James Forman, Jr.
Biography
James Forman is a former public defender and current Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Forman is an educator of criminal procedure and criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile justice, and education law and policy, with particular interest interest in issues of race in schools and legal institutions.
Articles & Media
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
"Racial Critiques of the New Jim Crow," New York University Law Review 87 (2012): 101-148.
"The Black Poor, Black Elites, and America's Prisons." Cardoza Law Review 32, no. 3 (2011): 791-806.
"Juries and Race in the Nineteenth Century." The Yale Law Journal 113 (2004): 895-938.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
"The Secret History of School Choice: How Progressives Got There First," The Georgetown Law Journal 93 (2005): 1287-1319.