Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches in the areas of philosophy of law, civil liberties, and American constitutional law and theory. He is also Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee. In 1994, he represented Mother Teresa of Calcutta as counsel of record for her "friend of the court" brief asking the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Professor George earned his law degree and a master's degree in theology from Harvard University and his doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University.

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, and received a Knox Fellowship from Harvard for advanced study in legal philosophy at Oxford.

Professor George served from 1993-98 as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, where he took the lead in the Commission's hearings on religious freedom in America's public schools. In the 1989-90 term, he was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he worked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and received the 1990 Justice Tom C. Clark Award..

He is the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999), and editor of The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (1996), Natural Law , Liberalism and Morality (1996), and Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (1992).

Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a new series of books on law, culture and politics published by Princeton University Press. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Editorial Advisory Board of First Things, and on the Board of Consulting Editors of Academic Questions.