We at the James Madison Program are very pleased to announce that Joshua Yang ‘25, one of our exemplary Undergraduate Fellows, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. According to the award announcement, the scholarship recognizes U.S. students for ”outstanding academic achievement” and “social leadership,” and covers the full cost of a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. Yang, who is from Palo Alto, California, is among 35 U.S. winners of the scholarship who will join the award’s 25th anniversary cohort.

Yang is writing a senior thesis on jurisprudence (philosophy of law) and legal normativity. His adviser is our very own Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

“Working with Joshua is an unmitigated pleasure,” Professor George said. “He’s a morally and intellectually serious young man who thinks rigorously about the deepest issues. His senior thesis explores different perspectives on the perennial question of whether, and if so how, law creates or reinforces moral obligation.”

Read the full announcement from Princeton University.