James E. Fleming
{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1954)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}{{cite web |title=Fleming, James E. |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/16226909/ |website=Virtual International Authority File |access-date=16 June 2021}}
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| education = {{unbulleted list|University of Missouri (BA)|Harvard University (JD)|Princeton University (MA, PhD)}}
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| thesis_title = Constitutional Constructivism
| thesis_url = https://philpapers.org/rec/FLECC
| thesis_year = 1988
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| doctoral_advisor = Walter F. Murphy
| academic_advisors = Sanford Levinson
| influences = {{hlist|Sandel|Rawls{{cite journal |last1=Sunstein |first1=Cass R. |author-link=Cass Sunstein |title=Response: Liberal Constitutionalism and Liberal Justice |journal=Texas Law Review |date=December 1993 |volume=72 |issue=2 |page=306 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/tlr72&i=340 |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2021}}|Ely{{rp|ix}}|Dworkin{{cite journal |last1=Sunstein |first1=Cass R. |author-link=Cass Sunstein |title=Second-Order Perfectionism |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=2007 |volume=75 |issue=6 |page=2872 |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4278&context=flr |access-date=22 June 2021}}}}
| workplaces = {{unbulleted list|Fordham University|Boston University|American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy}}
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Linda C. McClain|1992}}{{cite news |title=WEDDINGS; Linda McClain, James Fleming |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/28/style/weddings-linda-mcclain-james-fleming.html |access-date=16 June 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=28 June 1992}}
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| discipline = Constitutional theory
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James E. Fleming is an American legal scholar who serves as the Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/james-e-fleming/ |title=James E. Fleming |publisher=bu.edu |access-date=April 28, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://lapa.princeton.edu/people/james-fleming |title=James Fleming |publisher=princeton.edu |access-date=April 28, 2017 |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817050730/http://lapa.princeton.edu/people/james-fleming |url-status=dead }} He is a scholar in standard constitutional theory and constitutional interpretation,{{cite web |title=James E. Fleming |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BU9Rmm8AAAAJ |website=Google Scholar |access-date=16 June 2021}} with special attention to criticizing originalism and defending moral readings of the U.S. Constitution,{{cite journal |last1=Balkin |first1=Jack |title=History, Rights, and the Moral Reading |journal=Boston University Law Review |date=July 2016 |volume=96 |issue=4 |page=1433 |url=https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2016/10/6.-BALKIN.pdf |access-date=22 June 2021}} developing a civic liberalism concerned with protecting rights and instilling civic virtues,{{cite web |last1=Dorf |first1=Michael C. |title=Liberalism's Errant Theodicy |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256050428 |website=Research Gate|accessdate=17 June 2021}} and justifying rights to autonomy and equality as central to constitutional self-government.{{cite journal |last1=Kelbley |first1=Charles A. |title=Privacy, Minimalism, and Perfectionism |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=2007 |volume=76 |issue=6 |page=2953 |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4281&context=flr |access-date=22 June 2021}}
Early life and education
Fleming received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Missouri in 1977.{{cite web |title=Constitution Day Lecture at Missouri - James Fleming & Linda McClain |url=https://jackmillercenter.org/constitution-day-lecture-at-missouri-james-fleming-linda-mcclain/ |website=Jack Miller Center |date=12 August 2015 |access-date=16 June 2021}} He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985.{{cite web |title=James E. Fleming CV |url=https://www.bu.edu/law/files/2015/09/James-E.-Fleming.pdf |website=Boston University School of Law |access-date=17 June 2021}} At Harvard, he was a teaching fellow for Michael Sandel.{{cite journal |last1=Sandel |first1=Michael J. |title=The Order of the Coif Annual Lecture: The Constitution of the Procedural Republic: Liberal Rights and Civic Virtues |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=1997 |volume=66 |issue=1 |page=2 |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3384&context=flr |access-date=17 June 2021}} He then attended Princeton University, earning a master's degree and, in 1988, completed a Ph.D. in politics with the dissertation, "Constitutional Constructivism,"{{cite thesis |last=Fleming |first=James E. |title=Constitutional Constructivism |date=June 1988 |publisher=Princeton University |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303726694 |url-access=subscription |isbn=9781392488928|id={{ProQuest|303726694}} }} under the supervision of Walter F. Murphy{{cite journal |last1=Fleming |first1=James E. |title=An Appreciation of Walter F. Murphy |url=http://lawcourts.org/pubs/newsletter/spring10.pdf |journal=Law & Courts |volume=20 |issue=2 |access-date=16 June 2021 |page=18 |date=Spring 2010}} and Sanford Levinson.
