Robert P. George

Robert P. George
Robert P. George in 2014
Born	Robert Peter George (1955-07-10) July 10, 1955 (age 61)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Harvard University (MTS, J.D.) Oxford University (D.Phil)
Occupation	Professor of jurisprudence
Employer	Princeton University
Awards	Presidential Citizens Medal Canterbury Medal Philip Merrill Award Bradley Prize

Robert Peter George (born July 10, 1955) is an American legal scholar, political philosopher, and public intellectual who serves as the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. George, a Roman Catholic, is considered one of the country's leading conservative intellectuals.

Aside from his professorship at Princeton, he also serves as director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, is the Herbert W. Vaughan senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.

George was born on July 10, 1955. He grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia, the grandson of immigrant coal miners. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD in Law), Harvard Divinity School (MTS in Social Policy), and Oxford University (DPhil in philosophy of law). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz.

George joined the faculty of Princeton University as an instructor in 1985, and in the following year became an assistant professor (a tenure-track position). He spent 1988–89 on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Fellow in Law at Oxford University, working on his book Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993, Oxford University Press). George was promoted to associate professor at Princeton in 1994, and to professor in 1999, being named to Princeton’s McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence, a celebrated endowed professorship previously held by Woodrow Wilson, Edward S. Corwin, Alpheus T. Mason, and Walter F. Murphy.