Robert P. George | |
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Born | Robert Peter George July 10, 1955 |
Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Harvard University (MTS, JD) Oxford University (DPhil, BCL, DCL) |
Awards | Presidential Citizens Medal Canterbury Medal Irving Kristol Award Philip Merrill Award Sidney Hook Memorial Award James Q. Wilson Award Bradley Prize Barry Prize |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Aristotelianism Thomism |
Institutions | Princeton University Oxford University Harvard University American Enterprise Institute Witherspoon Institute Pepperdine University |
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Doctoral advisor | John Finnis Joseph Raz |
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Robert Peter George (born July 10, 1955) is an American legal scholar, political philosopher, and public intellectual who serves as the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, philosophy of law, and political philosophy.
George is also the founder of the Witherspoon Institute, where he is the Herbert W. Vaughan senior fellow. He is also a senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, and is the Ronald Reagan Honorary Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Nootbaar Honorary Distinguished Professor of Law at Pepperdine University.[1] He has frequently been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.