Robert P. George
American legal scholar and political philosopher (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | Robert Peter George (1955-07-10) July 10, 1955 (age 68) |
Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Harvard University (MTS, JD) New College, Oxford (DPhil, BCL, DCL) |
Awards | Presidential Citizens Medal Canterbury Medal Irving Kristol Award Philip Merrill Award Bradley 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 |
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.