Robert P. George holds Princeton University’s celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is Founder and Director of Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics. He has also been the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, he holds the degrees of MTS and JD from Harvard University and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-three honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, the Barry Prize of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Patrick J. Deneen is a professor of constitutional studies and political theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of several books, including the highly influential Why Liberalism Failed (Yale University Press, 2018) and numerous articles and reviews and has delivered invited lectures around the world. He has been awarded research fellowships from Princeton University, Earhart Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Virginia. His teaching and writing interests focus on the history of political thought, American political thought, liberalism, conservatism, and constitutionalism.
Adrian Vermeule is the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard. Before coming to the Law School, he was the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author or co-author of nine books, most recently Common Good Constitutionalism: Recovering the Classical Legal Tradition (Basic Books). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. His research focuses on administrative law, the administrative state, the design of institutions, and constitutional theory. Having grown up in Cambridge and attended Harvard College ’90 and Harvard Law School ’93, Vermeule lives in Cambridge still.
Andreas Kinneging is professor of legal philosophy at the University of Leiden. He studied political science at the Radboud University Nijmegen and obtained his PhD from Leiden in 1994, with an dissertation entitled Aristocracy, Antiquity and History – Classicism in Political Thought. He accepted a chair in legal philosophy as full professor in 2004. His fields of expertise are jurisprudence, political philosophy, ethics, axiology, deontology and constitutional theory. He has published extensively in Dutch and English, including the monumental De Onzichtbare maat: Archeologie van Goed en Kwaad (The Invisible Measure: Archeology of Good and Evil) in 2020.