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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James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967)[2] 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.
In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]
- ^ Forman, James (10 January 2018). "James Forman, Jr. About".
- ^ "James Forman 1967-". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023".