
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and served as a member of both the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Professor George is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (OUP 1993), In Defense of Natural Law (OUP 1999), and Conscience and Its Enemies (ISI 2016), among other books. His articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Professor George holds the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-three honorary degrees. He is a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Council on Foreign Relations.