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

Current Year Courses

• 49801 1 American Law and the Rhetoric of Race
  This course presents an episodic study of the ways in which American law has treated legal issues involving race. Two episodes are studied in detail: the criminal law of slavery during the antebellum period and the constitutional attack on state-imposed segregation in the twentieth century. The case method is used, although close attention is paid to litigation strategy as well as to judicial opinions. Grades are based on class participation and a final examination.
  Spring (3)
  
  
• 49901 18 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Constitutional Revolution of 1937
• Holmes: Jurist And Icon. 478
• Problems In Supreme Court History. 572
• Legal Reasoning
• The Elements of Judicial Strategy
• American Law and the Rhetoric of Race
• History of American Legal Thought
• Practical Discourse II
• Contracts
• Equality and the Constitution
• The First Amendment
• Rhetoric of Legal Ethics
• Criminal Law
• The Constitution of John Marshall
• Junior Workshop (PERL)
• Holmes' The Common Law
• The Rhetoric of Law
• Crime and Punishment
• Elements of the Law
• Individualism & Modern Republicanism (SocSci 152)
• Problems in Supreme Court History