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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 …

Senior Research Fellow In D.C. area for over 20 years, Althea Nagai, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity. She has conducted numerous statistical analyses on racial and ethnic preferences in higher education, including racial and ethnic preferences in undergraduate education at five public universities in Virginia, the University of Michigan, two Arizona universities, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two Ohio universities, and various law and medical schools. In addition, she has written two essays for CEO focusing on Asian Americans, “Too Many Asian Americans,” and “Harvard Investigates Harvard.” She has also has done work on other …

Senior Fellow Eastland is an accomplished journalist who was editor of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., before working in the Reagan administration as a speechwriter for Attorney General William French Smith and as director of public affairs for Attorney General Edwin Meese.  Eastland was later a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the editor of Forbes MediaCritic. In 2001, he became publisher of The Weekly Standard and, in 2013, an executive editor. He is now a contributing editor at the magazine.Eastland has published seven books, including two on race preferences, Counting by Race (1979) and Ending Affirmative Action (1996). “The Center has done …

CEO Board Member and Former President General Counsel 7700 Leesburg Pike, Suite 231Falls Church, Virginia 22043Tel: 703-442-0066Fax: 703-442-0449Email: RClegg@ceousa.orgRoger Clegg is President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. He focuses on legal issues arising from civil rights laws–including the regulatory impact on business and the problems in higher education created by affirmative action. A former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Clegg held the second highest positions in both the Civil Rights Division (1987-91) and in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (1991-93). He has held several other positions at the U.S. Justice Department, including …