Richard D. (Richard Dudley) Currier

Educated at Bridgeport High School, Yale, Boston University Law School, and New York Law School, Richard Dudley Currier built a career at the intersection of law, business, and education. A biographical sketch from the 1917–1918 volume New Jersey First Citizens notes that he won Yale's James Gordon Bennett prize for the highest work in history and economics in his class.

Currier is most closely associated with Commercial Law, written with Samuel Williston and Richard W. Hill for the American Institute of Banking. The book was designed to explain contracts, corporations, property, negotiable instruments, and other core legal topics in a practical way for bankers, showing his interest in making legal knowledge useful beyond the courtroom.

He also appears in library records as the compiler of The Sailor's Log, linked to the Seamen's Branch of the Legal Aid Society in New York. Taken together, the surviving records suggest a writer and legal educator whose work was aimed less at literary fame than at helping readers understand the rules shaping everyday commercial life.