Alexis Hoag-Fordjour
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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour is an assistant professor and co-director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law School. She writes and teaches about criminal procedure, evidence, and abolition. Prior to Brooklyn Law, Hoag-Fordjour served as the inaugural practitioner-in-residence at the Eric H. Holder Jr Initiative for Civil & Political Rights at Columbia and a lecturer at Columbia Law. She spent over a decade as a racial justice and death penalty defense lawyer at the Federal Public Defender Office in Nashville, TN and at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund in New York. Hoag-Fordjour is a board member of the Death Penalty Information Center and the Eighth Amendment Project, and on the editorial board of the Amicus Journal, she also co-chairs the Capital Punishment Committee of the New York City Bar Association. A graduate of NYU Law and Yale College, Hoag-Fordjour clerked for the late Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. In 2021, she was elected to membership of the American Law Institute.
