NOMOS | The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Welcome
Greetings and welcome to the new ASPLP website! We’re still putting things together here, but we’ll soon be adding a lot of new features to the site: improved navigation, separate conference and NOMOS sections — including a searchable database of NOMOS volumes — and a members section where you can join the ASPLP and where members can renew their memberships, update their account information, find other members in a Society directory, and read the papers for upcoming conferences.
In the meantime, please excuse our mess! Big changes are underway.
Join the ASPLP
The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy was founded in 1955 by a group of friends in the social sciences, law, and philosophy who shared an interest in a range of problems traditionally treated within the broad context of interdisciplinary exploration and discussion of those issues of political and legal philosophy that are of common interest to those fields.
Annual Conference
The Society convenes an annual one-day conference held (on a rotating basis) in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Association of American Law Schools, the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), and the American Political Science Association. At the conference, one scholar each from law, philosophy and political science presents a paper, with responses by two discussants from each of the other disciplines. The conference papers form the core of NOMOS our annual yearbook. Our next conference will be held on December 29, 2010 in Boston during the APA on the theme of "Passions and Emotions". The following conference will be on the topic of "Federalism and Subsidiarity" and held one day during the annual meetings of the APSA, September 1-4, 2011 in San Francisco (exact day TBD).
NOMOS
In 1958 Harvard University Press published the first volume of NOMOS, the first yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Edited by Carl Friedrich, and entitled Authority, it began a series of 54 annual volumes published or currently in production. These thematic collections have been staples of political and legal philosophical scholarship for the last half-century and in many cases have become the first place for scholars to turn on any given theme. The essays continue to be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary research and undergraduate and graduate education.
Membership
The annual ASPLP conference is supported by members of the Society and ensures that NOMOS continues its venerable history as a premier outlet for legal and political philosophical scholarship. Members receive a copy of the NOMOS volume for the years in which they paid dues, and pre-conference access to papers and logistical information. You may join the ASPLP or renew your membership by clicking the appropriate button below. Payments are processed online with PayPal. Dues are $50/year for full-time members and $20/year for graduate students and emeriti/retired members.
Alternately, you may join or renew by sending a check for your payment and all the information requested below to:
Andrew Rehfeld
Secretary-Treasurer, ASPLP
Department of Political Science
Washington University in St. Louis
233 Seigle Hall, CB 1063
St. Louis, MO 63130
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