James Forman Jr.
Autor(a) de Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
About the Author
James Forman Jr. was born on June 22, 1967. He graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School. He was a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court. Afterward, Forman worked for six mostrar mais years at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. In 1997, he and David Domenici started the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, an alternative school for school dropouts and youth who had previously been arrested. Forman taught at Georgetown Law from 2003 to 2011 and then joined the Yale Law School faculty. His first book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por James Forman Jr.
Associated Works
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Contribuidor — 838 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Forman, James Robert Lumumba
- Data de nascimento
- 1967-06-22
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Brown University (BA, 1988)
Yale Law School (1992) - Ocupações
- Professor, Yale University Law School
Lawyer - Relações
- Forman, James (father)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Book Award Finalist
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- 2
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- Membros
- 462
- Popularidade
- #53,212
- Avaliação
- 4.4
- Críticas
- 12
- ISBN
- 9