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Friday Evening, January 22, 2010
· Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill · Online ticket sales have been closed. Tickets will be available at the door. 6:00 PM Foyer—Social Hour
7:00 PM Opening Prayer—Dinner We are pleased and excited to announce that Professor Robert George, co-author of the Manhattan Declaration, will be the keynote speaker at the 28th Rose Dinner. The annual event, which is the culmination of the March for Life activities, will be held on the evening of January 22, 2010 in the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. The topic of his talk will be “Our Struggle for the Soul of the Nation.” Tickets can be purchased by clicking on the above link. Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is also a Professor of Politics and an associated faculty member of the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. He is a member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Professor George’s scholarly focus has been on the dignity of the human person and its implications for moral, legal, and political philosophy. He is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993), In Defense of Natural Law (1999), and The Clash of Orthodoxies (2001). Professor George’s articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Professor George also earned a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, On December 10, 2008, at a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, Professor George received the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the highest honors that can be conferred by the United States on a civilian. Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a Princeton University Press series of interdisciplinary works in law, culture, and politics. In addition to his academic work, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee.
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