Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

Specialization: Director, James Madison program; constitutional law, philosophy of law, political philosophy

Professor George is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and formerly served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He was Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book reviews. Professor George is a recipient of many honors and awards, including a 2005 Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award from Princeton's Department of Politics. He holds honorary doctorates of law, ethics, letters, science and humane letters.

Professor George is the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard University

D.Phil, Oxford University; JD, Harvard University; AB, Swarthmore College