Larry May is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. He has published over thirty books, including War Crimes and Just War (Cambridge, 2007), After War Ends (Cambridge, 2012), and Contingent Pacifism (Cambridge, 2015).
Télécharger le livre :  Weighing Lives in War

The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war.The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-08-11

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The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war.The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-08-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Necessity in International Law

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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-09-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Proportionality in International Law

Proportionality is intimately linked to the overarching concepts of self-defense, lawful force, and the controlled application of violence. It is one of the most visible facets of humanitarian law designed to reduce unnecessary human suffering and avoid excessive damage...
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Parution : 2014-03-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Limiting Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes wrote extensively about law and was strongly influenced by developments and debates among lawyers of his day. And Hobbes is considered by many commentators to be one of the first legal positivists. Yet there is no book in English that focuses on Hobbes's...
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Parution : 2013-09-26

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