Robert P. George

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Robert P. George

Robert P. George is affiliated with the following schools: King's College London, University College London, University of Oxford, Swarthmore College, Princeton University

Why Is Robert P. George Influential?

By Sara L. Austin, EdD

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Law, Constitutional Interpretation, Civil Liberties, Law and Religion
Notable conservative American legal scholar Robert P. George currently holds the titles there of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He has a varied educational background. He completed his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, earned his JD at Harvard Law School, and earned a master of theological studies at the Harvard Divinity School. He also earned several advanced degrees at the University of Oxford.

George was never a lawyer, but is a highly influential legal scholar and philosopher. He began his academic career at Princeton University in 1985 and quickly became tenure-track. Currently he is also a visiting professor of the Harvard Law School, and a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. His work and teaching are primarily focused on civil liberties, constitutional interpretation, and the philosophy of law.

Though now recognized as one of the most influential Christian conservative voices in the country, if not the world, George actually began his career as a member of the American Democratic party. George is generally credited with creating the “theoconservative” movement, and weaving it into the platform of the Republican party. Causes that he has pushed for include anti-abortion measures, anti-human trafficking, combatting anti-semitism in Europe, and urging hotel chains and other business not to offer pornography for customers. He founded the American Priniciples Project, a think tank based on his ideas, and once was the chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex rights. George is personally Catholic.

For his work, Robert P. George has received numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute. He also holds 19 honorary degrees.

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Peter George 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. A Catholic, George is considered one of the country's leading conservative intellectuals.

