George Van Cleve

George William Van Cleve was Dean's Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center, 2020-2025. In addition to more than twenty-five years in law practice, he has taught part-time at five law schools and two universities. PhD, University of Virginia; JD, Harvard Law School.

In 2017, he published We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution. There is a video of his 2017 talk on that book at the U.S. National Archives on YouTube.

In 2020, he published Making a New American Constitution, a book on why the United States Constitution needs major reforms and how we can make them.

Van Cleve was interviewed by Richard Kreitner in two 2025 episodes of his excellent history podcast, "Think Back." The first is mostly about We Have Not a Government (6/17/25); the second focuses on Making a New American Constitution (6/26/25).

His hobbies include mountain hiking, biking, and reading.