Pro­fes­sor Christo­pher M. Hut­ton


Christopher M. Hutton  is Chair Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the history and politics of Western linguistics; the nexus between linguistic theory and race theory; semiotics and integrational linguistics; as well as the intersection of linguistics, law and intellectual history.
Selected publications: Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of Volk. Cambridge 2005: Polity Press; Language, Meaning and the Law. Edinburgh 2009: Edinburgh University Press; Word Meaning and Legal Interpretation: An Introductory Guide. Basingstoke 2014: Palgrave MacMillan; Integrationism and the Self. Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals. London, New York 2019: Routledge.