George, William, PhD

William P. George is Emeritus Professor of Theology at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School, where his dissertation focused on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. In addition to various courses in theology and ethics, at Dominican he has taught international law for the Department of Political Science and for several years directed the undergraduate core curriculum. The author of Mining Morality: Prospecting for Ethics in a Wounded World (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019), his articles and book chapters have taken up such topics as international law and religion, global ethics, gun violence, climate change, and concern for future generations. His present work focuses on “ocean ethics” from multiple disciplinary perspectives.