American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy

The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, or ASPLP, is a learned society founded in 1955 by political theorist Carl Friedrich. The ASPLP's annual thematic conferences form the foundation for the Nomos series. The ASPLP operates according to a distinctive three-discipline structure. Its annual meetings rotate on a three-year cycle, meeting in conjunction with the American Association of Law Schools, the American Political Science Association, and the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). Its presidency rotates among the three disciplines, with vice-presidents always representing the other two. And its conferences consist of three lead papers, one from each discipline, each with two commentators from the other two disciplines.

Nomos has published work by some of the leading political and legal theorists of the twentieth century, from a wide range of ideological and methodological perspectives, including Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Lon Fuller, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Walzer, Judith Shklar, Cass Sunstein, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Posner, Sheldon Wolin, James Buchanan, Catherine MacKinnon, Jules Coleman, Jean Hampton, Jon Elster, George Kateb, and Richard Epstein. The series was edited by Friedrich for volumes I-IX, coedited by J. Roland Pennock and John Chapman for volumes IX-XXXI, and edited by Chapman alone for XXXI-XXXV. Ian Shapiro edited volumes XXXV-XLII; Stephen Macedo, volumes XLII-XLVI; and Melissa Williams, XLVI-. Sanford Levinson will succeed Williams with volume LI. After Chapman's tenure ended, it became standard practice for each volume to have a guest co-editor, a position that also rotates among the three disciplines.

Presidents of the ASPLP have included:

*Carl J. Friedrich
*Charles M. Hendel
*Lon L. Fuller
*Frederick Watkins
*Richard B. Brandt
*Jerome Hall
*J. Roland Pennock
*John Rawls
*Graham Hughes
*Sheldon Wolin
*John Ladd
*Paul A. Freund
*Judith N. Shklar
*Alan Gewirth
*Louis Henkin
*Dennis F. Thompson
*Joel Feinberg
*Kent Greenawalt
*Michael Walzer
*Martha Nussbaum
*Frank Michelman
*Amy Gutmann
*Will Kymlicka
*Donald Horowitz

The volumes in the series, and their publishers, have been:
*I. Authority, Harvard University Press 1958
*II. Community The Liberal Arts Press, 1959
*III. Responsibility, The Liberal Arts Press, 1960
*IV. Liberty, Atherton Press, 1962
*V. The Public Interest, Atherton Press, 1962
*VI. Justice, Atherton Press, 1963
*VII. Rational Decision, Atherton Press, 1964
*VIII. Revolution, Atherton Press, 1966
*IX. Equality, Atherton Press, 1967
*X. Representation, Atherton Press, 1968
*XI. Voluntary Association, Atherton Press, 1969
*XII. Political and Legal Obligation, Atherton Press, 1970
*XIII. Privacy, Atherton Press, 1971
*XIV. Coercion, Aldine-Atherton Press 1972
*XV. The Limits of Law, Lieber-Atherton Press, 1974
*XVI. Participation, Lieber-Atherton Press, 1975
*XVII. Human Nature in Politics, New York University Press, 1977
*XVIII. Due Process, New York University Press, 1977
*XIX. Anarchism, New York University Press, 1978
*XX. Constitutionalism, New York University Press, 1979
*XXI. Compromise, New York University Press 1979
*XXII. Property, New York University Press 1980
*XXIII. Human Rights, New York University Press 1981
*XXIV. Ethics, Economics, and the Law, New York University Press 1982
*XXV. Liberal Democracy, New York University Press 1983
*XXVI. Marxism, New York University Press 1983
*XXVII. Criminal Justice, New York University Press 1983
*XXVIII. Justification, New York University Press 1985
*XXIX. Authority Revisited, New York University Press 1985
*XXX. Religion, Morality, and the Law, New York University Press 1988
*XXXI. Markets and Justice, New York University Press 1989
*XXXII. Majorities and Minorities, New York University Press 1990
*XXXIII. Compensatory Justice, New York University Press 1991
*XXXIV. Virtue, New York University Press 1992
*XXXV. Democratic Community. New York University Press 1993
*XXXVI. The Rule of Law, New York University Press 1994
*XXXVII. Theory and Practice, New York University Press 1995
*XXXVIII. Political Order, New York University Press 1996
*XXXIX. Ethnicity and Group Rights, New York University Press 1997
*XL. Integrity and Conscience, New York University Press 1998
*XLI. Global Justice, New York University Press 1999
*XLII. Designing Democratic Institutions, New York University Press 2000
*XLIII. Moral and Political Education, New York University Press 2001
*XLIV. Child, Family, and the State, New York University Press 2003
*XLV. Secession and Self-Determination, New York University Press 2003
*XLVI. Political Exclusion and Domination, New York University Press 2004
*XLVII. Humanitarian Intervention, New York University Press 2006

forthcoming from New York University Press:

*XLVIII. Toleration and Its Limits
*XLIX. Moral Universalism and Pluralism
*L. Transitional Justice
*LI. American Conservative Thought and Politics

The volumes originally published by Atherton, Aldine-Atherton, and Lieber-Atherton will be republished by Transaction Press beginning in 2007.

External links

* [http://www.political-theory.org/asplp.html Introduction to ASPLP]