Robert P. George

The prize citation for Dr. George’s 2023 Barry Prize reads:

With intelligence, civility, and courage, Robert George has advanced our understanding of the intellectual and moral foundations of our Nation’s republican civic order. Bridging the disciplines of law and philosophy, he has illuminated not only the principles and institutions of American constitutionalism, but also the natural basis of justice, human rights, and the common good. The Academy honors Dr. George’s distinguished contributions to humanity’s pursuit of moral wisdom and liberty and justice for all.

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and
director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
at Princeton University. He has served as chairman of the U.S. Commission
on International Religious Freedom and on the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights and the President’s Council on Bioethics. He was a Judicial Fellow at
the Supreme Court, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of JD and
MTS from Harvard and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from
Oxford in addition to twenty-two honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of
the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal and Princeton’s President’s Award for
Distinguished Teaching, and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations.

November 2023