Larry May (philosopher)

May is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of several books. His theory of international law has been described as "neo-Grotian".[1][2]

Larry May is an American philosopher and author.

Works
  • May, Larry (1992). Sharing Responsibility. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-51168-9.
  • Crimes against Humanity (Cambridge, 2005)
  • War Crimes and Just War (Cambridge, 2007)
  • Aggression and Crimes against Peace (Cambridge, 2008)
  • Genocide: A Normative Account (Cambridge, 2010)
  • Global Justice and Due Process (Cambridge, 2011)
  • After War Ends: A Philosophical Perspective (Cambridge, 2012)
  • May, Larry (2013). Limiting Leviathan: Hobbes on Law and International Affairs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-968279-9.
gollark: This is just assuming some underlying system of ethics, though.
gollark: You can argue that people's motivations might reduce to that but I don't believe that that's the day to day reasoning.
gollark: But substitute "fear of loss of general choice" or "fear of violent enforcement" or "fear of coercion" or something for "fear of death" and I think it sort of works.
gollark: And seem fine.
gollark: Deathpenaltyless countries *do* exist.

References
  1. "Larry May". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  2. Thaler, Mathias (4 September 2014). "Neo-Grotian predicaments: On Larry May's theory of international criminal law". Journal of International Political Theory. 10 (3): 345–360. doi:10.1177/1755088214539418.
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