Tal Fortgang is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His interests include law, political theory, religion, ideology, and culture, and his popular writings have appeared in City Journal, Commentary, National Affairs, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He has also published legal scholarship in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and the Texas Review of Law & Politics.

Tal holds an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University, where he graduated cum laude, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.