The Embryo Question: Biotechnology and the Status of Nascent Human Life at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Published Date: January 24, 2007 | Topics: Philosophy, Politics and Current Affairs


Speaker: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University Presented by: The Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts Summary: The Distinguished Law and Technology Lecture Robert P. George is a member of the Presidents Council on Bioethics. He previously served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and as a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Professor George is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999), and editor of Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (1992), The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (1996), and Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality (1996), all published by Oxford University Press. He is also editor of Great Cases in Constitutional Law (2000) and co-editor of Constitutional Politics: Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change (2001), from Princeton University Press. His most recent books are The Meaning of Marriage, edited with Jean Bethke Elshtain and published by Spence Publishing Co. and The Clash of Orthodoxies, published by ISI Books. Professor George’s articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, First Things, the Boston Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has received numerous awards, including the 2005 Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of directors of several organizations. In addition to his academic and civic work, Professor George is of counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee.

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Cancel Culture: Princeton Professor Robert George looks at this trend from a Catholic perspective

Published Date: July 15, 2020 | Source: EWTN | Media Type: Video | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs, Religion

Princeton Professor Robert George looks at the growing “cancel culture” trend and discusses the difference between bullies and critics.

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Robert P. George on Our Universities, Natural Law, and Social Conservatism

Published Date: April 11, 2016 | Source: Conversations with Bill Kristol | Media Type: Podcast | Topics: Natural Law, Philosophy, Politics and Current Affairs

Princeton University professor, Robert George is one of the nation’s most distinguished students of legal and moral thought. In this conversation, George discusses the state of American conservatism as well as the condition of freedom of speech and thought on university campuses. He also details the development of his own political and moral views, including […]

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