Lecture on Law and Society: Changing the Law by Changing the Lawyers at Ferguson Library

James Forman Jr., the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will present Changing the Law by Changing the Lawyers. 

Can the shape of what lawyers do in our society be reformed by changing the characteristics of who succeeds in gaining admission to law school? Each year the Howard C. Kaplan Memorial Lecture examines the ways in which law is being used to accomplish social change. This year it will highlight one of the most innovative among them. Professor Forman will be accompanied by Natalie Smith and Christian Aviles, two former participants of the Access to Law School program.

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Forman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author with an interest in the consequences of mass incarceration. He is also the founder of the innovative Access to law Program, which has mentored first generation, low-income, minority candidates, many of whom are social activists and some of whom are formerly incarcerated, for admission to law schools. The program has had some extraordinary successes.

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