The annual conference of NOMOS: The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, on Capitalism and Socialism, will be on Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00-6:45 EST. It will be a hybrid event, with an in-person conference hosted by the Safra Center at Harvard University together with a Zoom meeting. You can register for the event here. 

• The in-person conference will occur in the Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (124 Mt. Auburn St. 520N Cambridge, MA 02138).

• Zoom meeting, 12:00-6:45pm EST https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95344062897?pwd=b47qRzL1uCvKnFLJcbzugRlutwgZUG.1 (passcode: 362802). If you have difficulty joining the meeting, you may contact Yuuka McPherson at ymcpherson@fas.harvard.edu.

Consent to Recording: The conference will be recorded. By joining the conference, you consent to being recorded while speaking.

Program

NOMOS editors Chiara Cordelli and Lucas Stanczyk have invited the following excellent group of speakers:

Panel I (Law): 12:00-1:30 EST

• Principal paper: David Grewal (Law, Berkeley)
• Political Science commentator: Katrina Forrester (Politics, Harvard)
• Philosophy commentator: Lisa Herzog (Philosophy, Groningen)

Break: 1:30-2:00

Panel II (Political Science): 2:00-3:30 EST

• Principal paper: Alex Gourevitch (Politics, Brown)

• Philosophy commentator: Nicholas Vrousalis (Philosophy, Erasmus U. Rotterdam)

• Law commentator: Vicki Schultz (Law, Yale)

Break: 3:30-4:00

Panel III (Philosophy): 4:00-5:30 EST

• Principal paper: Aaron James (Philosophy, UC Irvine)
• Law commentator: Lev Menand (Law, Columbia)
• Political Science commentator: Leah Downey (Politics, Cambridge)

Panel IV (Guest Student Scholar): 5:30-6:15 EST

• Kate Petroff (Phd Candidate, University of Chicago, Philosophy)

NOMOS Business Meeting, 6:15-6:45 EST

All members of NOMOS who attend the conference, whether in person or by Zoom, are encouraged to attend the annual business meeting, 6:15-6:45. The agenda will be distributed to all members by email shortly before the conference. 

Become a Member of NOMOS

If you are not already a member of NOMOS, we encourage you to join. All who become a member by October 1 will receive NOMOS LXVII: Policing and NOMOS LXVIII: Climate Change (the volumes growing out of our recent conferences). Only $50 per year for regular members and a mere $20 for graduate students and emeritus/a members. If you have trouble with the website, please contact Micah Schwartzman at schwartzman@virginia.edu.

Sincerely, 

Deborah Hellman, President

Micah Schwartzman, Secretary-Treasurer

Jennie Ikuta, Communications Director

Chiara Cordelli, Editor, and Lucas Stanczyk, Co-editor of Capitalism and Socialism