Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Stuart Taylor Jr. is an American journalist. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and is a regular columnist for The National Journal, a Contributing Editor at Newsweek, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He comments on legal affairs and often focuses on the Supreme Court, appearing frequently in other publications such as The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal.
Career
Taylor served as a senior writer for American Lawyer Media between 1989 and 1997, lectured at Princeton University for one year, was a reporter and Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times and member of the D.C. law firm of WilmerHale, and also wrote for the Baltimore Sun.
Literary work
Taylor has written about “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,”[1] Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign,[2] and the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case.[3] He has argued for reform of the Voting Rights Act,[4] has defended Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito from charges of being a “far-right activist,”[5] and has written and commented about the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court[6] and about Obamacare.,[7][8]
Taylor wrote in The Atlantic in 2005 that despite all the debates over the Supreme Court's ideological, ethnic, and gender “balance,” “there is likely to be little discussion about the greatest imbalance—the one in the collective real-world experience of its justices. The Court's steady homogenization by professional background has gone largely unremarked.”[9] He wrote in The Atlantic in 2011 that prosecutors in the rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn't “have a viable criminal case,” but “the hotel maid should still get her day in civil court.”[10]
Duke lacrosse case
He is the co-author, with Professor K.C. Johnson of Brooklyn College, of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case (ISBN 0-312-36912-3). It was published in September 2007. In the book, Johnson and Taylor not only recount in detail the entire story of the Duke lacrosse case, but explore some of its lessons as regards, for example, the reliability of prosecutors, the trustworthiness of the media, and the role of extreme political ideology in the academy. The New York Times Sunday Book Review, referred to the book as a “riveting narrative” and stated that “Taylor and Johnson have made a gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused. They remind us of the importance of constitutional checks on prosecutorial abuse. And they emphasize the lesson that Duke callously advised its own students to ignore: if you’re unjustly suspected of any crime, immediately call the best lawyer you can afford.”[11]
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External links
- Stuart Taylor, Jr. Official Website Archive of Stuart's writings dating back to the early 1980s
- Brookings Scholar Stuart Taylor Jr. Professional biography.
- Archive of articles written for The New York Times
- Essays Written For The Atlantic
- Investigating The Investigators Panel discussion discuss investigations of involving former Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
- "Guilty in the Duke Case" with KC Johnson, The Washington Post, September 7, 2007
- Alan Dershowitz's five best books about important legal cases
- Appearances on C-SPAN
