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 US Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the US Commission on Civil Rights and the US President's Council on Bioethics. He has also been the US member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the US 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 University and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University. He is a recipient of the US Presidential Citizens Medal and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He is of counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.