THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY
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Current Officers Donald Horowitz
Nancy Rosenblum Debra Satz
Jacob T.
Levy
Sanford Levinson Past Presidents Carl J. Friedrich |
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. The society has two major activities: first, an annual meeting devoted to the discussion of one particular topic in political and legal philosophy, and second, the publication of a yearbook, NOMOS, in which the results of the discussions are incorporated in a series of articles on the topic by members who have participated formally or informally in the discussions. The annual meeting of the Society ordinarily takes place immediately after or preceding the meeting of one of the following three professional organizations: The American Philosophical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Association of American Law Schools. The next will be on December 28-29, 2007, held alongside the APA in Baltimore, on "Loyalty." The following meeting will be held in September 2008 alongside the APSA in Boston, on the topic "Evolution and Morality.". Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy December 28-29, 2007, Loyalty GIV-2. American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Location: Falkland, Fourth Floor 2:45-5:45 p.m. Topic: Loyalty 2:45-4:10 p.m. Chair: Sanford Levinson (University of Texas) Speaker: Daniel Markovits (Yale University) "Lawyerly Fidelity" Commentators: Lynn Mather, Martin Lederman 4:20-5:45 p.m. Chair: Donald Horowirz (Duke Unversity) Speaker: Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University) "For the Sake of Comrades" Commentators: Ryan Balot; TBA 6-8 pm: Reception: Kent A, Fourth Floor Saturday Morning, December 29 Dover B, 3rd floor 8-8:50 am: Breakfast reception 8:50-9 am- Business Meeting. Note: not 8-8:50 am as indicated on some schedules Group Session VII – 9:00-11:00 a.m. GVII-1. American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy 9:00-11:00 a.m. Topic: Loyalty Chair: Nancy Rosenblum (Harvard University) Speaker: Russell Muirhead (University of Texas–Austin) "Partisan Loyalties" Commentators: Richard Pildes; David Estlund (Preceded in same room by ASPLP breakfast, 8:00-9:00 a.m.) Fifty volumes of Nomos  have been published or will appear soon. The complete contents are available online.
The Liberal Arts Press: Atherton Press: Aldine-Atherton Press: Lieber-Atherton Press:
XLVIII. Toleration and Its Limits
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If you would like to be join the society, please
e-mail Jacob Levy or
write to the address above, and include your academic affiliation. Dues are $40
per year (payable here;
$30 for emeriti and graduate students), and entitle members to receive the
volume of Nomos
based on the conference that took place the year of their membership. (That is,
people who join as first-time members in 2007 will receive Nomos
beginning with LII: Loyalty ; they will not receive
volumes XLVIII, XLIX, or L due to be published before that volume.) The current
cover price for Nomos is $55.00. Nomos XLVII: Humanitarian Intervention,
was published in early 2006, and has shipped to 2002 dues-payers.
Please note: The Society does not keep a supply of back volumes of Nomos. Currently in-print volumes can be bought from online
booksellers or from NYU Press. Early volumes in the series are being brought back into print by Transaction Publishers.
Contact:
The American
Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
c/o
Jacob T. Levy, Secretary-Treasurer
Political Science,
Leacock Hall