Makau Mutua is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at SUNY Buffalo Law School. He is the author of Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan and Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique .

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Norm Setting in International Law and Human Rights
2. The Process of Standard Setting in Human Rights
3. The Multiplication of Actors
4. The Role of NGOs in the Creation of Norms
5. The Question of Deficits
6. New and Emerging Standards
7. A Normative Critique of Human Rights
Notes
Bibliography
Index