Eric is an associate lawyer in the Winnipeg office and maintains a broad litigation practice.
Eric completed his articles as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and will be clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Honourable Justice Suzanne Côté in 2025.
He obtained his Juris Doctor summa cum laude from the University of Ottawa in 2023, where he was a teaching and research assistant and executive editor of the Ottawa Law Review. He also worked at Smart Prosperity Institute assessing forest carbon offset markets, protections for endangered species and the legal and policy frameworks for creating Indigenous protected and conserved areas.
Eric obtained a Master’s degree in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. He then went on to work as an analyst at the Department of Foreign Affairs on Canada’s Middle East Relations Division focusing on Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Prior to obtaining his Master’s degree, Eric spent almost 10 years working in the area of Indigenous rights and social policy in Winnipeg and for Indigenous, local, provincial, national and international organizations and governments.
- Executive editor, Ottawa Law Review (2022-2023)
- Co-president, University of Ottawa Environmental Law Students’ Association (2022-2023)
- Law Society of Ontario Prize (2023)
- Deans Honour List (2021-2023)
- Aird & Berlis LLP Prize (2021)
- Robert Pitfield Entrance Scholarship (2020)
- Professional Training Scholarship (2020)
- Departmental Scholarship (2016-2018)
- Joubin-Selig Entrance Scholarship (2016)
- Domestic Entrance Scholarship (2016)
- Faculty of Arts Medal in the Honours Degree (2016)
- Faculty of Arts Dean’s Honour List (2013-2016)
- University of Manitoba Students Union Scholarship (2013-2016)
- Muriel and Murray Smith Fellowship (2015)
- The Honourable John Norquay Scholarship in Political Studies (2015)
- Sonia Roffman Isenberg Prize (2015)
- Senior Course Paper Prize (2015)
- Undergraduate Research Award (2015)
- Financial Aid & Awards Merit Scholarship (2014)
- Lambert Prize in Introductory Political Studies (2013)
- Fr. Edwin G. MacCormac Prize in Philosophy (2013)
- Betty Meltzer Memorial Prize (2013)
- Justice Peter Lauwers and Eric Fleming, “A Reflection on When and How Judicial Reasoning May Resort to Moral Philosophy” in Melanie Bueckert and Derek Ross (eds.), Equal and Inalienable and Rights: Essays on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2024)
- Eric Fleming (September 2022) “Canada and the SDGs: The State of the Law” The Canadian Environmental Network
- Submission editing to: Wilton Littlechild and Elsa Stamatopoulou (2014) Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes. New York: Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights