Refugees and the myth of human rights : life outside the pale of the law / Emma Larking.

1. Scum of the earth I
2. Rights and the nation-state
3. The perplexities of the rights of man
4. Natural law and the false promise of a universal community of equals
5. Liberalism's false promise I : Locke
6. Liberalism's false promise II : Kant
7. Scum of the earth II : contemporary refugees
8. The international human rights regime and the sovereignty of states
9. The right to have rights and a new law on earth.