Larry May is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and Research Professor of Social Justice, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt and Australian National Universityies. He is the author of numerous books, including The Morality of War; Crimes Against Humanity, which won an honorable mention from the American Society of International Law and best book award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy; and War Crimes and Just War, which won the Frank Chapman Sharp prize for the best book on the philosophy of war from the American Philosophical Association.
Part I. Pacifism and Just Wars: 1. Introduction: between the horrors and the necessity of war
2. Grotius and contingent pacifism
3. International solidarity and the duty to aid
Part II. Rethinking the Normative Ad Bellum Principles: 4. The principle of priority of first strike
5. The principle of just cause
6. The principle of proportionality
Part III. The Precedent of Nuremberg: 7. Custom and the Nuremberg precedent
8. Prosecuting military and political leaders
9. Prosecuting civilians for complicity
Part IV. Conceptualizing the Crime of Aggression: 10. Defining state aggression
11. Act and circumstances in the crime of aggression
12. Individual mens rea and collective liability
Part V. Hard Cases and Concluding Thoughts: 13. Humanitarian interventions
14. Terrorist aggression
15. Defending international criminal trials for aggression.
