BG Shane Reeves

BRIG GEN Shane Reeves serves as the 15th dean of the Academic Board. He holds a Master of Laws in military law from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, a Juris Doctor from the College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy (USMA). He is admitted to practice law before the Virginia State Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S. Supreme Court.

BG Reeves commissioned in 1996 from USMA and served seven years as an armor officer in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Irwin, California. After attending law school in 2003, he transitioned into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. As a judge advocate, he served in several legal positions, including chief of legal assistance at Fort Riley, Kansas; brigade judge advocate in the 1st Armored Division in Taji, Iraq; senior trial counsel for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley; professor of international and operational law at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia; and deputy staff judge advocate of Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.

BG Reeves taught for 10 years in USMA's law department, most recently serving as the head. He has taught and spoken on international law and the law of armed conflict. His recent speaking engagements include presenting at the 9th Quadrennial Federal Judges Association in Washington, D.C.; lecturing at Columbia Law School and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; and speaking in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel, as part of the Academic Exchange Program. He is also a founding member and director of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at West Point.

BG Reeves has written extensively on the law of armed conflict and national security issues. His articles have appeared in publications including Foreign Policy, Lawfare, Just Security and Articles of War. He has written more than 30 articles and book chapters in academic publications, including the Harvard International Review, Harvard National Security Journal, Texas Law Review, Marquette Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law and Berkeley Journal of International Law. Additionally, he served as co-editor-in-chief of the blog Articles of War, editor and contributing author to U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice, and managing editor of the Lieber Studies Series published by Oxford University Press.

He is married to Kimberly Reeves. They have called West Point home for more than 10 years, where they have raised their three children: Charlie, Samantha and Beth.