W. Taylor Reveley, III

Representative Professional Activities & 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.