Stuart Taylor Jr.

Stuart Taylor Jr. is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institute as well as a regular columnist for "National Journal" and a Contributing Editor at "Newsweek". 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 legal reporter for various newspapers.

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.

Mr. Taylor wrote a July 2008 Newsweek article which argued that American interrogators who have engaged in torture should be given a "pass," in the form of presidential pardon, in the hope of facilitating full disclosure of what interrogation methods were used. [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/145842 Stuart Taylor on Bush and Torture | Newsweek Politics | Newsweek.com ] ]

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* [http://www.brook.edu/scholars/staylor.htm Brookings Scholar Stuart Taylor Jr.] Professional biography.
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/stuart_jr_taylor/index.html Archive of articles written for The New York Times]
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/stuart_taylor Essays Written For The Atlantic]
* [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/jan-june99/impeach_2-10.html Investigating The Investigators] Panel discussion discuss investigations of involving former Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602271.html "Guilty in the Duke Case"] A column by Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson, "The Washington Post", September 7, 2007