Stuart S. Taylor, Jr.

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Stuart S. Taylor, Jr. is an author and freelance journalist focusing on legal and policy issues, National Journal contributing editor, Stanford Law School lecturer, (occasionally) practicing lawyer, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His current focus on constitutional law, media law, and the Supreme Court. | View Full Bio

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    How would a crackdown backfire? Because it would produce, immediately in Colorado, and eventually in other states, an atomized, anarchic state legalized but unregulated marijuana market that federal drug enforcers lack the manpower to contain and lack the legal power to force the states to contain.

    May 8, 2013, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., KCRW

  • Interview | NewTalk

    What is the Role of Courts in Making Social Policy?

    July 8, 2008

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Expertise

  • Constitutional law
  • international law
  • legal affairs
  • Supreme Court

Experience

Current Positions

  • Contributing Editor, National Journal

Past Positions

  • Senior Writer, American Lawyer Media (1989-1997)
  • McGraw Distinguished Lecturer in Writing, Princeton University (1988-1989)
  • Reporter and Supreme Court correspondent, New York Times (1980-1988)
  • Attorney, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (1978-1980)
  • Reporter, Baltimore Sun and Evening Sun (1971-1974)

Education

  • J.D. Harvard Law School, 1977
  • A.B., Princeton University, 1970

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