
The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law; GFPS Member
Areas of Specialization: Constitutional Law; Constitutional Theory; Constitutional Interpretation; Political Philosophy; Law and Philosophy; Theories of Democracy; Torts; Remedies
Professor Fleming received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University after earning his A.B. from University of Missouri. He practiced litigation at Cravath, Swaine & Moore for five years in New York City before becoming a law professor. During the 1999-2000 year, he was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics in the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions (now the Safra Center for Ethics). During the 2016-2017 year, he was a Visiting Research Scholar in the Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs.
Since coming to Boston University School of Law in 2007, Professor Fleming has organized conferences entitled The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century, Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin’s Forthcoming Book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do? A Symposium on Michael Sandel’s Recent Book, Originalism and Living Constitutionalism and On Constitutional Obligation and Disobedience. The papers from all of these conferences were published in Boston University Law Review.
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