Howard Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society: Dismantling Mass Incarceration

Dr. James Forman Jr., the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will discuss the book Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change, a vital reader on ending mass incarceration featuring advocates, experts and formerly incarcerated people. It was co-edited by Forman, Premal Dharia and Mario Hawilo.

This lecture is part of the annual Howard Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society.

Registration required.

Dr. James Forman’s scholarship focuses on schools, police and prisons. He is particularly interested in the race and class dimensions of those institutions. His first book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, was on many top 10 lists, including The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2017, and was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He attended public schools in Detroit and New York City before graduating from the Atlanta Public Schools. After attending Brown University and Yale Law School, he joined the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults charged with crimes.

Howard C. Kaplan, a native of the Bronx, NY, moved to Stamford as a graduate of Yale Law School to join Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin and Kuriansky, where he eventually became a partner and remained for his entire legal career. A pillar of the community, Kaplan also served on the Stamford Board of Representatives, and was a founding member of the Stamford Board of Ethics, president of the Stamford Child Care Center, and director and counsel to the Stamford Land Conservation Trust.

This lecture is supported by the Stamford law firm Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin and Kuriansky and the family of the late Howard Kaplan.