Andreas Føllesdal is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway. Johan Karlsson Schaffer is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway. Geir Ulfstein is Professor of International Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein; 2. The legitimate authority of international human rights: on the reciprocal legitimation of domestic and international human rights Samantha Besson; 3. On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies Steven Wheatley; 4. Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy Kristen Hessler; 5. The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence Başak Çalı; 6. Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law Ian Hurd; 7. Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry Lynn Dobson; 8. Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle Johan Karlsson Schaffer; 9. The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case Richard Bellamy; 10. Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies Andreas Føllesdal.