Table of Contents

* Introduction Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley * Five Fables About Human Rights Steven Lukes * The Law of Peoples John Rawls * Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace Catharine A. MacKinnon * Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality Richard Rorty * The Others Rights Jean-Franois Lyotard * The Limits to Natural Law and the Paradox of Evil Agnes Heller * Majority Rule and Individual Rights John Elster

About the Author

Stephen Shute is a fellow and tutor in law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.Susan Hurley is a fellow and tutor in philosophy at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and author of Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity. She has been elected to a chair in political and ethical theory at the University of Warwick.