Introduction: A Ride on the Human Rights Bus, Bardo Fassbender and Knut Traisbach
Prologue: Limits and their Varieties, Henry J. Steiner
Part 1. Limits of Ideas, Limits of Communities: Paradigms and Biases
1:Humanity and the Claim to Self-Evidence, Lynn Hunt
2:The Self-Evidence of Human Rights: Origins and Limits of an Idea, Bardo Fassbender
3:Human Rights, Global Justice, and the Limits of Law, Kate Nash
4:Human Rights beyond the Double Bind of Sovereignty: A Response to Kate Nash, Mark Goodale
5:Emergencies and Human Rights: A Hobbesian Analysis, David Dyzenhaus
6:Reason, Faith, and Feelings: A Response to David Dyzenhaus, Conor Gearty
Part 2. Limits of Functions, Limits of Uses: Actors and Practices
7:Being a Realist about Human Rights, Christian Reus-Smit
8:Political Limits of International Human Rights: A Response (or a Rejoinder) to Christian Reus-Smit, Basak Çali
9:Human Rights Bodies and the Structure of Institutional Obligation, Jan Klabbers
10: Dissecting the Institution: A Response to Jan Klabbers, Rosa Freedman and Ruth Houghton
11:Differentiating Fundamental Rights and Economic Goals, Aryeh Neier
12:Advocating for Social and Economic Rights-Critical Perspectives: A Response to Aryeh Neier, Jeremy Perelman
Part 3. Limits of Scope, Limits of Recognition: The Case of Women's Rights
13:Between the Margins and the Mainstream: The Case of Women's Rights, Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin
14:Women's Rights are Human Rights: A Response to Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin from a Chinese Perspective, Bai Guimei
15:Women's Progress and Women's Human Rights, Martha C. Nussbaum
16:The Limits of Law: A Response to Martha C Nussbaum, Fareda Banda
Part 4. Limits of Pragmatism, Limits of Compromise: The Case of Armed Conflict
17:The Limits of the Laws of War, Frédéric Mégret
18:The Banality of Humanity (as an Absolute): A Response to Frédéric Mégret, Knut Traisbach
19:The Limits of Human Rights in Times of Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Armed Violence, Andrew Clapham
20:The End of the War/Peace Limit on the Application of International Human Rights Law: A Response to Andrew Clapham, Yuval Shany
Part 5. Limits of Prospects, Limits of Means: An Outlook
21:The Limits of Human Rights in a Moving World-Elements of a Dynamic Approach, Mireille Delmas-Marty
22:Where are the Limits of Human Rights? Four Schools, four Complementary Visions: A Response to Mireille Delmas-Marty, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
23:Strategizing for Human Rights: From Ideals to Practice, Douglas A. Johnson and Kathryn Sikkink
24:Historical Strategies for Human Rights: A Response to Kathryn Sikkink and Douglas Johnson, Micheline Ishay