Patrick Henry College is excited to announce the class of 2019 commencement speaker is Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. George specializes in moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, bioethics, and the theory of conscience.
George's exposition in contemporary natural-law ethic based in Aristotelian and Aquinian philosophies is the leading in the country. He has helped to develop a moral theory called "New Natural Law Theory," conceived by Germain Grisez. In the realm of legal theory, George has expanded criticism of legal positivism and anti-perfectionism. He has also applied New Natural Law to embryo-destructive research, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, sexuality, rights of conscience, and religious liberty.
George is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, and also earned a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford. Along with these, he holds sixteen honorary degrees.
Along with teaching at Princeton University, George also frequently serves as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has also worked as the Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and on the President’s Council on Bioethics, and as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. He was also a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court.
Read the rest of his bio here.
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