The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (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 Association of American 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, now published by New York University Press, 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, Catharine 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. Since then, series editors have included Ian Shapiro, Stephen Macedo, Melissa Williams, Sanford Levinson, and James Fleming. The series is currently co-edited by Andrew Rehfeld (Washington University Political Science) and Jack Knight (Duke Law School).
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 Frank Thompson
Joel Feinberg
Kent Greenawalt
Michael Walzer
Martha Nussbaum
Frank Michelman
Amy Gutmann
Will Kymlicka
Donald L. Horowitz
Nancy Rosenblum
Debra Satz
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
XLVIII. Toleration and Its Limits, New York University Press 2008
XLIX. Moral Universalism and Pluralism, New York University Press 2009
L. Getting to the Rule of Law, New York University Press 2011
LI. Transitional Justice, New York University Press 2012
LII. Evolution and Morality, New York University Press 2012
LIII. Passions and Emotions, New York University Press 2012
LIV. Loyalty, New York University Press 2013
LV. Federalism and Subsidiarity, New York University Press, 2014
forthcoming from New York University Press:
LVI. American Conservative Thought
The volumes originally published by Atherton, Aldine-Atherton, and Lieber-Atherton are being republished by Transaction Press (starting in 2007).