The legitimacy of international human rights regimes : legal, political and philosophical perspectives / edited by, Andreas Føllesdal, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Geir Ulfstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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