Rate My Professor Robert George

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He joined the Princeton faculty as an instructor in 1985 and became a tenure-track assistant professor the following year. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1994 and to full professor in 1999, when he was named to the McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence. George founded the James Madison Program in 2000 and continues to serve as its director. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he holds J.D. and M.T.S. degrees from Harvard University and the degrees of D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., and D.Litt. from Oxford University, along with numerous honorary doctorates.

George is the author of books including In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, and Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism. He is co-author of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, and Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Review of Metaphysics, and Review of Politics. He has served as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, on the President’s Council on Bioethics, as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and 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 and received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Among his honors are 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 Sidney Hook Memorial Award, the Philip Merrill Award, the Bradley Prize, the Irving Kristol Award, the Barry Prize of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Council on Foreign Relations.