Dennis J. Hutchinson : Publications

Books

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox, paperback ed., Univ. of Chicago Press (2004) (edited with David J. Garrow).

Preface, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Edward H. Levi (Zhong Zhuang, trans.) (Chinese University of Political Studies Press 2002).

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington (University of Chicago Press 2002) (edited with David J. Garrow).

The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White (New York: The Free Press, 1998) (a New York Times "Notable Book of 1998").

Scholarly Articles

"Aspen and the Transformation of Harry Blackmun," 2005 Supreme Court Review 307.

"Perspectives on Brown," 8 The Green Bag 2d 43 (2004)

"Two Cheers for Judicial Restraint: Justice White and the Role of the Supreme Court," 74 U. Colo. L. Rev.  1409 (2003).

"'Achilles Heel of the Constitution:' Justice Jackson and the Japanese Exclusion Cases," 2002 Supreme Court Review 455.

"Elements of the Law," 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 141 (2003).

"Credos," 112 Yale L. J. 983 (2003).

"Remembering Grant Gilmore," 6 The Green Bag 2d 67 (2002).

Review of St. Clair and Gugin, "Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography," H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line (July 6, 2002).

"A Century of Social Reform: The Judicial Role," 4 The Green Bag 2d 151 (Winter 2001).

Review of Urofsky, "Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953," 17 Law & History Rev. 205 (1999).

"Remembering Justice Powell," 2 The Green Bag (N.S.) 163 (Winter 1998).

"Whizzer White at Yale," 1 The Green Bag (n.s.) 137 (1998).

"'The Ideal New Frontier Justice,'" 1997 Supreme Court Review 373.

"Justice Jackson and the Nuremburg Trials," Journal of Supreme Court History 105 (1996).

Commentary, "Judicial Biography: Amicus Curiae," 70 NYU L. Rev. 723 (1995).

"Harry A. Blackmun" in IV Friedman & Israel, The Justices of the United States Supreme Court (Chelsea House 2d ed. 1995).

"Hugo Black Among Friends," (Book Review), 93 Mich. L. Rev. 1885 (May 1995).

"The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White," 103 Yale L. J. 43 (1993).

Various essays in Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court (1992) (including Brown v. Board of Education, William O. Douglas).

"Robert H. Jackson," in New York and the Union, Stephen L. Schechter & Richard B. Bernstein, eds. (1990).

"The Felix Frankfurter Papers" (Microform Review), 75 Journal of American History 1384 (1989).

"The Black-Jackson Feud," 1988 Supreme Court Review 203.

Book Review, Frank Murphy: The Washington Years, S. Fine, 1 Benchmark 54 (1985).

Biographical sketches of John Quincy Adams, Joseph Walter Bingham, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Elihu Root, Harlan Fiske Stone, Joseph Story, in Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law, A. W. B. Simpson, ed. (Butterworths 1984).

Book Review Note, Constitutional Faiths, M. Silverstein, (1984), 34 J. Legal Ed. 748 (1984).

"The Business of the Supreme Court, O. T. 1982," 50 U. Chi. L. Rev. 628 (1983) (with Philip B. Kurland).

"Hail to the Chief: Earl Warren and the Supreme Court" (Book Review), 81 Mich. L. Rev. 922 (1983).

"More Substantive Equal Protection? A Note on Plyler v. Doe," 1983 Supreme Court Review 167.

"Mr. Justice Frankfurter and the Business of the Supreme Court, 1949-1961," 1980 Supreme Court Review 143.

"Unanimity and Desegregation: Decision-Making in the Supreme Court, 1948-1958," 68 Geo. L. J. 1 (1979).

Miscellaneous Publications

"Biography overstates its case;  Earl Warren's path to the Supreme Court," Chicago Tribune C3 (October 8, 2006).

IN MEMORIAM:  Clayton S. White (1912-2004), XCI American Oxonian 380 (2004 [2005]).

"Bench Press," review of O'Connor, The Majesty of the Law, New York Times Book Review §7, p. 22(June 29, 2003).  

IN MEMORIAM:  Byron R. White (1917-2002), LXXXIX American Oxonian 463 (2002 [2003]).

"Dismantling a Legend," review of Murphy, Wild Bill, Chicago Tribune Books 1 (March 16, 2003).

"Resolutions of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in Honor of Justice White," 537 U.S. vi (2003) (with Lance Liebman).

"Rehnquist's Law," review of Starr, First Among Equals:  The Supreme Court in American Life, New York Times Book Review (Oct. 13, 2002).
 
"Supreme Idealist," review of Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, New York Times Book Review 18 (Jan. 13, 2002).

"Byron R. White," in The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska, 2001).

"Tribunals of war: A history lesson in mass crimes," Chicago Tribune C21 (November 18, 2001).

"Law and Politics in the U.S. Supreme Court," Chicago Tribune 21 (Dec. 17, 2000).

"Supreme Court TV," Chicago Tribune 21 (Nov. 29, 2000).

"The Great Chief Justice," review of Smith, John Marshall, Chicago Tribune, at §14:5 (Dec. 22, 1996).

"The GOP Hold on Judgeships: Partisan politics have ground confirmations to a halt," Legal Times 25 (March 25, 1996); Reply, April 22.

"The Papers of Thurgood Marshall," 6 Appellate Law Review 72 (1994).

"A Master of the Bench,"review of Gunther, Learned Hand, Wall Street Journal A2 (July 12, 1994).

Moderator, "Perspectives on White: A Roundtable," 79 ABA Jo. 68 (1993).

"Byron R. White," in The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1993, Clare Cushman, ed., (Congressional Quarterly [1993]), reprinted in XIV Quarterly: The Supreme Court Historical Society 10-11, 18-19 (1993).

"And Besides Gut Feelings, George?" (Op-Ed Page), Chicago Tribune A25 (June 30, 1989).

"Robert H. Jackson, Independent Advocate," New York Notes, published by the New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution (Fall 1988).

"At Issue: Too Many Friends of the Court? With Friends Like These..." 70 ABA Journal 16 (Aug. 1984) (with Philip B. Kurland).

"The Burger Court: It's Too Casual About Its Past," Washington Post B8 ("Topic A") (July 10, 1983).

"Burger Needs to Define His Court Before Creating New One," Los Angeles Times (and Times-Post Syndicate) (Feb. 9, 1983).

"Resolutions of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in Honor of Justice Fortas," 459 U.S. v-xvi (1982), reprinted as Lee, "In Memoriam: Abe Fortas," 1983 Yearbook of the Supreme Court Historical Society 7.

"William O. Douglas: Justice for All," Newsday 37 (Jan. 21, 1980).

Biographical sketches, "Earl Warren," "Warren Burger," Colliers Encyclopedia (1979 et seq.).

Journals

The Supreme Court Review (1991 - present) (edited with David A. Strauss and Geoffrey R. Stone).