Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
On Leave
244 Corwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Office Hours: On Leave
Phone: 609.258.3270
Fax: 609.258.1110
E-mail: rgeorge@princeton.edu
Specialization: Director, James Madison program; constitutional law, philosophy of law, political philosophy
Professor George has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Currently he serves on UNESCOâs World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis. Professor George is a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal and many other honors, including the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award from Princeton's Department of Politics. He holds honorary doctorates of law, ethics, science, letters, civil law, humane letters, and juridical science Professor George was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard University and the 2008 Judge Guido Calabresi Lecturer at Yale University.
D.Phil, Oxford University; JD, Harvard University; AB, Swarthmore College
Link to: Personal Web site