Allan C Hutchinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2513133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan C Hutchinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutchinson |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHINSON A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-8974-2886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Politics of Constitutional Law
After almost 25 years of jurisprudence under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many of the fears expressed by critics of the Charter have come to pass—judicial review under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms operates as an institutional device to curb more than advance democratic politics and to entrench more than challenge a conservative ideology. The Charter is indeed a potent political weapon, but one that has been and continues to …
Is Killing People Right?
'Great cases' are those judicial decisions around which the common law pivots. In a sequel to the instant classic Is Eating People Wrong?, this book presents eight new great cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Written in a highly accessible yet rigorous style, it explores the social circumstances, institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) and ordinary people whose stories shaped the law. Across the courts' diverse and …
Democracy and Constitutional Change
The relationship between democracy and constitutions is a long and fractitious one. Those who lean towards the constitutionalist side have tended to perceive democracy as a threat to political order and the preservation of important values, whereas those who take a more democratist stance tend to treat constitutions as elite hindrances to popular rule as much as anything else. In this paper, we will give the constitutionalist thesis a broader the…
The Companies We Keep
Playing with Law and Politics
Interpreting Censorship in Canada
Socially organized activity cannot occur without censorship. Going beyond ideological arguments, this collections of essays explores the extent of censorship in Canada today, the forms censorship takes, and the interests it serves
Going Places - Moving beyond Crisis
Everyone has heard the old story about the traveller and the old man. Lost in the desert, a traveller comes across an old man and asks him how to get to where she is supposed to be going. With a wry shake of head, the old man tells the hapless traveller that 'you can't get there from here.' The contemporary progress of much legal theory is like that. Traditional legal scholars seek out ever more inventive routes to reach jurisprudence's promised …
The Reasoning Game
A Postmodern's Hart
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible
Doing the Right Thing? Toward a Postmodern Politics
We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know."-Archibald MacLeish (1928)Joel Handler would have had big problems with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, It is an auteurial tour-de-force by way of a postmodern fable for the ages that is self-consciously perplexing and inconclusive. While focusing on the competing imperatives of the pacificism of Martin Luther King's assimilationist politics and the violence of …
Of Texts and Democratic Narratives
Waiting for Coraf (Or the Beatification of the Charter)
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come ... Or for night to fall ... We have kept our appointment, and that's an end to that. We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?Samuel Beckett was always a man ahead of his time. He would have understood we…
Teaching Procedures
A Poetic Champion Composes
Mice under a Chair
Allan C. Hutchinson, Mice under a Chair: Democracy, Courts, and the Administrative State, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, Special Issue on Administrative Law (Summer, 1990), pp. 374-404
The Rule of Law
"Wheeler"-Dealing
Few matters seem to arouse greater feeling than local politics and sport. Each reflects and reinforces common qualities of robust partisanship and vigorous exercise. When the two combine, tempers are guaranteed to run very high. This unpropitious state of affairs occurred in Leicester in the spring of 1984. The city of Leicester has a significant and established black community, about twenty-five per cent of the population are of Asian or Afro-Ca…
Private Rights/Public Wrongs
Doctor Arbuthnot was not far short of the mark: ‘Law is a bottomless pit.’ It is capable of accommodating all manner of philosophical insight, ideological choice, and hermeneutical possibility. In the three centuries existential reality. With a hubris worthy of the pharaohs, they have sought to shape the legal pit in their own philosophical image. Their goal has been to construct, or to discover, a solid jurisprudential foundation on which to ere…
The Rise and Ruse of Administrative Law and Scholarship
Law, Politics, and the Critical Legal Scholars
Allan C. Hutchinson, Patrick J. Monahan, Law, Politics, and the Critical Legal Scholars: The Unfolding Drama of American Legal Thought, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 1/2, Critical Legal Studies Symposium (Jan., 1984), pp. 199-245
From Cultural Construction to Historical Deconstruction
The linguists, whom one meets everywhere these days, explain that every transaction in our culture-our money and mathematics, our games and gardens, our diet and our sexual activity-is a language; . . . And languages, too, are simply invented systems of exchange, attempts to turn the word into the world, sign into value, script into currency, code into reality. Of course, everywhere . . . there are the politicians and the priests, the ayatollahs …
Trials on Trial
Law as Rule and Principle
Private Rights/Public Wrongs
Doctor Arbuthnot was not far short of the mark: ‘Law is a bottomless pit.’ It is capable of accommodating all manner of philosophical insight, ideological choice, and hermeneutical possibility. In the three centuries existential reality. With a hubris worthy of the pharaohs, they have sought to shape the legal pit in their own philosophical image. Their goal has been to construct, or to discover, a solid jurisprudential foundation on which to ere…
Law, Politics, and the Critical Legal Scholars
Allan C. Hutchinson, Patrick J. Monahan, Law, Politics, and the Critical Legal Scholars: The Unfolding Drama of American Legal Thought, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 1/2, Critical Legal Studies Symposium (Jan., 1984), pp. 199-245
Doing the Right Thing? Toward a Postmodern Politics
We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know."-Archibald MacLeish (1928)Joel Handler would have had big problems with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, It is an auteurial tour-de-force by way of a postmodern fable for the ages that is self-consciously perplexing and inconclusive. While focusing on the competing imperatives of the pacificism of Martin Luther King's assimilationist politics and the violence of …
