The International Society for Law and Morality (INSOLM)
In the late summer of 2006, Witherspoon Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Thomas D’Andrea began, with colleagues in Italy, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S., a new philosophical society, the International Society for Law and Morality (INSOLM). The aim of INSOLM is to promote work in the natural law tradition among a new generation of scholars on an international scale, across moral, legal, social, and political philosophy, and particularly to create a link via the U.K. for work being done in natural law theory in the Americas and in Europe. The Society represents no specific school of thought within the natural law tradition and has no specific religious affiliation, but is interested in constructive engagement from the natural law standpoint with rival and alternative views in the moral sciences. The Society is also interested in the connection between theory and praxis, and so on the effects of commitments in practical philosophy for current social policy and legislation (e.g., in the U.N., the E.U., and the U.S.).
INSOLM has its annual conference in Cambridge, and in due course the Society plans to begin an academic journal. Its present focus for expansion is to European countries where natural law theory has not had much representation (Scandanavia, the Netherlands, the new E.U. accession countries). Dr. D’Andrea directs this program.
Past Conferences
Nature, Law, and Normativity (January 4-5, 2007)
Updated October 8, 2007