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Princeton's Robert P. George to present BYU forum address Oct. 28

Robert P. George, founder and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, will give a Brigham Young University forum address Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

George is author of “Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality” and co-author of “Embryo: The Case for Human Life” (Doubleday). George is also co-editor of “The Meaning of Marriage” with Jean Bethke Elshtain, a past BYU forum speaker.

His articles and essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the National Review.

George serves on the board of directors of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Institute for American Values, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the Family Research Council and the Center for Individual Rights.

The forum will be broadcast live on BYU Broadcasting channels. Visit byub.org/devotionals or speeches.byu.edu for rebroadcast information and archived forum audio, video and transcripts.

Writer: Brady Toone

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Photo by Kenny Crookston/BYU Photo

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