{"id":8687,"date":"2020-10-26T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8687"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:50:51","slug":"james-e-fleming","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/james-e-fleming\/","title":{"rendered":"James E. Fleming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Areas of Specialization:<\/strong><b> <\/b><span>Constitutional\u00a0Law; Constitutional Theory; Constitutional Interpretation; Political Philosophy; Law and Philosophy; Theories of Democracy; Torts; Remedies<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor Fleming received his J.D.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>magna cum laude<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University after earning his A.B. from University of Missouri. He practiced litigation at Cravath, Swaine &amp; Moore for five years in New York City before becoming a law professor. During the 1999-2000 year, he was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics in the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions (now the Safra Center for Ethics). During the 2016-2017 year, he was a Visiting Research Scholar in the Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Since coming to Boston University School of Law in 2007, Professor Fleming has organized conferences entitled<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century, Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin\u2019s Forthcoming Book, Justice: What\u2019s the Right Thing To Do? A Symposium on Michael Sandel\u2019s Recent Book, Originalism<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and<em><span>\u00a0<\/span>Living Constitutionalism and On Constitutional Obligation and Disobedience<\/em>. The papers from all of these conferences were published in\u00a0<em>Boston University Law Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before joining the faculty of Boston University School of Law, Fleming was the Leonard F. Manning Distinguished Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. While at Fordham, he organized or co-organized many conferences in constitutional theory, including<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Fidelity in Constitutional Theory, The Constitution and the Good Society, Rawls<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and<em><span>\u00a0<\/span>the Law and A New Constitutional Order?<\/em>, together with<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Theories of Constitutional Self-Government, Integrity in the Law<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Theories of Taking the Constitution Seriously Outside the Courts<\/em>, all published in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Fordham Law Review<\/em>. He also co-edited (with BU Law Professor Linda C. McClain) a symposium on<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Legal and Constitutional Implications of the Calls to Revive Civil Society<\/em>, published in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Chicago-Kent Law Review<\/em>. In 2007,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Fordham Law Review<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>published a symposium on<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Minimalism versus Perfectionism in Constitutional Theory<\/em>, focusing on Professor Fleming\u2019s book,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Securing Constitutional Democracy<\/em>, along with Cass R. Sunstein\u2019s book,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Radicals in Robes<\/em>. The papers from all of these conferences were published in\u00a0<em>Fordham Law Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18783,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8687\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}