2025 Conference Archive
AMINTAPHIL 2025 Conference
Institutions and Virtues Necessary for Democracy
September 18-21, 2025
Portland State University
We invite submissions for the 2025 conference of the American Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL) on the general theme of Institutions and Virtues Necessary for Democracy.
- Principal Papers Due Date: July 31st, 2025
- Due Date for All Comment Papers: August 30th, 2025
- Principal papers should be no more than 5500 words, and should begin with a brief abstract; comment papers should be no more than 2200 words.
- Submit papers to Win-Chiat Lee at leew@wfu.edu with the subject line: “AMINTAPHIL 2025 submission.”
AMINTAPHIL is an interdisciplinary society of philosophers, legal theorists, political scientists, and economists who are interested in normative questions about justice, society, the economy, and democracy.
- Attendees are expected to read the papers prior to the conference. The Program Committee will group papers on related themes into distinct sessions for the conference, and all sessions are plenary (i.e., there are no breakouts).
- This conference format lends itself to gaining deep, multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the chosen topic, and engaging in rich dialogue with other attendees. All on-topic submitted papers are included in the conference, and selected papers are published in a subsequent, peer reviewed volume of essays by Springer.
- It is affiliated with the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), which meets biannually in years opposite to AMINTPHIL meetings. All members of AMINTAPHIL gain membership in IVR.
- AMINTAPHIL members are eligible to submit papers. (Membership information is online at https://amintaphil.org/.) All members of AMINTAPHIL will be notified when principal papers are available for download.
Accommodation and travel information
Papers unrelated to the conference theme will be considered. Proposals or abstracts for such papers, however, will need to be submitted for approval. Please send them to Win-chiat Lee (leew@wfu.edu).
We especially encourage and invite early career scholars to join AMINTAPHIL and participate in our conferences by contributing either a principal paper or a comment paper.
- Executive Director: Win-Chiat Lee, leew@wfu.edu
- Program Committee Chair: Ioanna Tourkochoriti, itourkochoriti@ubalt.edu
- We have funds available, albeit limited, to assist with the travel expenses of early career scholars who have no or limited access to travel funds. Please send enquires or requests to the Executive Director, Win-chiat Lee, at (leew@wfu.edu).
- Accommodation and travel information will be disseminated later.