James Forman, Jr.
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James Forman, Jr., is a professor of law at Yale Law School. He has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, numerous law reviews, and other publications. A former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he spent six years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., where he cofounded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Locking Up Our Own and a coeditor of Dismantling Mass Incarceration.
