James Forman Jr.
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 co-founder of the Maya Angelou School in Washington, D.C.
James Forman | |
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| Born | James Robert Lumumba Forman June 22, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
| Notable work | Locking Up Our Own (2017) |
| Spouse |
Ify Nwokoye (m. 2005) |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Constitutional law |
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In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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