Anthony C. Thompson

Anthony C. Thompson is a professor and faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University School of Law. He is the author of Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities and Dangerous Leaders, a co-author, with Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, and Bryan Stevenson, of A Perilous Path (The New Press), and editor of Raising the Bar: Diversifying Big Law (The New Press). He lives in New York.

News and Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Included in the “Spring 2018 Announcements: Politics and Current Events” feature

Kirkus Reviews

A probing, provocative conversation on the national narrative in the Trump era. . .

Bustle

Exactly the book we all need right now. A Perilous Path is a roundtable of four of the best civil rights minds in the country discussing their work, their lives, and the fight for justice that we need at this harrowing hour in U.S. history.

Books by Anthony C. Thompson

A Perilous Path
Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law

Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, Anthony C. Thompson

Raising the Bar
Diversifying Big Law

Debo P. Adegbile, Lisa Davis, Damaris Hernández, Ted Wells, Anthony C. Thompson