Jurisprudence is the theory or philosophy of law.

James E. Fleming

James E. Fleming writes in constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author or co-author of five scholarly books and is working on a sixth: “What Shall Be Orthodox” in Polarized Times (with Linda C. McClain, Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law) is Fleming’s and McClain’s current book-in-progress. The […]

Wendy J. Gordon

Wendy J. Gordon has taught at Boston University since 1993, having taught at Rutgers, Georgetown, University of Michigan and other schools before arriving here. Her scholarship utilizes economics as well as ethics and analytic philosophy to understand copyright, trademark, and related forms of intellectual property. She is probably best known for her analyses of copyright’s “fair […]

Steven Arrigg Koh

Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in criminal law, constitutional law, and international law. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges theory and practice, drawing on sociological frameworks to deepen institutionally grounded analyses of U.S. federal and international legal systems. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, Cornell Law Review, Washington University Law […]

Jessica Silbey

Jessica Silbey teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, constitutional law, and law and the humanities. In addition to a law degree, she has a PhD in comparative literature and draws on her studies of literature and film to better account for law’s force, both its effectiveness and failing as socio-political regulation. In […]

Robert D. Sloane

After receiving his JD in 2000, Professor Robert D. Sloane worked for the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (now known as Tibet Justice Center) under the auspices of Yale Law School’s Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights. He led fact-finding missions to Nepal, India, and Tibet; wrote submissions for the UN Commission […]

Robert L. Tsai

Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Memorial Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, presidential leadership, and individual rights. Professor Tsai has been named a ’24-’25 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, where […]