Aggression and crimes against peace
In this volume, the third in his trilogy on the philosophical and legal aspects of war and conflict, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression - the only one of the three crimes charged at Nuremberg that is not currently being prosecuted - that is similar to that for crimes...
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Cambridge University Press
2008
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : between the horrors and necessity of war
- Grotius and contingent pacifism
- International solidarity and the duty to aid
- The principle of priority or first strike
- The principle of just cause
- The principle of proportionality
- Custom and the Nuremberg "precedent"
- Prosecuting military and political leaders
- Prosecuting civilians for complicity : The Krupp
- Defining state aggression
- Act and circumstance in the crime of aggression
- Individual mens rea and collective liability
- Humanitarian interventions
- Terrorist aggression
- Defending international criminal trials for aggression