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James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America , which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction , and a ...
5 de abr. de 2024 · James Forman Jr. J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law. Education. J.D., Yale Law School, 1992. A.B., Brown University, 1988. Curriculum Vitae. Courses Taught. Criminal Law. Inside Out—Issues in Criminal Justice (joint seminar for YLS students and incarcerated men and women) Access to Law School.
James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.
11 de abr. de 2017 · By James Forman Jr. Illustrated. 306 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $27. James Forman Jr. divides his superb and shattering first book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in...
James Forman Jr. is a former public defender and the founder of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School. He teaches Constitutional Law and Race, Class, and Punishment at Yale Law School and has written a book about mass incarceration in America.
James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale Law School. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, numerous law reviews, and other publications. A former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he spent six years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., where he cofounded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School.
21 de may. de 2021 · The Ezra Klein Show. Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews James Forman Jr. Share full article. May 21, 2021. Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something...
