Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Princeton University
Robert George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, the Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and a member of President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics. He holds a masters degree in theology, a law degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Oxford. Among his interests are theories of law, natural law theories, constitutional law and theory, and problems of religion and politics. He is the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality; and In Defense of Natural Law and the editor of Natural Law Theory; Natural Law, Liberalism and Morality; and The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism. He has also published articles in the areas of jurisprudence and constitutional law. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence and the board of directors of the Philosophy Education Society. He has received a research fellowship from the Howard Foundation and a Judicial Fellowship from the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a former presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Among Professor George's many honors are the Stanley Kelley Teaching Award at Princeton, the 1999 Justice David W. Peck Medal for Eminence in Law, and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.
