Of Counsel and Senior Fellow
Stuart Taylor, Jr. is an author and freelance journalist focusing on legal and policy issues including unfairness and excessive punishment in the criminal justice system. He has coauthored three critically acclaimed books and has written since 1980 for leading publications includingThe New York Times, American Lawyer Media, National Journal, Newsweek, RealClearPolitics, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has been interviewed on all major broadcast networks and has won numerous journalism honors.
In 2017, KC Johnson and Taylor wrote The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities. In 2012, Richard Sander and Taylor wrote Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It. In 2007, Taylor and Johnson wrote Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Fraud.
Taylor graduated from Princeton in 1970 and Harvard Law School in 1977. He practiced at a Washington, D.C law firm from 1977-1980.