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James Forman Jr. Former public defender James Forman Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. Forman graduated from Atlanta’s Roosevelt High School, Brown University, and Yale Law School. He worked as a law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor of Law, Yale Law School. A professor at Yale Law School, his alma mater, James Forman was a law clerk early in his career for Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, he joined the Public Defender Service for the ...
James Forman, Jr. Five years ago, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Cleveland program that provided school vouchers to low-income parents seeking private school alternatives for their children. Zelman was heralded as of great historical significance when it was decided. Yet, in the years since
The Access to Law School Program at Yale Law School is an innovative law school pipeline program designed for people from the New Haven area who are first generation, low-income, formerly incarcerated, racial minorities in the U.S., or members of another group that is underrepresented in the law. The Program invests in a class of up to twenty ...
Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. In "Locking Up Our Own," he seeks to understand why.
Oct 16, 2020 · So we talked to James Forman Jr., a professor at Yale Law School and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, to help us understand the ...
Apr 10, 2019 · April 10, 2019. James Forman Jr. James Forman Jr., recently appointed as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and policy, juvenile justice, and education law and policy. Forman’s particular interests are schools, prisons, and police, and those institutions’ race and class dimensions.
