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Rees expresses optimism for the future of East Timor, a country that, he said, is "rising from the ashes." Rees said that he visited the island in 1996, while it was struggling with the issue of self-determination after some two decades of oppression by [[Indonesia]], and again in 2000, just after a vote for independence.​ East Timor was in 1996 "nothing but smoking ruins, but now there's a democratically elected president and parliament. Now there is hope," Rees predicted. The new Timorese government "is an experiment in an area of the world that for the most part has not embraced democratic forms of government. . . . It's like being at ground zero during the birth of a nation, like being in [[Boston]] in 1776," he said.​

Rees expresses optimism for the future of East Timor, a country that, he said, is "rising from the ashes." Rees said that he visited the island in 1996, while it was struggling with the issue of self-determination after some two decades of oppression by [[Indonesia]], and again in 2000, just after a vote for independence.​ East Timor was in 1996 "nothing but smoking ruins, but now there's a democratically elected president and parliament. Now there is hope," Rees predicted. The new Timorese government "is an experiment in an area of the world that for the most part has not embraced democratic forms of government. . . . It's like being at ground zero during the birth of a nation, like being in [[Boston]] in 1776," he said.​

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Prior to his move to Washington in 1986, Rees had served for seven years as an assistant professor at the [[University of Texas Law School]] in [[Austin]]. He wrote numerous law review articles, one of which declared the 1979 congressional vote to extend ratification of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] for three additional years to be unconstitutional. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4266&=&context=lalrev&=&sei-redir=1&referer=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bing.com%252Fsearch%253Fq%253Dgrover%252Brees%25252c%252Biii%2526qs%253DPF%2526cvid%253Dddce9576c371498cbcb8de94ba9c3a62%2526cc%253DUS%2526setlang%253Den-US%2526first%253D7%2526FORM%253DPERE#search=%22grover%20rees%2C%20iii%22|title=Rescinding Ratification of Proposed Constitutional Amendments - A Question for the Court|publisher=''Louisiana Law Review,'' Vol. 37 No. 4|author=Grover Rees, III|date=Spring 1977|accessdate=May 14, 2020}}</ref>In that the ERA was not added to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], the [[United States Supreme Court]] never ruled on the constitutionality of the extension. Reese said that many judges insert their personal legal and political views in their decisions.​<ref name=fedso>{{cite web|url=https://fedsoc.org/contributors/grover-rees|title=Hon. Grover Joseph Rees, III|publisher=[[The Federalist Society]]|accessdate=May 14, 2020}}</ref>

Prior to his move to Washington in 1986, Rees had served for seven years as an assistant professor at the [[University of Texas Law School]] in [[Austin]]. He wrote numerous law review articles, one of which declared the 1979 congressional vote to extend ratification of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] for three additional years to be unconstitutional. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4266&=&context=lalrev&=&sei-redir=1&referer=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bing.com%252Fsearch%253Fq%253Dgrover%252Brees%25252c%252Biii%2526qs%253DPF%2526cvid%253Dddce9576c371498cbcb8de94ba9c3a62%2526cc%253DUS%2526setlang%253Den-US%2526first%253D7%2526FORM%253DPERE#search=%22grover%20rees%2C%20iii%22|title=Rescinding Ratification of Proposed Constitutional Amendments - A Question for the Court|publisher=''Louisiana Law Review,'' Vol. 37 No. 4|author=Grover Rees, III|date=Spring 1977|accessdate=May 14, 2020}}</ref>In that the ERA was not added to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], the [[United States Supreme Court]] never ruled on the constitutionality of the extension.

often insert their personal legal and political views in the decisions.​<ref name=fedso>{{cite web|url=https://fedsoc.org/contributors/grover-rees|title=Hon. Grover Joseph Rees, III|publisher=[[The Federalist Society]]|accessdate=May 14, 2020}}</ref>

In another law article, Rees argued for traditional constitutional law, rather than judge-made law in which the jurists insert their personal legal and political views into their decisions.<ref name=fedso/>

In another law article, Rees argued for traditional constitutional law, rather than judge-made law in which the jurists insert their personal legal and political views into their decisions.<ref name=fedso/>