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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour (born 1982) is an assistant professor of law and co-director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law School. [1] Born in Southern California, Hoag-Fordjour is a first-generation Tanzanian-American ( Chagga). [2] She received a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor degree from NYU School of Law, after which she spent more than a decade working as a civil rights and capital defense attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Office of the Federal Public Defender. Hoag-Fordjour was the inaugural practitioner-in-residence at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil & Political Rights at Columbia University and a lecturer at Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the late Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Hoag-Fordjour was elected a member of the American Law Institute in 2021. [1]
In July 2022, Hoag-Fordjour married Derek Fordjour at the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan. [3]
- ^ a b "Brooklyn Law School - Hoag-Fordjour Alexis". www.brooklaw.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Decaille, Nia (2022-07-22). "With Lots of Eye Contact, Something Clicked". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Decaille, Nia (2022-07-22). "With Lots of Eye Contact, Something Clicked". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour (born 1982) is an assistant professor of law and co-director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law School. [1] Born in Southern California, Hoag-Fordjour is a first-generation Tanzanian-American ( Chagga). [2] She received a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor degree from NYU School of Law, after which she spent more than a decade working as a civil rights and capital defense attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Office of the Federal Public Defender. Hoag-Fordjour was the inaugural practitioner-in-residence at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil & Political Rights at Columbia University and a lecturer at Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the late Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Hoag-Fordjour was elected a member of the American Law Institute in 2021. [1]
In July 2022, Hoag-Fordjour married Derek Fordjour at the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan. [3]
- ^ a b "Brooklyn Law School - Hoag-Fordjour Alexis". www.brooklaw.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Decaille, Nia (2022-07-22). "With Lots of Eye Contact, Something Clicked". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Decaille, Nia (2022-07-22). "With Lots of Eye Contact, Something Clicked". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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- 1982 births
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- 21st-century African-American academics
- 21st-century African-American lawyers
- 21st-century African-American women
- 21st-century American academics
- 21st-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American women lawyers
- African-American legal scholars
- American legal scholars
- American women legal scholars
- American people of Tanzanian descent
- Brooklyn Law School faculty
- California lawyers
- Members of the American Law Institute
- New York University School of Law alumni
- People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Yale University alumni
- United States legal academic stubs