Porcher L. Taylor III, J.D.
Associate Professor, School of Continuing Studies
(804) 289-8404
ptaylor@richmond.edu
Topics: Business Ethics Lessons from National Security Policy Successes and Failures, Satellite Diplomacy, National Security Policy, Paralegal Studies
Taylor is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received a J.D. degree from the University of Florida College of Law. His articles have been published in Columbia Science and Technology Law Review and Accounting Horizons (a double-blind peer-review journal), among others. A recipient of the University’s Distinguished Educator Award for 2005–06, in recognition of excellence of teaching and learning, he has also been selected twice for inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers: The Best Teachers in America Selected by the Best Students (1998 and 2005).
Since 1997, Taylor is the only professor at the University to have taught courses in all five of the University schools, a total of 15 different credit courses. He developed and taught national security law in the School of Law, and has taught business ethics and leadership in the M.B.A. program and teaches business ethics in the undergraduate program in the University’s Robins School of Business. He is the program director of the paralegal studies program in the University's School of Continuing Studies, where he teaches several courses.
His views on corporate governance reform have appeared in The Washington Post. As a freelance writer for the commentary page of The Washington Times, he has published six op-ed articles on national security issues. For five years Taylor was a senior associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a prominent and influential nonprofit public policy research institution in Washington, D.C. Taylor served in the Army JAG Corps for nearly five years and practiced law for nearly seven years as a litigation associate with “one of Florida’s largest and most prominent,” full-service (primarily corporate) law firms. He is a member of the Virginia, Florida and District of Columbia bars.
Taylor has given two invited paper presentations at international intelligence conferences in Ottawa, Canada. The conferences were sponsored by the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.
For more information on Taylor, please visit the Richmond Research Institute.