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Robert P. George, PhD, JD
Robert P. George, PhD, JD, is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, where he teaches in the areas of philosophy of law, civil rights and liberties, and American constitutional law and theory. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Professor George holds a 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 law and 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 Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality (1996), The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (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 Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, Law and Philosophy, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a Princeton University Press series of books on law, culture, and politics. He serves on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Editorial Advisory Board of First Things, and the Board of Consulting Editors of Academic Questions. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Philosophy Education Society, the National Association of Scholars, and the Institute for American Values. He recently completed a six-year term 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 1990 "Justice Tom C. Clark Award." His other honors include an American Bar Association "Silver Gavel Award" (1991) and the Federalist Society's "Paul Bator Award" (1994). He is listed on the Templeton Foundation's Honor Roll of Outstanding Professors. In addition to his academic work, Robert George is Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee. In 1994, he was counsel of record to Mother Teresa of Calcutta in her amicus curiae brief asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling in Roe v. Wade.
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