section, Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Currie was an associate with the firm Lang Michener in both Toronto and Ottawa, where his practice focused on civil litigation, administrative and constitutional law, as well as agency work at the Supreme Court of Canada. While in practice he acted"inter alia" for the Government of Canada during the Somalia Inquiry and as Supreme Court of Canada agent for Delwin Vriend in "Vriend v. Alberta". Professor Currie holds a combined specialist degree in astronomy and physics from the University of Toronto, an LL. B. from the University of Ottawa, and an LL. M. from the University of Cambridge where he studied international and European Union law. He is co-author of "Injunctions" (1996), "Supreme Court of Canada Manual: Practice and Advocacy" (1996), "Settlement Procedure and Precedents in Ontario" (1998), and "The Law of Criminal Attempt", 2nd ed. (2000) and a contributor to various journals on international legal issues. He is currently consulting on a Russian law reform project funded by the World Bank, and sits on the Executive of the Canadian Council on International Law.