James E. Fleming

James E. Fleming writes in constitutional law and constitutional theory and teaches courses in constitutional law, constitutional theory, and torts. He is the author or co-author of five books and also is to be co-author of the fifth edition of Tort and Accident Law: Cases and Materials (with Robert E. Keeton and Lewis D. Sargentich of Harvard Law School and Gregory C. Keating of University of Southern California Law School), the casebook he uses in teaching Torts.From 2008 to 2011, Professor Fleming was Editor of NOMOS, the annual book of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He has also served as BU Law School’s Associate Dean for Intellectual Life.

Professor Fleming received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. He practiced litigation at Cravath, Swaine & Moore 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.

Since coming to Boston University School of Law in 2007, Professor Fleming has organized conferences entitled The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century, Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin’s Forthcoming Book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do? A Symposium on Michael Sandel’s Recent Book, Originalism and Living Constitutionalism and On Constitutional Obligation and Disobedience. He is organizing a major conference tentatively entitled “America’s Political Dysfunction: Constitutional Connections, Causes, and Cures,” to be held at Boston University in November 2013. All have been (or will be) published in Boston University Law Review. He is Faculty Advisor to Boston University Law Review.

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 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 2007, Fordham Law Review published a symposium on Minimalism versus Perfectionism in Constitutional Theory.