George Godfrey Phillips CBE (7 June 1900 – 24 October 1965), was a British barrister and, later, solicitor, who served as the Commissioner General of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1939 to 1942. He was also co-author with E. C. S. Wade of a leading text on constitutional law.

Phillips was born 7 June 1900 in the United Kingdom, the son of Dr George Charles Phillips of Grantley, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire and Ethel Nancy Phillips.

He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in Law Tripos. He was also president of the Cambridge Union. He was called to the bar in 1925 and practiced as a barrister until 1932 when he became town clerk of Stafford.

In 1931, Phillips was co-author with E. C. S. Wade of Constitutional Law, commonly known as 'Wade and Phillips'.

In 1933 and 1936, he revised two editions of Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law.

Phillips married Betty Mary Bright eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Trevor Bright, of Henleaze-gardens, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol in May 1932. They had two sons and a daughter.

Phillips moved to Shanghai in 1934 to take up the position of Secretary to the Shanghai Municipal Council under Secretary General, Stirling Fessenden. On Fessenden's retirement in 1939, he was appointed Secretary and Commissioner General.

In January 1940, Phillips was the subject of an assassination attempt when 3 Chinese men riddled his car with bullets while he was being driven to work.