His 2017, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, explores the complicated and often conflicting attitudes towards crime and punishment in African-American communities. His particular interests are schools, prisons, and police. James teaches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure and criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile justice, and education law and policy. In 2007 Maya Angelou took over the school inside D.C.’s juvenile prison and, according to the court monitor overseeing D.C.’s juvenile system, has turned it into"an extraordinary educational program." In 1997, along with David Domenici, he started the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, which combines rigorous education, job training, counseling, mental health services, life skills, and dormitory living for school dropouts and youth who have previously been incarcerated.
He previously taught at Georgetown Law from 2003 to 2011, and from 1994 to 2000, he worked for the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where he represented juveniles and adults in serious felony cases. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of the Atlanta Public Schools, Brown University and Yale Law School, and was a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the U.S. is a professor of law at Yale Law School.
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