Darren Hutchinson
Professor of Law
Office: Room 342
Phone: 202-274-4048
E-mail: dhutchinson@wcl.american.edu
Darren Hutchinson joined the faculty in 2003, and was appointed full professor in 2005. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, and Equal Protection Theory and equitable remedies. Before joining the faculty at WCL, Professor Hutchinson was an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University School of Law, and prior to law teaching, Professor Hutchinson practiced commercial litigation at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in New York City. He also clerked for the late Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe, a former United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York.
Currently Teaching
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Yale University School of Law 1993
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania 1990
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Selected Publications- Darren Hutchinson, The Majoritarian Difficulty: Affirmative Action, Sodomy, and Supreme Court Politics, 23 L. & Inequal. 1 (2005).
- Darren Hutchinson, Critical Race Histories: In and Out, 54 Am. U. L. Rev. (2004).
- Darren Hutchinson, 'Unexplainable on Grounds Other Than Race’: The Inversion of Privilege and Subordination in Equal Protection Jurisprudence, 2003 U. Ill. L. Rev. 615 (2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, New Complexity Theories: From Theoretical Innovation to Doctrinal Reform, 71 U. Mo. Kan. City L. Rev. 431 (2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, Factless Jurisprudence, 3 Colum. Hum. Rights L. Rev. 615 (2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, Dissecting Judicial Bias: The Need for a Structural Analysis, 10 Am. U. J. Gender, Soc. Policy & L. 13 (2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Progressive Race Blindness?: Individual Identity, Group Politics and Reform, 49 UCLA L. Rev. 1455 (2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Closet Case: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale and the Reinforcement of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Invisibility, 76 Tul. L. Rev. 81 (2001).
- Darren Hutchinson, Identity Crisis: ‘Intersectionality,’ ‘Multidimensionality,’ and the Development of An Adequate Theory of Subordination, 6 Mich. J. Race & L. 285 (2001).
- Darren Hutchinson, Gay Rights’ for ‘Gay Whites’?: Race, Sexual Identity, and Equal Protection Discourse, 85 Cornell L. Rev. 1358 (2000).
- Darren Hutchinson, Ignoring the Sexualization of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory, and Anti-Racist Politics, 47 Buff. L. Rev. 1 (1999) (reprinted in Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader (Nancy Dowd & Michelle Jacobs, eds., N.Y.U. Press,2002) & in Perspectives on Race and the Law: A Multiracial Approach (Timothy Davis & Kevin R. Johnson, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2001)). SSRN Link
- Darren Hutchinson, Beyond the Rhetoric of 'Dirty Laundry': Examining the Value of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Soc., 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 185 (1999).
- Darren Hutchinson, ‘Claiming’ and ‘Speaking’ Who We Are: Black Gays and Lesbians, Racial Politics, and the Million Man March, in Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, 28-45 (Devon Carbado, ed., N.Y.U. Press 1999).
- Darren Hutchinson, Ignoring the Sexualization of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory, and Anti-Racist Politics, 47 Buff. L. Rev. 1 (1999).
- Darren Hutchinson, Accommodating Outness: Hurley, Free Speech, and Gay and Lesbian Equality, 1 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 85 (1998).
- Darren Hutchinson, Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique of Gay and Lesbian Legal Theory and Political Discourse, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 561 (1997) (reprinted in Juan F. Perea, Richard Delgado, Angela P. Harris, and Stephanie M. Wildman, Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America 890-95 (West Group 2000) & Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge 325-33 (Richard Delgado ed., Temple U. Press 2d ed., 1999)).
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Selected Works in Progress
- Darren Hutchinson, Out Yet Unseen: Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of Law (N.Y.U. Press forthcoming).
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Selected Presentations
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Racial Exhaustion (Mid-Atlantic People of Color Law Teaching Conference, Am. U., Wash. College L., Spring 2006).
- Darren Hutchinson, Panelist, Living With Lawrence v. Texas (Georegtown University Law Center, Wash., D.C., 2005).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Litigating the Theory: The Uses of Critical Race Theory in Progressive Lawyering (Symposium sponsored by the Fordham Law Review: Critical Race Lawyering, Fall 2004).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, The Majoritarian Difficulty: Affirmative Action, Sodomy, and Supreme Court Politics (The Power to Elect: Race, Voting, and Campaigning in the 21st Century, University of Connecticut School of Law, Storrs, Conn., Spring 2004).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, The Doctrinal Significance of Critical Race Scholarship (Associaton of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Spring 2004).
- Darren Hutchinson, Panel, Legal Histories: Sex, Crime and Punishment (American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Fall 2003, Fall 2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, The Utility of Rights Analysis in the Context of Queer Family Law (City University of New York, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Fall 2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, The Politics of Hate (Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting, Spring 2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Overcoming the Divide Between Discursive and Material Impact Analyses of Race and (Critical Race Theory Workshop, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Spring 2003).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Factless Jurisprudence (Symposium sponsored by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review: Combating Subtle Discrimination in the Workplace, Fall 2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Panelist, Reparations: Lost Cause or Required Remedy (The Final Frontier: Ensuring Economic Equality in the New America, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Phila., Pa., Spring 2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Class-Based Equal Protection and the Racialized ‘Special Rights’ Discourse (Romer as Rorschach: The Future of Gay and Lesbian Rights, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Phila., Pa., Spring 2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Keynote Speaker, Dissecting Judicial Bias: The Need for a Structural Analysis (Homophobia in the Halls of Justice, American University Washington College Law, Wash., D.C., Spring 2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Unexplainable on Grounds Other Than Race’: The Inversion of Privilege and Subordination in Equal Protection Jurisprudence (University of Pennsylvania Law School Faculty Workshop, Phila., Pa., Spring 2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Class-Based Equal Protection and the Racialized ‘Special Rights’ Discourse (Race, Values, and the American Legal Process, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., Spring 2002).
- Darren Hutchinson, Speech, Class-Based Equal Protection and the Racialized ‘Special Rights’ Discourse (Multiracial Voices, Georgetown University Law Center, Wash., D.C., Spring 2002).