Robert P. George's Published Works

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Published Papers

In defense of natural law (119)
Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (98)
The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity (72)
Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (68)
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties And Public Morality (64)
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (59)
Lethal opioids or dangerous prescribers? (46)
The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (42)
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis (40)
Natural Law and Public Reason (38)
Natural Law and Human Nature (38)
Public reason and political conflict: abortion and homosexuality. (28)
Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis (28)
Making Men Moral (26)
Child Abuse: Law and Policy Across Boundaries (26)
The New Natural Law Theory: A Reply to Jean Porter (24)
Marriage and the Liberal Imagination (24)
Embryonic human persons (24)
The Moral Status of the Human Embryo (23)
Ontological and Ethical Implications of Direct Nuclear Reprogramming: Response to Magill and Neaves (21)
Production of pluripotent stem cells by oocyte-assisted reprogramming: joint statement with signatories. (20)
What Sex Can Be: Self-Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Union (17)
Suffering and healing – our core business (17)
Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement (17)
Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense of Altered Nuclear Transfer (15)
The Meaning of Marriage: Family, State, Market, and Morals (15)
Natural Law, the Constitution, and the Theory and Practice of Judicial Review (13)
Natural Law and Moral Inquiry: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Politics in the Work of Germain Grisez (13)
Kelsen and Aquinas on the Natural-Law Doctrine (13)
The ontological status of embryos: a reply to Jason Morris. (12)
Natural Law and International Order (12)
“Shameless acts” revisited: Some questions for Martha Nussbaum (12)
Acorns and embryos. The embryo question I. (10)
Body–Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics: Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (10)
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics by Patrick Lee (10)
The Concept of Public Morality (10)
The Cambridge companion to natural law jurisprudence (10)
Parental Responsibility and Shared Residence Orders: Parliamentary Intentions and Judicial Interpretations (10)
Constitutional politics : essays on constitution making, maintenance, and change (10)
Legal professionals’ knowledge and experience of autistic adults in the family justice system (10)
Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters (10)
The clash of orthodoxies (9)
Natural Law and Positive Law (9)
Moral Particularism, Thomism and Traditions (9)
Specialist palliative care for non-cancer patients: the ethical arguments (9)
Advance Care Planning: politically correct, but ethically sound? (8)
What's Sex Got to Do With It? Marriage, Morality, and Rationality (8)
Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morals: A Reconsideration of the Hart-Devlin Debate (8)
:Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology. (8)
Natural law, liberalism and morality : contemporary essays (7)
Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (7)
Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (7)
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz (7)
Recent Criticism of Natural Law Theory (6)
Does the “Incommensurability Thesis” Imperil Common Sense Moral Judgments? (6)
Ideas and Debates in Family Law (6)
The first fourteen days of human life. (6)
Lawrence v Gallagher [2012] EWCA Civ 394 – playing a straight bat in civil partnership appeals? (6)
Rewriting children’s rights judgments: from academic vision to new practice (6)
In defence of dissent: R (McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (6)
Infanticide and madness (6)
Pre-nuptial agreements: for better or for worse? (5)
Natural Law and the Constitution Revisited (5)
Ethics and the law: mental incapacity at the end of life (5)
Conscience and Its Enemies (5)
Moralistic Liberalism and Legal Moralism (5)
What is the point of spirituality? (5)
A clinical method for physicians in palliative care: the four points of agreement vital to a consultation; context, issues, story, plan (4)
Holmes on Natural Law (4)
ONE The Wrong of Abortion (4)
Life's Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom . By Ronald Dworkin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. 273 p. $23.00. (4)
Amici Curiae Brief of Robert P. George, Sherif Girgis, and Ryan T. Anderson in Support of Hollingsworth and Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group Addressing the Merits and Supporting Reversal (4)
A Defense of the New Natural Law Theory (4)
We must not deprive dying people of the most important protection (4)
Ethics and the law: making advance decisions about care (4)
Quaestio Disputata What Male–Female Complementarity Makes Possible: Marriage as a Two-In-One-Flesh Union (4)
Response to Sagan and Singer (4)
The Natural Law Due Process Philosophy (4)
Great Cases in Constitutional Law (4)
Terri Schiavo: A Right to Life Denied or a Right to Die Honored? (3)
Ethics and the law: artificial hydration at the end of life (3)
Ethics and the law: delegating decisions to another person (3)
