Larry May
W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy Professor of Law Professor of Political Science
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Email: larry.may@vanderbilt.edu
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Education
J.D. Washington University
Ph.D. New School for Social Research
B.S. Georgetown University (International Affairs)
Biography
Larry May is a political philosopher who has written on conceptual issues in collective and shared responsibility, as well as normative issues in international criminal law. He has also written on professional ethics and on the Just War tradition. Over the course of his career, Professor May has published 24 books and 100 articles, and his books have won awards from the American Philosophical Association, the North American Society for Social Philosophy, the International Association of Penal Law, the American Society of International Law, and the American Library Association. His writings have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Serbian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. In addition to holding the W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and serving as a professor of law at Vanderbilt, Professor May is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. Before joining Vanderbilt's faculty, he taught at Washington University, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, and University of Connecticut. Professor May has lectured extensively around the world, including recent keynote or plenary addresses at conferences in Oxford, St. Andrews, Oslo, Helsinki, Krakow, Belgrade, Bielefeld, The Hague, Delft, Leiden, Montreal, Victoria, Toronto, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. He has served on the board of directors of the American Philosophical Association and is past president of the American section of the International Society for Philosophy of Law (AMINTAPHIL). He is currently president of the American Society for Value Inquiry. He occasionally takes criminal appeals cases, and has worked on several death penalty cases in the United States.
Representative Publications
Books
After War Ends, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2012)
Global Justice and Due Process, Cambridge University Press-Cambridge (2011)
Genocide: A Normative Account, Cambridge University Press-New York (2010)
International Criminal Law and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press-New York (2010) (co-editor with Zachary Hoskins)
Aggression and Crimes Against Peace, Cambridge University Press-New York, (2008). Winner, Book of the year prize, International Association of Penal Law (American Section)
War Crimes and Just War, Cambridge University Press-New York (2007). Winner, Frank Chapman Sharp Prize for best book on the philosophy of war and peace, awarded by the American Philosophical Association every two years, and Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association’s Choice Magazine
Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account, Cambridge University Press-New York (2005). Chapter 6 translated into Spanish, 2009. Award for best book in social philosophy, North American Society for Social Philosophy; Honorable mention, American Society of International Law; Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association’s Choice Magazine
Masculinity and Morality, Cornell University Press (1998)
The Socially Responsive Self, University of Chicago Press (1996)
Sharing Responsibility, University of Chicago Press (1992)
Working Papers
Hobbes on Law, Morality, and International Relations (book manuscript in draft)
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