Jody David Armour is an American academic. He is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the

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, where he specializes in race issues in legal decision-making.

Life and career

Armour came to study law after his father was set up and imprisoned when Armour was 8 years old. Armour graduated from

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and the

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. He also teaches torts, criminal law, and criminal procedure.

Selected publications

* ''N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law'', Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020. , * ''Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America'', New York University Press, 1997. ,

References

External links

Official websiteArticle in the USC Gould journal
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