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At the core of any
law school is its faculty.
BU Law professors are nationally acclaimed for their
teaching skills as well as their scholarship and are
frequently consulted for advice by both the public and
private sectors. We are proud to welcome the following
four members to our faculty: James E. Fleming, Linda
C. McClain, Kevin Outterson and Sean J. Kealy.
James E. Fleming Before joining BU Law’s
faculty in Fall 2007, James E. Fleming was the
Leonard F. Manning Distinguished Professor of Law
at Fordham University School of Law. He writes
on constitutional law and constitutional theory and
teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Constitutional
Theory, Torts and Remedies. He is the author
of Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of
Autonomy (University of Chicago Press, 2006),
co-author of Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic
Questions (Oxford University Press, 2007) (with
Sotirios A. Barber of University of Notre Dame),
and co-author of American Constitutional Interpretation
(3d ed., Foundation Press, 2003) (with Walter F.
Murphy and Stephen Macedo of Princeton University
and Sotirios A. Barber). He is working on a new
book, Rights and Irresponsibility (with Linda C.
McClain), and completing the fourth edition of
his co-authored casebook on constitutional law.
He also has published numerous articles in law
reviews and books, and he served for a number
of years as the faculty moderator of Fordham
Law Review.
Professor Fleming received his J.D. magna cum
laude from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in
Politics from Princeton University. During the
1999-2000 year, he was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics
at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and
the Professions. He has organized or co-organized
many conferences in constitutional theory, including
Fidelity in Constitutional Theory, The Constitution
and the Good Society, Rawls and the Law and A New
Constitutional Order as well as Theories of Constitutional
Self-Government, Integrity in the Law and Theories of
Taking the Constitution Seriously Outside the Courts, all
published in Fordham Law Review. He also co-edited
(with Linda C. McClain) a symposium on Legal and
Constitutional Implications of the Calls to Revive Civil
Society, published in Chicago-Kent Law Review. In May
2007, Fordham Law Review published a symposium
on Minimalism versus Perfectionism in Constitutional
Theory, focusing on Professor Fleming’s book, Securing
Constitutional Democracy, along with Cass R. Sunstein’s
book, Radicals in Robes.
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