James E. Fleming

The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law
Professor of Law
A.B., summa cum laude, Political Science, University of Missouri
J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University

Interests: constitutional law; constitutional theory; constitutional interpretation; political philosophy; law and philosophy; theories of democracy; torts; remedies

James E. Fleming, before joining the faculty of Boston University School of Law in Fall 2007, was the Leonard F. Manning Distinguished Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. He writes in constitutional law and constitutional theory and teaches courses in constitutional law, constitutional theory, torts and remedies. He is the author of Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy (University of Chicago Press, 2006), co-author of Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (Oxford University Press, 2007) (with Sotirios A. Barber of University of Notre Dame), and co-author of American Constitutional Interpretation (3d ed., Foundation Press, 2003) (with Walter F. Murphy and Stephen Macedo of Princeton University and Sotirios A. Barber). He is working on a book, Rights and Irresponsibility (with BU Law Professor Linda C. McClain), and completing the fourth edition of his co-authored casebook in constitutional law. He also has published numerous articles in law reviews and books, and he served for a number of years as the Faculty Moderator of Fordham Law Review.

Professor Fleming received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. During the 1999-2000 year, he was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics in the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions. He has organized or co-organized many conferences in constitutional theory, including Fidelity in Constitutional Theory, The Constitution and the Good Society, Rawls and the Law and A New Constitutional Order?, together with Theories of Constitutional Self-Government, Integrity in the Law and Theories of Taking the Constitution Seriously Outside the Courts, all published in Fordham Law Review. He also co-edited (with BU Law Professor Linda C. McClain) a symposium on Legal and Constitutional Implications of the Calls to Revive Civil Society, published in Chicago-Kent Law Review. In May 2007, Fordham Law Review published a symposium on Minimalism versus Perfectionism in Constitutional Theory, focusing on Professor Fleming’s book, Securing Constitutional Democracy, along with Cass R. Sunstein’s book, Radicals in Robes.