Professor of Law
Osgoode Hall Law School
Email: ahutchinson@osgoode.yorku.ca
Website: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/allanchutchinson.html

LLB (London), LLM (Manchester), LLD (Manchester), Barrister of Gray’s Inn, and of the Bar of Ontario.

A member of Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty since 1982, Professor Hutchinson served as associate dean at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1994 to 1996. Recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada, he is currently Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies and External relations). Professor Hutchinson is a legal theorist with an international reputation for his original and provocative writings. As well as publishing in most all of the common-law world’s leading law journals, he has written or edited many books. Much of his work has been devoted to examining the failure of law to live up to its democratic promise. His most recent publication is Evolution and the Common Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005) and he is completing a book on The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance and Democracy.


Selected Publications

The Law School Book: Succeeding at Law School
(Toronto: Publications for Professionals Inc., 2nd ed. 2000).

It’s All In The Game: A Non-Foundationalist Account of Law and Adjudication
(Duke University Press, 2000)

“The Importance of Leading Cases: A Critical Analysis” in Leading Cases of The Twentieth Century (E. O’Dell ed. 2001).

“Making Progress?: Change and The Common Law” (2004), 4 Hibernian Law Journal 25.

“Judges and Politics: an Essay From Canada” (2004), 24 Legal Studies 275.

“Heydon’ Seek: Looking For Law in All The Wrong Places” (2003) 23 Monash Law Review 85 (2003).

“The Role of Judges in Legal Theory and The Role of Legal Theorists in Judging (or ‘Don’t Let The Bastarache Grind You Down’) (2001), 39 Alberta Law Review 657.