Professor wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize
Professor James Forman Jr. ’92JD is the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner in general nonfiction for his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. The book, which was also named one of the “10 Best of 2017” by the New York Times, explores the complex relationship between race, class, and the American criminal justice system in a new and original light. 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.
Law scholar awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law and founding director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, was selected as a member of the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Resnik is among a group of 31 extraordinary scholars and writers to receive the two-year grants that enable recipients to conduct sustained research and writing. She received this fellowship to write The Impermissible in Punishment: Whipping, Isolating, Disenfranchising—and Imprisoning, which will trace the history of prison reform and analyze the efforts of individuals who, despite horrid conditions of incarceration, insisted that they were entitled to law’s protection and succeeded in gaining recognition as rights holders.
Philosophical Society elects professor
Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS) in its 2018 class. Siegel is one of 35 new members elected in April at the society’s annual meeting. Siegel was elected as a member of the social sciences class. The APS is America’s oldest learned society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. The group’s mission is to promote knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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