W. Taylor Reveley, III
President and John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence
Email: [[taylor]]
Office phone: (757) 221-1693
Office location: President's Office
Areas of Specialization
Administrative Law; Citizen Lawyers; Commercial Nuclear Power Law; Constitutional Law--War Powers; Law Firm Governance; Practice of Law
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Joined the faculty in 1998. Clerked for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court. Spent 13 months in 1972-73 as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (studying the war powers). Practiced law at Hunton & Williams for 28 years, serving as managing partner of the firm for nine years and head of its energy and telecommunications team. Helped create the Virginia State Bar's Section on the Education of Lawyers, chaired its board, and is now one of its governors.
Author of War Powers of the President and Congress: Who Holds the Arrows and Olive Branch? (University Press of Virginia, 1981), articles on the war powers in the Virginia Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, American Political Science Review and Columbia Law Review, and chapters on these powers in Law and Civil War in the Modern World and The Constitution and the Conduct of Foreign Policy.
Trustee emeritus of Princeton University; current trustee of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Virginia Historical Society, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Presbyterian Outlook Foundation, and St. Christopher's School; former trustee or director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Richmond Symphony, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation, New Covenant Trust Co., N.A., and Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education.
Scholarly Publications
Books
- War Powers of the President and Congress: Who Holds the Arrows and Olive Branch? (U. Va. Press 1981)
Articles
- William & Mary Law School Came First. Why Care?, 35 U. Tol. L. Rev. 185 (2003)
- Is the Republic Circling the Drain?, 96 Nw. L. Rev. 1579 (2002) (reviewing Philip K. Howard, The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom (2001))
- Cultural Musings of a Non-Traditional Dean, 31 U. Tol. L. Rev. 725 (2000)
- Edward Keyes' Undeclared War: Twilight Zone of Constitutional Power, 83 Colum. L. Rev. 2117 (1983)
- Lawrence R. Velvel's Undeclared War and Civil Disobedience: The American System in Crisis, 68 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 187 (1974)
- Constitutional Allocation of the War Powers Between the President and Congress: 1787-88, 15 Va. J. Int'l L. 73 (1974)
- Arthur J. Goldberg's Equal Justice: The Warren Era of the Supreme Court, 1973 U. Ill. L. F. 408.
- Presidential War-Making: Constitutional Prerogative or Usurpation?, 55 Va. L. Rev. 1243 (1969)
Book Chapters
- The Power to Make War, in The Constitution and the Conduct of Foreign Policy (Praeger 1976)
- Constitutional Aspects of United States Participation in Foreign Internal Conflicts, in Law and Civil War in the Modern World (Johns Hopkins U. Press 1974)
Other
- Foreword to Anne Hobson Freeman, The Style of a Law Firm: Eight Gentlemen from Virginia (Algonquin 1989)
