James E. Fleming
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James E. Fleming | |
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.jpg) Fleming in 2012 | |
| Born | 1954 (age 70–71)[1] |
| Spouse | [2] |
| Children | 2[3] |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Constitutional Constructivism (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter F. Murphy |
| Other advisors | Sanford Levinson |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Constitutional theory |
| Institutions | |
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.[6][7] He is a scholar in standard constitutional theory and constitutional interpretation,[8] with special attention to criticizing originalism and defending moral readings of the U.S. Constitution,[9] developing a civic liberalism concerned with protecting rights and instilling civic virtues,[10] and justifying rights to autonomy and equality as central to constitutional self-government.[11]
Fleming received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Missouri in 1977.[12] He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985.[13] At Harvard, he was a teaching fellow for Michael Sandel.[14] He then attended Princeton University, earning a master's degree and, in 1988, completed a Ph.D. in politics with the dissertation,[7] "Constitutional Constructivism,"[15] under the supervision of Walter F. Murphy[16] and Sanford Levinson.
In his dissertation, Fleming developed a constitutional constructivism analogous to John Rawls's political constructivism.[15] 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.[13]
