Beyond Human Rights

Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, and a Professor at the Universität Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Universität Basel, Switzerland. She has been a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-15) and served as the President of the European Society of International Law (2010-12). Her current research interests relate to public international law, including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism, and the status of humans in international law.

From a review of the German edition: 'There is much to admire in Anne Peters' book, so much that after reading Jenseits der Menschenrechte, it is difficult to imagine what else can be done in this area of the law.' Roland Portmann, Völkerrechtsblog (voelkerrechtsblog.org)

• 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.