Dennis J. Hutchinson
Sr. Lect. in Law and William Rainey Harper Professor in the College, Master of the New Collegiate Division, and Assoc. Dean of the College
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9575
email: dennis_hutchinson@law.uchicago.edu

Co-Chairman, Committee on Resolutions, Memorial Service of the Supreme Court Bar for Byron R. White, Nov. 18, 2002, Washington, D.C.

Referee: University of Chicago Press.

Member, Board of Directors, Great Books Foundation, from 1996-2002.

Referee: Oxford University Press.

Editor, The Supreme Court Review, since 1981.

Member, Committees of Selection, American Rhodes Scholarships, 1974-1980, 1983-1992, from 1997 (District V Secretary since 1998).

Member, Boards of Overseers, Bowdoin College, 1975-87, Trustees, since 1987.

Co-Director, Institute for Constitutional Studies (Supreme Court Historical Society), June 1999. "The Aims of Education" (Annual Address to Entering Students in The College), Sept. 19, 1999.

Member, Board of Education, Illinois Community Consolidated School District No. 181 (K-8), 1987-1995 (President, 1993-1995).

Supreme Court contributing editor, WBEZ (FM) Radio (NPR), Chicago, 1990-1997.

Convocation Speaker, The University of Chicago, June 8-9, 1990 ("Two Cheers for Robert Maynard Hutchins").

Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Montana State University, January 1986 (Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, "History, Modesty and Constitutional Interpretation," class lectures on "Law, Authority and Legitimacy in Billy Budd" and "Rights of Persons and Rights of Things Today").

Member, Governing Committee, Hyde Park Union Church Nursery School, 1982-84

AMPART Lecturer (USIA), November-December 1983, on American Constitutional Law, in Denmark (Aarhus University), Italy (Trieste, Bologna, Milan, Rome), F. R. G. (Heidelberg, Bonn).

Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-1986.

Summer Stipendary Fellow, American History and Law, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Chicago, IL., June 12-July 21, 1978.

President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine, 1974-76.

Professional awards

Professional Awards AMOCO Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching, 1992.

University of Chicago nominee, Professor of the Year Award, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), 1988, 1989.

Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1984.

Peter B. Ritzma Associate Professor, The College, The University of Chicago, 1981-82.

Academic service and administration (University of Chicago)

Academic Service and Administration (University of Chicago) Master, New Collegiate Division, and Associate Dean of the College, from 1992 (reappointed, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004).

Program Chairman, Law, Letters & Society, from 1992.

PERL (Politics, Economics, Rhetoric and Law)
     Program Chairman, 1987-1992.
     Program Associate Chairman, 1982-87.

Committees

Chair, Board of Student and Campus Life, 2002-2004
Chair, Lectureship Review Committee in the College, 1989-1991
Member (elected), Committee of the College Council, 1989-1990
Member (appointed), University Council on Teaching, 1989-1994
University Adviser for Marshall Scholarships in the College, 1989-1997
Chair, British Scholarships Committee, 1990-1997
Member, Board of Athletics and Recreational Sports, 1991-1994
Member, Task Force on Undergraduate Education, 1994-1995
Chair, Drafting Committee, College Curriculum Review Committee, 1997
Member, Search Committee: Dean of Students in the College, 2001
Chair, Search Committee: Vice President and Dean of Students in the University, 2001
Member, Board of Student and Campus Life, from 2001
Chair, Steering Committee, Task Force on Housing, 2002
Member, Board of University Publications, from 2003