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Observing a “paradigm shift” in international law (p. 1), in which “human beings are becoming the primary international legal person”(back cover), Peters sets out to describe, systematize and evaluate “in a legally meaningful way”“the phenomenon of the growth of individual rights and duties under international law,” particularly over the last thirty years (p. 7).

The survey project is an important and welcome contribution to the literature. There is indeed no other single source that systematically looks at the scope, status, and development of individual rights across the broad stretch of international law. Few scholars, moreover, are better qualified than Peters to undertake such a survey given the extraordinary depth and breadth of her intellectual engagement across fields of international law.