James Fleming

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Publications

Goto earliest | 1990s | 2000s

Forthcoming

"Successful Failures of the American Constitution," in The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, S. Macedo and J. Tulis, eds., Princeton University Press (forthcoming). 

2009

"Natural Law: U.S. Law," in 4 The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History 217, Stanley N. Katz, ed., Oxford University Press (2009). 

"The Odyssey of Cass Sunstein," 43 Tulsa Law Review 843 (2009). 

"Ronald Dworkin," in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 178, Roger K. Newman, ed., Yale University Press (2009). 

"Toward a More Democratic Congress?" in Symposium The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the Twenty-First Century, 89 Boston University Law Review 629 (2009). 

2008

American Constitutional Interpretation, with W. F. Murphy, S. A. Barber, & S. Macedo, 4th ed., Foundation Press (2008). 

"Rewriting Brown, Resurrecting Plessy," 52 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1141 (2008). 

2007

"The Balkanization of Originalism," 66 Maryland Law Review 10 (2007). 

Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions, with Sotirios A. Barber, Oxford University Press (2007). 

"The Incredible Shrinking Constitutional Theory: From the Partial Constitution to the Minimal Constitution," 75 Fordham Law Review 2885 (2007). 

"Rights, Responsibilities, and Reflections Upon the Sanctity of Life," with Benjamin C. Zipursky, in Ronald Dworkin 109, Arthur Ripstein, ed., Cambridge University Press (2007). 

2006

"The New Constitutional Order and the Heartening of Conservative Constitutional Aspirations," 75 Fordham Law Review 537 (2006). 

"The Place of History and Philosophy in the Moral Reading of the American Constitution," in Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin 23, Scott Hershovitz, ed., Oxford University Press (2006). 

Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy, University of Chicago Press (2006). 

"'There Is Only One Equal Protection Clause': An Appreciation of Justice Stevens's Equal Protection Jurisprudence," 74 Fordham Law Review 2301 (2006). 

2005

"Constitutionalism, Judicial Review, and Progressive Change," with Linda C. McClain, review of Ran Hirschl, Towards Juristocracy, Harvard University Press (2004), 84 Texas Law Review 443 (2005). 

"Judicial Review Without Judicial Supremacy: Taking the Constitution Seriously Outside the Courts," 73 Fordham Law Review 1377 (2005). 

"War, Crisis, and the Constitution," with Sotirios A. Barber, in The Constitution in Wartime 232, Mark Tushnet, ed., Duke University Press (2005). 

2004

"Lawrence's Republic," 39 Tulsa Law Review 563 (2004). 

"Securing Deliberative Democracy," 72 Fordham Law Review 1435 (2004). 

2003

American Constitutional Interpretation, with W. F. Murphy, S. A. Barber, & S. Macedo, 3d ed., Foundation Press (2003). 

"The Missing Selves in Constitutional Self-Government," 71 Fordham Law Review 1789 (2003). 

2002

"The Lawyer as Citizen," 70 Fordham Law Review 1699 (2002). 

2001

"Fidelity to Natural Law and Natural Rights in Constitutional Interpretation," 69 Fordham Law Review 2285 (2001). Also in R. P. George, The Clash of Orthodoxies 183, ISI Press, 2001 and in Natural Law: The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, R. P. George, ed., Ashgate, 2003. 

"A Further Comment on Robert P. George's 'Natural Law‘," 70 Fordham Law Review 255 (2001). 

"The Natural Rights-Based Justification for Judicial Review," 69 Fordham Law Review 2119 (2001). 

2000

"The Canon and the Constitution Outside the Courts," with Sotirios A. Barber, 17 Constitutional Commentary 267 (2000). 

"The Constitution Outside the Courts," 86 Cornell Law Review 215 (2000). 

"Foreword," with Linda C. McClain, in Symposium on Legal and Constitutional Implications of the Calls to Revive Civil Society, 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 289 (2000). 

"The Parsimony of Libertarianism," 17 Constitutional Commentary 171 (2000). 

"Some Questions for Civil Society-Revivalists," with Linda C. McClain, in Symposium on Legal and Constitutional Implications of the Calls to Revive Civil Society, 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 301 (2000). 

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1999

"Fidelity, Basic Liberties, and the Specter of Lochner," 41 William & Mary Law Review 147 (1999). 

1998

"Constitutional Tragedy in Dying: Or Whose Tragedy Is It, Anyway?" in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies 162, W. N. Eskridge, Jr. & S. Levinson, eds., New York University Press (1998). 

"The Right to Privacy in Sandel's Procedural Republic," with Linda C. McClain, in Debating Democracy's Discontent: Essays on American Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy 248, A. L. Allen & M. C. Regan, Jr., eds., Oxford University Press (1998). 

"We the Unconventional American People," 65 University of Chicago Law Review 1513 (1998). 

1997

"Constitutional Tragedy in Dying: Responses to Some Common Arguments Against the Constitutional Right to Die," 24 Fordham Urban Law Journal 881 (1997). 

"Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution," 65 Fordham Law Review 1335 (1997). 

"In Search of a Substantive Republic," with Linda C. McClain, review of Michael J. Sandel, Democracy's Discontent, Harvard University Press (1996) and Cass R. Sunstein, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Oxford University Press (1996), 76 Texas Law Review 509 (1997). 

"Original Meaning Without Originalism," 85 Georgetown Law Journal 1849 (1997). 

1995

"Securing Deliberative Autonomy," 48 Stanford Law Review 1 (1995). 

1994

"We the Exceptional American People," 11 Constitutional Commentary 355 (1994). Reprinted in Constitutional Politics: Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change 91, S. A. Barber & R. P. George, eds., Princeton University Press (2001). 

1993

"Constructing the Substantive Constitution," 72 Texas Law Review 211 (1993). 

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1982

"A Critique of John Hart Ely's Quest for the Ultimate Constitutional Interpretivism of Representative Democracy," 80 Michigan Law Review 634 (1982). 

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