Dennis J. Hutchinson (born 1946) is an American legal scholar. After beginning his teaching career at the

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, Hutchinson joined the

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in 1981. Currently, he is the William Rainey Harper Professor at the University of Chicago, a senior lecturer in law, and master of the undergraduate college's New Collegiate Division where he directs the Law, Letters, and Society program. His interests primarily lie in the field constitutional law, paying special attention to issues of race. He is best known within the legal community at large for his work as editor of the Law School's '' Supreme Court Review''.

Early life and career

Hutchinson graduated '' summa cum laude'' from Bowdoin College, studying briefly as a JD candidate at the

before attending Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar in Jurisprudence, where he graduated with a B.A. and M.A. Upon returning to the United States, he completed his formal studies at the

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, where he received an

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. Hutchinson then served as a law clerk to Justice

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and Justice

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of the Supreme Court of the United States. His biography of Byron "Whizzer" White was a ''

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'' 'Notable Book' for 1998. Hutchinson co-edited ''The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington'' in 2002, with David J. Garrow. He was once married to Judge

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, who sits on the

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, and who remains an academic colleague. Hutchinson was one of several law faculty members who were called upon by various media sources to provide commentary about President Barack Obama's tenure teaching constitutional law at the school, and was largely supportive.

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''Booknotes'' interview with Hutchinson on ''The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR’s Washington'', September 8, 2002.Biography
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Early life and career

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