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Please join us for a small-group discussion on issues of mass incarceration with Professor James Forman, Jr.

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center and the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law.

Biography

James Forman Jr. is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a graduate of Atlanta’s Roosevelt High School, Brown University, and Yale Law School, and 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. Professor Forman teaches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure and criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile justice, and education law and policy. His particular interests are schools, prisons, and police, and those institutions’ race and class dimensions. With the support of the Open Society Foundations, Professor Forman is currently writing a book about African-American attitudes towards crime and punishment in the age of mass incarceration. Full Bio.