Annual conference of NOMOS: The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, on Capitalism and Socialism – Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00-6:45 EST

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.

In-person : Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (124 Mt. Auburn St. 520N Cambridge, MA 02138).

Online : 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), “Is Law the Form of Value?”
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), “Who Should Do What To Whom? A Puzzle About the Socialist Critique of Capitalism”

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), “Money and Other Public Things”
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), “Was Marx a Republican?”
NOMOS Business Meeting, 6:15-6:45 EST