Her scholarship includes “The Borrower’s Tale: A History of Poor Debtors in Lochner Era New York City,” published in the Law & History Review in 2012. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Fleming practiced as a staff attorney for South Brooklyn Legal Services, representing low-income homeowners facing foreclosure, and taught at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow. She received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.