From Cultural Construction to Historical Deconstruction
The linguists, whom one meets everywhere these days, explain that every transaction in our culture-our money and mathematics, our games and gardens, our diet and our sexual activity-is a language; . . . And languages, too, are simply invented systems of exchange, attempts to turn the word into the world, sign into value, script into currency, code into reality. Of course, everywhere . . . there are the politicians and the priests, the ayatollahs …
Trials on Trial
The Companies We Keep
Democracy and Constitutional Change
The relationship between democracy and constitutions is a long and fractitious one. Those who lean towards the constitutionalist side have tended to perceive democracy as a threat to political order and the preservation of important values, whereas those who take a more democratist stance tend to treat constitutions as elite hindrances to popular rule as much as anything else. In this paper, we will give the constitutionalist thesis a broader the…
Teaching Procedures
"Wheeler"-Dealing
Few matters seem to arouse greater feeling than local politics and sport. Each reflects and reinforces common qualities of robust partisanship and vigorous exercise. When the two combine, tempers are guaranteed to run very high. This unpropitious state of affairs occurred in Leicester in the spring of 1984. The city of Leicester has a significant and established black community, about twenty-five per cent of the population are of Asian or Afro-Ca…
Law as Rule and Principle
Trials on Trial
Law, Politics, and the Critical Legal Scholars
Allan C. Hutchinson, Patrick J. Monahan, Law, Politics, and the Critical Legal Scholars: The Unfolding Drama of American Legal Thought, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 1/2, Critical Legal Studies Symposium (Jan., 1984), pp. 199-245
From Cultural Construction to Historical Deconstruction
The linguists, whom one meets everywhere these days, explain that every transaction in our culture-our money and mathematics, our games and gardens, our diet and our sexual activity-is a language; . . . And languages, too, are simply invented systems of exchange, attempts to turn the word into the world, sign into value, script into currency, code into reality. Of course, everywhere . . . there are the politicians and the priests, the ayatollahs …
The Rise and Ruse of Administrative Law and Scholarship
"Wheeler"-Dealing
Few matters seem to arouse greater feeling than local politics and sport. Each reflects and reinforces common qualities of robust partisanship and vigorous exercise. When the two combine, tempers are guaranteed to run very high. This unpropitious state of affairs occurred in Leicester in the spring of 1984. The city of Leicester has a significant and established black community, about twenty-five per cent of the population are of Asian or Afro-Ca…
Private Rights/Public Wrongs
Doctor Arbuthnot was not far short of the mark: ‘Law is a bottomless pit.’ It is capable of accommodating all manner of philosophical insight, ideological choice, and hermeneutical possibility. In the three centuries existential reality. With a hubris worthy of the pharaohs, they have sought to shape the legal pit in their own philosophical image. Their goal has been to construct, or to discover, a solid jurisprudential foundation on which to ere…
The Rule of Law
A Poetic Champion Composes
Mice under a Chair
Allan C. Hutchinson, Mice under a Chair: Democracy, Courts, and the Administrative State, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, Special Issue on Administrative Law (Summer, 1990), pp. 374-404
Of Texts and Democratic Narratives
Waiting for Coraf (Or the Beatification of the Charter)
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come ... Or for night to fall ... We have kept our appointment, and that's an end to that. We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?Samuel Beckett was always a man ahead of his time. He would have understood we…
Teaching Procedures
Doing the Right Thing? Toward a Postmodern Politics
We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know."-Archibald MacLeish (1928)Joel Handler would have had big problems with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, It is an auteurial tour-de-force by way of a postmodern fable for the ages that is self-consciously perplexing and inconclusive. While focusing on the competing imperatives of the pacificism of Martin Luther King's assimilationist politics and the violence of …
A Postmodern's Hart
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible
The Reasoning Game
Interpreting Censorship in Canada
Socially organized activity cannot occur without censorship. Going beyond ideological arguments, this collections of essays explores the extent of censorship in Canada today, the forms censorship takes, and the interests it serves
Going Places - Moving beyond Crisis
Everyone has heard the old story about the traveller and the old man. Lost in the desert, a traveller comes across an old man and asks him how to get to where she is supposed to be going. With a wry shake of head, the old man tells the hapless traveller that 'you can't get there from here.' The contemporary progress of much legal theory is like that. Traditional legal scholars seek out ever more inventive routes to reach jurisprudence's promised …
Playing with Law and Politics
The Companies We Keep
Democracy and Constitutional Change
The relationship between democracy and constitutions is a long and fractitious one. Those who lean towards the constitutionalist side have tended to perceive democracy as a threat to political order and the preservation of important values, whereas those who take a more democratist stance tend to treat constitutions as elite hindrances to popular rule as much as anything else. In this paper, we will give the constitutionalist thesis a broader the…
Is Killing People Right?
'Great cases' are those judicial decisions around which the common law pivots. In a sequel to the instant classic Is Eating People Wrong?, this book presents eight new great cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Written in a highly accessible yet rigorous style, it explores the social circumstances, institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) and ordinary people whose stories shaped the law. Across the courts' diverse and …
The Politics of Constitutional Law
After almost 25 years of jurisprudence under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many of the fears expressed by critics of the Charter have come to pass—judicial review under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms operates as an institutional device to curb more than advance democratic politics and to entrench more than challenge a conservative ideology. The Charter is indeed a potent political weapon, but one that has been and continues to …
Political science (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)