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Lecture is sponsored by the Policy Studies program
Stuart Taylor, Jr., will present a lecture entitled “The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Window into the Shameful Bias and Dishonesty of Many Professors and Journalists” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, room 104.
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. The lecture, which is sponsored by the Policy Studies program, is free and open to the public.
In the lecture, Taylor will discuss the case of the Duke Lacrosse players who were wrongfully indicted for raping a black stripper in 2006. He will particularly touch upon the ways that journalists and professors at Duke University attacked and accused the team.
Taylor is the co-author of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case, along with K.C. Johnson, professor of history at Brooklyn College. The book was published in September 2007.
Taylor is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, as well as a columnist for the National Journal and a contributing editor at Newsweek.
He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1977 with his juris doctor. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1970.