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War Crimes and Just War

Name: War Crimes and Just War
Author: Larry May
ISBN: 9780521691536

by Larry May

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Synopsis

Argues that war crimes are best understood as crimes against humanness rather than violations of justice.

About the Author, Larry May

Larry May is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St Louis. He is the author of several books, including The Socially Responsive Self, Masculinity and Morality, and Crimes Against Humanity, the first book in a trilogy of volumes on the normative foundations of international criminal law. War Crimes and Just War, the second volume in the trilogy, received the Frank Chapman Sharp Prize from the American Philosophical Association.