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James E. Fleming is an American lawyer and The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. 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.

Biography
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.

Scholarly books

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Honors and awards

 * Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs (2016-2017)
 * Faculty Fellow in Ethics, Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions (now the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics) (1999-2000)
 * Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution Governmental Studies Program (1981-1982)

Personal life
Fleming was born to Irene (née McNally), a home economics teacher, and Thomas E. Fleming, an agricultural conservation agent and farmer, in 1954. He grew up on a farm near Nevada, Missouri. Fleming married Linda C. McClain in 1992. McClain is the Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Fleming and McClain have co-authored several articles  and a book, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013). They have two daughters.