Beyond Human Rights, previously published in German and now available in English, is a historical and doctrinal study about the legal status of individuals in international law.

1. Definition of the question; 2. Historical theory and practice of the international legal status of the individual; 3. The doctrine of the international legal personality of the human being; 4. International individual obligations; 5. The international responsibility of the individual; 6. Individual rights arising from international responsibility; 7. Individual rights and duties in the law of armed conflict; 8. Protection against acts of violence and forces of nature; 9. The international legal status of victims of crime; 10. Rights and duties in investment protection law; 11. Individual rights in consular law; 12. Individual rights in diplomatic protection; 13. The legal basis for the international legal personality of the individual ¿ and the question of its independence from the State; 14. Human rights and other rights; 15. The individualized enforcement of international law; 16. Direct effect of norms establishing individual rights and duties; 17. The international individual right.