Talk:James E. Fleming

Additional content for lead and biography section
I am employed by Boston University and have a COI with this page. I would like to propose additions to this page:

1. In the current sentence, remove "focusing in constitutional law and U.S. Supreme Court, currently" and replace it with "and". 2. For source #2, add a ref name="Princeton Profile", so that it can be reused. 3. After the existing sentence add the following to the lead section:

His scholarship is in normative constitutional theory and constitutional interpretation, with special attention to criticizing originalism and defending moral readings of the U.S. Constitution, developing a civic liberalism concerned not only with protecting rights but also with inculcating civic virtues, and justifying rights to autonomy and equality as central to constitutional self-government.

4. Add an infobox:

5. Add short description: American law professor


 * ✅ Done. (Another editor already added the info box and part of the bio.) I will continue working on this request. Heartmusic678 (talk) 17:52, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

6. Add a Biography section with the following prose:

Fleming received an A.B. summa cum laude in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 1977. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1985. At Harvard, he studied with John Rawls and Frank Michelman and was a teaching fellow for Michael Sandel. In 1988, he completed a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation, "Constitutional Constructivism," under the supervision of Walter F. Murphy and Sanford Levinson. In his dissertation, Fleming developed a constitutional constructivism by analogy 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.

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. He joined the faculty of Boston University School of Law in 2007 as The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar and was appointed The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law in 2015. Fleming 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.

At Fordham and Boston University, Fleming has organized (or co-organized) and published numerous conference volumes in constitutional theory and legal philosophy,  including volumes on the work of John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin.

Fleming was the Editor of Nomos, the annual book of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. In that capacity, he published four interdisciplinary volumes with New York University Press: Nomos L: Getting to the Rule of Law (2011); Nomos LII: Evolution and Morality (with Sanford Levinson) (2012); Nomos LIII: Passions and Emotions (2013); and Nomos LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity (with Jacob T. Levy) (2014). He also has served as the Society's President and as of June 2021, is the Secretary-Treasurer.

Thank you for your consideration. JRobble (talk) 18:43, 22 June 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ Done. Thanks, Heartmusic678 (talk) 13:56, 9 August 2021 (UTC)