This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries.

I: The Philosophy of Rights; 1: Libertarianism, Motivation and Rights; 2: Human Rights, Truth, MacIntyre, and Putnam's Pragmatism; 3: Towards a Natural Justice of Rights Relationships; 4: Collective Moral Responsibility; 5: Are Human Rights Universal?; II: Constitutional Rights; 6: The Role of the Constitutional Courts in the Development of Legal Systems; 7: On Constitutional Social Rights; 8: Modest Judicial Restraint; 9: Democratising Human Rights; 10: Judicial Protection of Human Rights in India; III: Minority Rights; 11: How to Justify the Rights of Political Minorities; 12: Cultural Citizenship: Minority Rights and Political Community; 13: Autonomy, Diversity and the to Culture; 14: Collective Rights: The Case of Indigenous Peoples; 15: Defending Women's Rights Internationally; IV: State Sovereignty and Human Rights; 16: Challenges to the Concepts of 'Sovereignty' and 'Intervention'; 17: State Sovereignty, the Common Good and International Intervention; V: Global Justice; 18: Nation-Building and Global Justice; 19: Retroactive Justice: Trials for Human Rights Violations under a Prior Regime; 20: Left-Libertarianism and Global Justice; 21: Global Ecological Citizenship and Human Rights; VI: Self-Determination; 22: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Rights of Self-Determination; 23: The Ethics of Self-Determination: Democratic, National and Regional; VII: Diverse Experiences of Human Rights; 24: Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: An East Asian Perspective; 25: Legal Moralism and the European Court of Human Rights; 26: The Paradox of Remedies; 27: The Success of Feminist Jurisprudence in India