'Alas poor Payne, I knew him...': an interpretation of the Court of Appeal's decision in Re F (International Relocation Cases) (3)
Ethics and the Law: Conflict with Relatives over Treatment (3)
Natural Law and Liberal Public Reason (3)
Individual rights, collective interests, public law, and American politics (3)
Human Cloning and Embryo Research: The 2003 John J. Conley Lecture on Medical Ethics (3)
Family finances and the corporate veil: Prest v Petrodel (2)
Re L (Internal Relocation: Shared Residence Order) (2)
Embryo ethics (2)
Practitioners’ Views on Children’s Welfare in Relocation Disputes: Comparing Approaches in England and New Zealand (2)
Nature, Morality and Homosexuality (2)
Gratz and Grutter: Some Hard Questions (2)
COHABITANTS' PROPERTY RIGHTS: WHEN IS FAIR FAIR? (2)
Expanding the remit of palliative care. (2)
Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law: Their Significance in the Natural Law Tradition (2)
Re F (Children) (Internal Relocation) [2010] EWCA Civ 1428, [2011] 1 FLR 1382 (2)
Practical Reason in the Context of Law (2)
Protecting Religious Liberty in the Next Millenium: Should We Amend the Religion Clauses of the Constitution (2)
With this ring I thee wed (Terms and conditions apply) (2)
Ethics and the law: when an advance care plan is overruled (2)
When Will the Supreme Court Put Us Out of Our Payne (2)
Ethics of embryonic stem cells. (2)
The Central Tradition—Its Value and Limits (2)
Re L (Internal Relocation: Shared Residence Order) [2009] EWCA Civ 20, [2009] 1 FLR 1157 (2)
Medicine and the moral compass (2)
Stack v Dowden – Do as we say, not as we do? (2)
The Natural Law Foundations of Medical Law (1)
How Do Judges Decide International Relocation Cases ? (1)
How do parents experience relocation disputes in the family courts? (1)
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity (1)
Two concepts of liberty … and conscience (1)
Ethical aspects of the case scenario (1)
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE HUMAN GOOD (1)
Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment in Cases of Dementia (1)
Book Review: Civil Religion: A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy (1)
A defense of conscience in healthcare (1)
Sex and the Body (1)
Changing names, changing places: reconsidering s 13 of the Children Act 1989 (1)
International relociation, care arrangements and case taxonomy (1)
Ethics and the law: waiting for a miracle cure from God (1)
CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND FAMILY LIFE (1)
10 – FREE CHOICE, PRACTICAL REASON, AND FITNESS FOR THE RULE OF LAW (1)
Stem Cell Research (1)
Comment: it is our responsibility to promote care, not killing (1)
Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice: Issues of Power in Theory and Practice . By Sharon Thompson [Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2015. xxiv + 219 pp. £50. ISBN 979-1-849-46598-4.] (1)
Reassessing relocation : a comparative analysis of legal approaches to disputes over family migration after parental separation in England and New Zealand (1)
International Relocation: Do we stand alone? (1)
The State of International Religious Freedom and Why It Matters (1)
The 1993 St. Ives Lecture - Natural Law and Civil Rights: From Jefferson's "Letter to Henry Lee" to Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail" (1)
Natural Law Ethics (1)
Children's state of mind and habitual residence in abduction cases (1)
The child’s welfare in a European perspective (1)
Matters of welfare and matters of law (1)
Ethics, Politics, and Genetic Knowledge (1)
The not-so-tell-tale heart. (1)
Family breakdown and poverty: to flourish,our nation must face some hard truths (1)
Ante-Nuptial Agreements: Fairness, Equality, and Presumptions (1)
Responsibility, Law and the Family by Jo Bridgeman, Heather Keating and Craig Lind (eds) (1)
The international relocation debate (1)
Conjugal Union: Introduction (0)
Relocation Disputes in England and Wales: First Findings from the 2012 Study (0)
5. Financial Provision for Children (0)
2. Family Relationships Between Adults (0)
2. Family Relationships between Adults (0)
Ethics and the law: expressing choices for end-of-life care (0)
12. Child Protection (0)
Ethics and the law: next of kin and care of vulnerable adults (0)
Children in cross-border situations: relocation, the Hague Convention on Child Protection 1996 and the Brussels IIbis Regulation 2003 (0)
Family Finances and the Corporate Veil (0)
9. Becoming a Legal Parent and the Consequences of Legal Parenthood (0)
International Relocation: Key Findings from the 2012 Study (0)
A dying man asking for a dignified end. (0)
8. Fundamental Principles in the Law Relating to Children (0)
557 Speaker ETHICAL ISSUES IN MANAGING ONCOLOGY PATIENTS (0)
Family Law (0)
The recognition of religious and customary marriages and non- marital domestic partnerships in South Africa (0)
Children in Cross-Border Situations (0)
Relocation research: early ideas from ten county court cases (0)
Relocation: the holistic approach restored (0)
10. Parental Responsibility (0)
PANEL ON PUBLIC THEOLOGY (0)
13. Adoption (0)
6. Financial Remedies on Divorce (0)
Ethics and the Law: The Suicide of a Terminally Ill Patient (0)
Return orders and the inherent jurisdiction after Re NY (0)
Parents' experiences of relocation disputes (0)
Dying with a neurological condition in adolescence (0)
Autistic individuals and the family justice system: research findings and good practice (0)
