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 several times been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President’s Council on Bioethics. He has also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of J.D. and M.T.S. from Harvard University and the degrees of D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., and D.Litt. from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-one honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Bradley Prize, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. His books include Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality and In Defense of Natural Law (both published by Oxford University Press), as well as The Clash of Orthodoxies and Conscience and Its Enemies (both published by ISI Books).
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A Conversation with Professor Robert George
Hillsdale Student Chapter
Heritage Room33 E College St
Hillsdale , MI 49242
Mere Natural Law
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Saving Free Speech in Higher Education
Princeton Student Chapter
McCosh 28McCosh Hall
Princeton, NY 08544
A Conversation with Professor Robbie George
Columbia Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- Columbia Law School435 W 116th St.
New York, NY 10027
Mere Natural Law
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The U.S. Supreme Court’s originalist jurisprudence has been on display in its most recent terms...
Mere Natural Law
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The U.S. Supreme Court’s originalist jurisprudence has been on display in its most recent terms...
Yes, Congress Has Constitutional Authority to Protect Unborn Children
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, holding that the Constitution...
Book Review: Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny
In Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny (Peter Lang, 2019), editors William...
Book Review: Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny
In Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny (Peter Lang, 2019), editors William...
Natural Law Jurisprudence: A Primer
Professor Robert George presents a philosophical discussion about the nature of law. What do we mean when we speak about “law”? Is the concept of...