Professor Alexis J. Hoag-Fordjour
New York, NY
Brooklyn Law School
Yale University, 2004
New York University School of Law, 2008
Alexis Hoag-Fordjour joined the faculty at Brooklyn Law in 2021, where she co-directs the Center for Criminal Justice and serves as a Dean's Research Scholar. She teaches and writes in criminal law and procedure, evidence, and carceral abolition. Professor Hoag-Fordjour's scholarship has appeared in the New York University Law Review (twice), Michigan Law Review, Harvard Law Review Blog, and other journals. She serves as a board member of the Death Penalty Information Center, is on the editorial board of the Amicus Journal, and co-chairs the capital punishment committee of the New York City Bar Association. Professor Hoag-Fordjour regularly provides on-air and in print analysis for CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets.
Prior to Brooklyn Law, Professor Hoag-Fordjour served as the inaugural practitioner-in-residence at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil & Political Rights at Columbia University, and as a lecturer at Columbia Law School. She spent more than a decade as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, primarily representing capitally convicted clients in federal post-conviction proceedings, with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the Office of the Federal Public Defender. She graduated from Yale University and NYU School of Law, where she was a Derrick Bell Public Interest Scholar. She served as a law clerk for the late Judge John T. Nixon of the United States District Court. In fall 2023, Professor Hoag-Fordjour will be visiting at Cornell Law School.
