Stuart Taylor Jr. is a regular columnist for National Journal, a Contributing Editor at Newsweek and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Taylor has previously served as a Senior writer for American Lawyer Media, from 1989-1997, a lecturer at Princeton University for one year, a reporter and Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, an attorney at the D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, and as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun.
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.