James E. Fleming\u00a0writes in constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author or co-author of five scholarly books\u00a0and is working on a sixth.<\/p>\n
Professor Fleming is the co-author of two constitutional law textbooks:\u00a0American Constitutional Interpretation\u00a0(Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2019) (with Walter F. Murphy, Sotirios A. Barber, and Stephen Macedo) and\u00a0Gay Rights and the Constitution\u00a0(Foundation Press, 2016) (with Sotirios A. Barber, Stephen Macedo, and Linda C. McClain).
\nHe also is co-author of the fifth edition of\u00a0Tort and Accident Law: Cases and Materials\u00a0(West Academic, 2023) (with the late Robert E. Keeton and Lewis D. Sargentich of Harvard Law School, Gregory C. Keating of University of Southern California Law School, and Leonard J. Feldman of Seattle University School of Law).<\/p>\n
From 2008 to 2012, Professor Fleming was Editor of\u00a0NOMOS, the annual book of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. In that capacity, he edited or co-edited four books:
\n* Getting to the Rule of Law\u00a0(New York University Press, 2011)
\n* Evolution and Morality\u00a0(New York University Press, 2012) (with Sanford Levinson of University of Texas)
\n* Passions and Emotions\u00a0(New York University Press, 2013)
\n* Federalism and Subsidiarity\u00a0(New York University Press, 2014) (with Jacob Levy of McGill University)<\/p>\n
Professor Fleming received his JD\u00a0magna cum laude\u00a0from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Politics from Princeton University after earning his A.B.\u00a0summa cum laude\u00a0from University of Missouri. He practiced litigation at Cravath, Swaine & 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\u00a0Edmond J.\u00a0Safra 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
Since coming to Boston University School of Law in 2007, Professor Fleming has organized or co-organized a number of conferences in constitutional theory and legal and political philosophy, including\u00a0The 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\u00a0and\u00a0Living Constitutionalism; On Constitutional Obligation and Disobedience; America\u2019s Political Dysfunction: Constitutional Connections, Causes, and Cures;\u00a0and\u00a0A Symposium on Ronald Dworkin\u2019s Religion without God. The papers from all of these conferences were published in\u00a0Boston University Law Review.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Fidelity in Constitutional Theory; The Constitution and the Good Society; Rawls\u00a0and\u00a0the Law;\u00a0and\u00a0A New Constitutional Order?, together with\u00a0Theories of Constitutional Self-Government; Integrity in the Law;\u00a0and\u00a0Theories of Taking the Constitution Seriously Outside the Courts. In 2007,\u00a0Fordham Law Review\u00a0published a symposium on\u00a0Minimalism versus Perfectionism in Constitutional Theory, focusing on Professor Fleming\u2019s book,\u00a0Securing Constitutional Democracy, along with Cass R. Sunstein\u2019s book,\u00a0Radicals in Robes. The papers from all of these conferences were published in\u00a0Fordham Law Review.\u00a0Fleming also co-edited (with BU Law Professor Linda C. McClain) a symposium on\u00a0Legal and Constitutional Implications of the Calls to Revive Civil Society, published in\u00a0Chicago-Kent Law Review.<\/p>\n