Join us for our 2026 conference, Free Speech and Its Critics, on Friday, September 25, 2026. It will be a hybrid event, with an in-person conference hosted by the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy and the Center for Law & Philosophy at the University of Virginia School of Law together with a Zoom meeting. There is no registration fee. Please register here, indicating whether you will be in person or on Zoom. We will distribute the Zoom link and a detailed schedule to registrants shortly before the conference. Editor Daniel Wodak has assembled an excellent group of speakers, listed below.

All who become a member by October 1 will receive NOMOS LXVII: Climate Change and NOMOS LXVIII: Structural Injustice (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. 

Panel I (Law):

·       Principal paper: Genevieve Lakier (University of Chicago)

·       Political Science commentator: Teresa Bejan (Oxford) 

·       Philosophy commentator: Robert Simpson (UCL) 

Panel II (Political Science)

·       Principal paper: Jeffrey Howard (UCL)

·       Philosophy commentator: Sam Berstler (MIT)

·       Law commentator: Amanda Shanor (University of Pennsylvania)

Panel III (Philosophy)

·       Principal paper: Luvell Anderson (Illinois)

·       Law commentator: Erin Miller (USC)

·       Political Science commentator: Maxime Lepoutre (Reading)

Panel IV (Guest Student Scholar)

·       Gabrielle Grow (Ph.D. candidate, Notre Dame, Political Science): "European Blasphemy Laws and the Tensions of Liberal Constitutionalism"

ASPLP members and registrants will have access to copies of papers ahead of the conference.