Larry May

Biographic Data

ID3627878
NAMELarry May
GIVEN NAMESLarry
FAMILY NAMEMay
SIGNATUREMAY L
AFFILIATIONSVanderbilt University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS46
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX4

  • Contingent Pacifism

    Larry MayBOOKContingent Pacifism2018

  • Weighing Lives in War

    Jens David Ohlin, Larry May et al.BOOKWeighing Lives in War2017

    This volume combines philosophical analysis with normative legal theory. Although both disciplines have spent the past fifty years investigating the nature of the principles of necessity and proportionality, these discussions were all too often walled off from each other. However, the boundaries of these disciplinary conversations have recently broken down, and this volume continues the cross-disciplinary effort by bringing together philosophers …

  • The Deaths of Combatants

    M L Gro, Claire Finkelstein et al.BOOKWeighing Lives in War2017

    Although there are few restrictions on killing combatants, the contemporary law of war bans weapons that cause superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering. Because military necessity and humanitarian norms often conflict, no clear regulations have emerged. Instead, states sometimes ban weapons because they cause horrific wounds. But this determination is subjective and has led the Red Cross to seek objective medical guidelines on unnecessary suf…

  • Applied Ethics

    Larry May, Jill B DelstonBOOKApplied Ethics2017

  • Necessity in International Law

    Jens David Ohlin, Larry May et al.BOOKNecessity in International Law2016

    Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept--dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law. Jens David Ohlin and Larry May untangle these confusing strands and perform a descriptive mapping of the ways that necessity operates in legal and philosophical arguments in jus ad bellum, jus in bello, human rights, and criminal l…

  • Combatants and Civilians in Asymmetric Wars

    Jens David Ohlin, Larry MayCHAPTERNecessity in International Law2016

    This chapter examines the dividing line between combatants and civilians during contemporary asymmetric conflicts against nonstate actors, the preeminent type of military conflict in this age of global terrorism. Although the dividing line between combatant and civilian is well explored in both the legal and philosophical literatures, this chapter examines the subject explicitly through the lens of necessity. In particular it conentrates on the d…

  • Contingent Pacifism

    Open AccessLinda May, Larry MayBOOKContingent Pacifism2015

    In this, the first major philosophical study of contingent pacifism, Larry May offers a new account of pacifism from within the Just War tradition. Written in a non-technical style, the book features real-life examples from contemporary wars and applies a variety of approaches ranging from traditional pacifism and human rights to international law and conscientious objection. May considers a variety of thinkers and theories, including Hugo Grotiu…

  • Moral Status of Corporations

    Open AccessLarry MayCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    The moral status of the corporation is dependent on the moral features of the corporation and on the moral status of the members of the corporation.

  • Hobbes, law, and public conscience

    Larry MayARTICLECritical Review of International…2015References: 1

    This paper brings forth the importance of public conscience in Hobbes’s account of politics and law. It connects this idea to the famous Martens Clause that played and continues to play a crucial role in international legal debates. The Martens Clause, part of the preliminary materials of the Hague Conventions, posits that humanity’s ‘public conscience’ should play a role in international legal norms concerning warfare when treaties or convention…

  • Limiting Leviathan

    Larry MayARTICLEHobbes Studies2014

  • A Hobbesian Defense of International Criminal Law

    Larry MayARTICLEInternational Criminal Law Review2014

    I argue that when a Hobbesian State sovereign is not protecting, or is actively oppressing, his subjects, this opens the door for the possibility that another State or international institution could intervene to protect these people who are not having their security protected. Pursuing peace often means forming alliances and agreements that will lead to the establishment of a society that creates laws that are obeyed. Hobbes is quite explicit in…

  • Human Rights

    Open AccessDavid A Reidy, Chris Brown et al.BOOKHuman rights2013

    The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume, distinguishe…

  • A Hobbesian Approach to Cruelty and the Rules of War

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLELeiden Journal of International Law2013References: 1

    Contrary to the way Hobbes has been interpreted for centuries, I will argue that Hobbes laid the groundwork for contemporary international law and for a distinctly moral approach to the rules of war. The paper has the following structure. First, I will explain the role that the laws of nature play in Hobbes's understanding of the state of war. Second, I will explain Hobbes's views of self-preservation and inflicting cruelty. Third, I reconstruct …

  • Hobbes Against the Jurists

    Larry MayARTICLEHobbes Studies2012

    This paper discusses sovereignty and examines in detail Hobbes’s debates with the two leading legal theorists of his day, Coke and Hale, both Lord Chief Justices of the King’s Bench. I argue that Hobbes came to change his mind somewhat about the desirability of divided sovereignty by the time, near the end of his life, that he wrote the Dialogue . But I also argue that Hobbes should have developed more than a very thin conception of the rule of l…

  • Targeted Killings and Proportionality in Law

    Larry MayARTICLEJournal of International Criminal…2012Cited by: 2

    I will explore three problems. First, how can targeted killings understood on the domestic law enforcement model be conducted without violating due process concerns? If the targeting is based on the conduct or behaviour of the person targeted, then it seems that a judicial determination of the facts is required. And in any event, the killing, rather than the arrest, of the person targeted would rarely be justified on a domestic law enforcement mo…

  • Teaching American Politics and Global Hollywood in the Age of 9/11

    Larry MayARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2011Cited by: 1

    In the wake of the Allied victory in World War II, a powerful “victory culture” took root in the United States. American leaders promoted the idea that the nation's freedoms and very survival rested on the backs of strong men who learned in the struggle against fascism to avoid appeasement of foreign aggression (1). Due to their heroic sacrifices, Americans could enjoy economic abundance, classlessness, and democracy. Films made in the postwar pe…

  • Complicity and the Rwandan Genocide

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLERes Publica. Revista de Historia…2010Cited by: 4

  • Habeas Corpus and the Normative Jurisprudence of International Law

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLELeiden Journal of International Law2010

    In this article I am interested in seeing what the normative jurisprudential support is for a minimalist version of habeas corpus in international law. I investigate what Fuller called ‘procedural natural law’ in contemporary international criminal law. In the first two sections I rehearse some of Hart's and Fuller's views as they pertain to the subject of international law and also to the inner morality of law. In the third section I set out som…

  • Act and Circumstance in the Crime of Aggression

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLEJournal of Political Philosophy2007

  • Crimes Against Humanity

    Larry MayARTICLESocial Theory and Practice2006

  • Crimes Against Humanity

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2006Cited by: 6

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  • Humanity, International Crime, and the Rights of Defendants

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2006Cited by: 3

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  • Killing Naked Soldiers

    Open AccessLarry MayARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2005Cited by: 8References: 1

    Just war theorists contended that weapons are illegitimate unless they can be used in such a way so as to distinguish combatants from noncombatants. Contemporary international legal theory also draws heavily on the principle of discrimination. The Geneva Convention (IV), as interpreted in the Second Protocol of 1977, says: “The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack...Indiscriminate attacks…

  • Complicity

    Larry MayREVIEWThe Philosophical Review2002Cited by: 1

    Book Review| July 01 2002 Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age Christopher Kutz, Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 331. Larry May Larry May Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 483–486. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…

  • Complicity

    Larry MayREVIEWThe Philosophical Review2002