Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. A member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, he served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights and as a judicial fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, he holds a doctorate in the philosophy of law from Oxford University and several honorary degrees. He is the author or coauthor of five books and editor of nine more. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and other scholarly journals, as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and National Review. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.