Robert P. George

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 & Director of a James Madison code in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. A Catholic, George is considered one of the country's leading conservative intellectuals.

In addition to his professorship at Princeton, he is the Herbert W. Vaughan senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute and the Ronald Reagan Honorary Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Nootbaar Honorary Distinguished Professor of Law at Pepperdine University. He has frequently been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

Academic career

George joined the faculty of ] an endowed professorship before held by Woodrow Wilson, Edward S. Corwin, William F. Willoughby, and Walter F. Murphy. George founded Princeton's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in 2000 and is currently serving as its director as of 2021. While George describes the program as not conservative, articles in the media hit described it as a program that fosters conservative ideals.

George has been a frequent conversation partner with ] In March 2017, they jointly published the statement "Truth-Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression," in response to what they remanded as "campus illiberalism," stemming from an incident where an call speaker at Middlebury College was shouted down; the letter was picked up by national media.