In his dissertation, Fleming developed a constitutional constructivism analogous to John Rawls's political constructivism. Before becoming a law professor, Fleming was an attorney in the litigation department at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City from 1986 to 1991.
Academic career
Fleming taught at Fordham University School of Law from 1991 to 2007, and was appointed the Leonard F. Manning Distinguished Professor of Law in 2006.{{cite web |title=Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy, Author Biography |url=https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780226253435 |website=BiblioVault |access-date=17 June 2021}} He joined the faculty of Boston University School of Law in 2007 as The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar,{{cite web |title=James E. Fleming |url=https://www.bu.edu/prsocial/profile/james-e-fleming/ |website=Boston University Public Relations |access-date=17 June 2021}} and was appointed The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law in 2015.{{cite news |last1=Eckenroth |first1=Lauren |title=Professor James E. Fleming Appointed Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law |url=https://www.bu.edu/law/record/articles/2015/professor-james-e-fleming-appointed-honorable-paul-j-liacos-professor-of-law/ |access-date=17 June 2021 |work=The Record |publisher=Boston University School of Law}} He has served as Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at Boston University School of Law and is the Faculty Advisor for the Boston University Law Review.{{cite web |title=Boston University Law Review Masthead |url=https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/boston-university-law-review-masthead/ |website=Boston University Law Review |access-date=16 June 2021}}
At Fordham and Boston University, Fleming has organized, co-organized and published numerous conference volumes in constitutional theory and legal philosophy,{{cite journal |last1=Fleming |first1=James E. |title=Lawrence's Republic |journal=Tulsa Law Review |date=2004 |volume=39 |issue=3 |page=563 |url=https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2451&context=tlr |access-date=16 June 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Fleming |first1=James E. |title=Securing Deliberative Democracy |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=2004 |volume=72 |issue=5 |page=1435 |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3960&context=flr |access-date=16 June 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Hevert |first1=Matthew T. |last2=Schulke |first2=Daniel F. |title=Foreword: Symposium: America's Political Dysfunction: Constitutional Connections, Causes, and Cures |journal=Boston University Law Review |date=May 2014 |volume=94 |issue=3 |page=578 |url=https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2014/08/EDITORS-FOREWORDDYSFUNCTION.pdf |access-date=22 June 2021}}{{cite journal |journal=Fordham Law Review |title=Symposium: A New Constitutional Order?|date=November 2006 |volume=75 |issue=2 |url=http://fordhamlawreview.org/issuescategory/november-2006-vol-75-no-2/ |access-date=21 June 2021}}{{cite journal |title=Foreword: Symposium: Fidelity in Constitutional Theory |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=1997 |volume=65 |issue=4 |page=1248 |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3327&context=flr |access-date=21 June 2021}} including volumes on the work of John Rawls{{cite journal |last1=Treanor |first1=William Michael |title=Introduction: Rawls and the Law |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=April 2004 |volume=72 |issue=5 |page=1385 |url=http://fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/pdfs/Vol_72/Treanor_April.pdf |access-date=21 June 2021}} and Ronald Dworkin.{{cite journal |last1=Kitchell |first1=Sarah J. |last2=Sefal |first2=Joshua M.D. |title=Foreword: Symposium: Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin's Forthcoming Book |journal=Boston University Law Review |date=April 2010 |volume=90 |issue=2 |page=467 |url=https://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/bulr/documents/editorsforeword.pdf |access-date=21 June 2021}}
Fleming was the Editor of Nomos, the annual book of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.{{cite web |title=Nomos |url=https://www.political-theory.org/nomos |website=The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy |access-date=22 June 2021}} In that capacity, he published four interdisciplinary volumes with New York University Press: Nomos L: Getting to the Rule of Law (2011);{{cite web |title=Getting to the rule of law |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2011012528 |website=Library of Congress Catalog |access-date=21 June 2021}} Nomos LII: Evolution and Morality (with Sanford Levinson) (2012);{{cite web |title=Evolution and morality |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2012010673 |website=Library of Congress Catalog |access-date=21 June 2021}} Nomos LIII: Passions and Emotions (2013);{{cite web |title=Passions and emotions |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2012024878 |website=Library of Congress Catalog |access-date=21 June 2021}} and Nomos LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity (with Jacob T. Levy) (2014).{{cite web |title=Federalism and subsidiarity |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2014002559 |website=Library of Congress Catalog |access-date=21 June 2021}} He has also served as the society's president and as of June 2021, is the Secretary-Treasurer.{{cite web |title=Current Officers |url=https://www.political-theory.org/current-officers |website=The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy |access-date=21 June 2021}}
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External links
- [https://www.bu.edu/law/files/2015/09/James-E.-Fleming.pdf Curriculum Vitae]
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