Dr. Robert P. George, Esq., Princeton University

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches in the areas of philosophy of law, civil liberties, and American constitutional law and theory.  He is also founding Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. He is also Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee.  In 1994, he represented Mother Teresa of Calcutta as counsel of record for her “friend of the court” brief asking the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Professor George earned his law degree and a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and his doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University.  He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, and received a Knox Fellowship from Harvard for advanced study in legal philosophy at Oxford. He is author of Making Men Moral:  Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999), and editor of The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (1996), Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality (1996), and Natural Law Theory:  Contemporary Essays  (1992), all published by Oxford University Press.  His 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 American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Review of Politics, the  Review of Metaphysics, First Things, National Review, Boston Review, Commonwealth, and Crisis, among others.  Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a new series of books on law, culture, and politics published by Princeton University Press.  He has served as 1st Vice President of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists since its inception in 1992, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Catholic Social Science Review.  He is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars and Board of Advisors of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. He served from 1993-98 as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, where he took the lead in the Commission’s hearings on religious freedom in America’s public schools.  In the 1989-90 term, he was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he worked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and received in 1990 Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Among his other honors are a 1991 Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association and the 1994 Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. He is listed on the 1997 Templeton Foundation “Honor Roll” of outstanding professors.