

In addition to publishing in more popular contexts, he has given lectures and talks and engaged in debates on marriage and related topics throughout the United States and abroad. In 2012, Girgis, George and Anderson published an expanded version of the paper as a book, titled What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. Real Marriage IsAnd Is OnlyThe Union of Husband and Wife 252 1. Equality, Justice, and the Heart of the Debate 248 B. His paper “What Is Marriage?”, coauthored with Robert George and Ryan Anderson, was published in December and quickly became Social Science Research Network’s most downloaded paper of the previous year. WHAT IS MARRIAGE SHERIF GIRGIS, ROBERT P.


in philosophy at Princeton and his JD at Yale Law School. Upon graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2008, he went on to earn a master’s degree in moral, political and legal philosophy at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. His senior thesis on sex ethics won the Princeton prizes for best thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy. He majored in philosophy at Princeton, where he won several academic prizes, including the 2007 Dante Prize for the nation’s best undergraduate essay on Dante. Sherif Girgis was born in Cairo and grew up in Delaware. Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union.
