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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Washington, DC (September 22, 2016) – On September 28, 2016, Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, will receive the Irving Kristol Award, the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI’s) highest honor.
As AEI President Arthur Brooks notes, “Professor George’s career has been defined by a rare combination: deep scholarly rigor and broad public impact. His expert scholarship on key questions in jurisprudence, the Constitution, and American society commands great admiration throughout the academy.
“Equally impressively, Robby is dedicated to translating those ideas into action on behalf of the cause of ordered liberty. At Princeton, he is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. And he helps lead and shape important organizations such as the Becket Fund, the Bradley Foundation, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Witherspoon Institute as a board member or scholar.
“AEI is pleased to recognize these achievements with the Irving Kristol Award, and we are honored that Dr. George will be accepting our highest award on September 28, 2016.”
Professor George has also served his country in a variety of ways, as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, on the President’s Council on Bioethics, as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, as the US member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology, and as a former judicial fellow of the US Supreme Court. His numerous awards include the US Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, and 19 honorary doctorates.
Professor George will engage in a dialogue with Arthur Brooks focusing on America’s founding principles and the condition of our nation’s civic, educational, social, and cultural institutions.
“I am grateful beyond words,” Professor George said, “to be receiving an award from the American Enterprise Institute named in honor of one of my great intellectual heroes. When I was still a student, Irving Kristol’s writings caused me to question many of the orthodoxies prevailing in the academy. I was deeply impressed by his willingness to look at the facts straight on and his refusal to let them be colored or distorted by ideology. What’s more, I admired his courage in standing up to what we would later come to call ‘political correctness.’ Of course, in those days I didn’t know how much fun it is!”
AEI’s Irving Kristol Award is given annually to individuals who have made exceptional practical and intellectual contributions to improve government policy, social welfare, or political understanding. Established in 2002 in honor of AEI Senior Fellow Irving Kristol, the accolade replaced the Francis Boyer Award, which had been given for the previous 25 years. Previous recipients include Antonin Scalia, Paul Ryan, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, Arthur F. Burns, and in 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu. The ceremony and dinner will take place at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
This event is by invitation only. For press inquiries or additional information about the award and the dinner, please contact AEI Media Services at mediaservices@aei.org or 202.862.5829.
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AEI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization that works to expand liberty, increase individual opportunity, and strengthen free enterprise.
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