Truth Telling, Deceit and Lying in Cases of Advanced Dementia (0)
European Human Rights and Family Law . By Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan Herring, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010. 442 + xxxviii pp. ISBN 978-1-84113-175-7 £55.00 paperback (0)
Exploring in More Depth Issues of Truth Telling, Deceit and Lying (0)
Ethics and the law: family disputes and confidentiality (0)
Observations from the Bar (0)
Working with Remands (0)
1. Introduction to Family Law (0)
Ethics and the law: injections, best interests and duty of care (0)
Interview with Rob George (0)
7. Property and Finances When Non-Formalized Relationships End (0)
11. Private Disputes Over Children (0)
Why is The BMJ misrepresenting assisted dying? (0)
Autistic individuals and the family justice system (0)
Children’s Rights : The wider context (0)
Making determinations during life about the disposal of a body after death (0)
Relocation: A Spanner in the Holistic Analysis? (0)
10. Parental Responsibility (0)
Domestic relocation: key findings from the 2012 study (0)
11. Private Disputes Over Children (0)
9. Becoming a Legal Parent and the Consequences of Legal Parenthood (0)
Relocation Disputes: Developing Understanding, Developing Law (0)
Relocation : a practical guide (0)
Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (0)
3. Ending Relationships: Divorce and Separation (0)
8. Fundamental Principles in the Law Relating to Children (0)
12. Child Protection (0)
1. Introduction to Family Law (0)
‘Our normal is different’: autistic adults’ experiences of the family courts (0)
The inherent jurisdiction and child protection (0)
4. Domestic Abuse (0)
The Legal Basis of the Court’s Jurisdiction to Authorise Medical Treatment of Children (0)
Advance care plans—back to the future? (0)
Towards Shorter Probation Orders (0)
Can Sex Be Reasonable (0)
[Book Review of] Abortion and the Constitution: Reversing "Roe v. Wade" Through the Courts , edited by Dennis J. Horan, Edward R. Grant, and Paige C. Cunningham (0)
Human Cloning: What's at Stake (0)
Individual Rights and Collective InterestsDworkin on ‘Equal Concern and Respect’ (0)
Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense ofAltered Nuclear Transfer (0)
Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen (0)
Embryo Ethics: Justice and Nascent Human Life (0)
William B. Hurlbut, Robert P. George, and Markus Grompe reply [4] (0)
Body–Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics: Human Beings Are Animals (0)
Response to Tollefsen and Cameron (0)
Liberty under the moral law: B. Hoose's critique of the Grisez-Finnis theory of human good (0)
Religious Liberty and Political Morality (0)
Manning and the Language of Rights (0)
Recent Criticism of Natural Law Theory (reviewing Natural Law and Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb) (0)
Conjugal Union: Sex Outside Marriage (0)
Civil Rights and Liberties (0)
Conjugal Union: Marriage and the Law (0)
To the Editor (0)
"Patronage and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850-1900," by Dermot Quinn (0)
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth by John Finnis (review) (0)
Making Children Moral: Pornography, Parents and the Public Interest1 (0)
Trimming the Ivy: A Bicentennial Re-Examination of the Establishment Clause (0)
Human Nature and Morality (0)
Judicial Review and the Religion Clauses: A Response to Professor Greenwalt (0)
The Problem of Public Morals Legislation (0)
Response to: Is the pro-choice position for infanticide ‘madness’? (0)
Anti-Perfectionism and AutonomyRawls and Richards on Neutrality and the Harm Principle (0)
Girgis and George, JJ., dissenting. (0)
The Autonomy of LawEssays on Legal Positivism (0)
Body–Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics: Euthanasia (0)
Natural Law and Justice (0)
Further to revisit Colorado (0)
Natural Law and International Order (0)
Virtue and the State: (0)
Brief Of Law Professors Bruce P. Frohnen, Robert P. George, Alan J. Meese, Michael P. Moreland, Nathan B. Oman, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Rodney K. Smith, Steven D. Smith, And O. Carter Snead As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioners (0)
ANT vs. SCNT-reply (0)
One Hundred Years of Legal Philosophy (0)
Taking Rights SeriouslyWaldron on ‘The Right To Do Wrong’ (0)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese R.I.P. (0)
Justice, Legitimacy, and Allegiance: (0)
Human Flourishing as a Criterion of Morality: A Critique of Perry’s Naturalism (0)
Arguing Every Step (0)
Human Beings Are Persons (0)
Toward a Pluralistic Perfectionist Theory of Civil Liberties (0)
Brief of Constitutional Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners (0)
On Peter Simpson on “Illiberal Liberalism” (0)
Sidney Hook Memorial Award acceptance address: Reform is nigh (0)
The Unfairness of the Misnamed 'Fairness For All' Act (0)
Book Review: II (0)
Pluralistic Perfectionism and AutonomyRaz on ‘The Proper Way to Enforce Morality’ (0)
What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said (0)
Civic Education in the Academy: The Challenges Before Us (0)
The Story of a Well-Lived Life (0)
Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is (0)
The Baby and the Bathwater (0)
A Philosophy of Civil Rights and Liberties (0)
Body–Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics: Abortion (0)
Reply to the Jesuit Consortium (0)

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