PUBLIC DISCOURSE: Robert P. George

Robert P. George is the Director of the Program in
Political Thought and Constitutional Government and the Herbert W.
Vaughan Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. He is McCormick
Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James
Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton
University. He is also a Professor of Politics and an associated
faculty member of the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. He is a
member of the Presidents Council on Bioethics, and previously
served 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.

Professor Georges articles and review essays have appeared in the
Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the
Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review,
the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics,
and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is a frequent
contributor to First Things, where he is a member of the
editorial advisory board, and has also written for the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, National Review, Touchstone, the

Boston Review, City Journal, and the Times
Literary Supplement.

Among his awards and prizes are the Bradley Prize for Intellectual
and Civic Achievement, the Philip Merrill Award of the American
Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Sidney Hook Award of the
National Association of Scholars, the Richard M. Weaver Award for
Scholarly Letters, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society
for Law and Public Policy, a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar
Association, and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award in Politics
at Princeton. He was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of
Law at Harvard.

Professor George serves on the boards of directors of the Lynde and
Harry Bradley Foundation, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the
Institute for American Values, the Institute on Religion and
Democracy, the Family Research Council, and the Center for
Individual Rights. He serves on editorial boards of the American
Journal of Jurisprudence, the Journal of International
Biotechnology Law, and Touchstone and First Things
magazines. Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a
Princeton University Press series of interdisciplinary works in law,
culture, and politics.

In addition to his academic work, he is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations and serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of
Robinson and McElwee.

A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Professor
George also earned a masters degree in theology from Harvard and a
doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University. He was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, and received a Knox
Fellowship from Harvard for graduate study in law and philosophy at
Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates of law, letters, ethics, humane
letters, civil law, and science.

Publications:
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993)
Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (2008) with Christopher Tollefsen
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (2008) with Patrick Lee
The Meaning of Marriage (2005) with Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Clash of Orthodoxies (2001)
Great Cases in Constitutional Law (2000) (editor)
In Defense of Natural Law (1999)
Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality (1996) (editor)
The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (1996)
(editor)
Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (1992) (editor)