1. International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andreas Follesdal 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 Basak Cali 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 Follesdal.