James Phillips is an assistant professor of law at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law where he teaches courses in civil procedure, constitutional law, advanced constitutional law (law and religion), professional responsibility, and family law. His research topics include constitutional law and interpretation, law and religion, statutory interpretation, judicial behavior, and law and corpus linguistics. He designed and supervised the initial stages of the creation of the Corpus of Founding-Era American English (COFEA) and is one of the pioneers of applying corpus linguistics to legal interpretation.
