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 |
Institutions |
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]