• I. INTRODUCTION
• 1: Ingo Venzke: Contingency Situated
• II. THEORISING AND NARRATING CONTIGENCY
• A. Enacted Structures and Structured Actors
• 2: Fleur Johns: On Dead Circuits and Non-Events
• 3: Genevieve Painter: Contingency in International Legal History: Why Now?
• 4: Umut Özsu: The Necessity of Contingency: Method and Marxism in International Law
• 5: Justin Desautels-Stein: The Realist and the Visionary: Property, Sovereignty, and the Problem of Social Change
• 6: Janne Nijman: An Enlarged Sense of Possibility for International Law: Seeking Change by Doing History
• B. Situated Perspectives and Possibilities
• 7: Filipe dos Reis: Contingencies in International Legal Histories: Origins and Observers
• 8: Michele Tedeschini: Historical Base and Legal Superstructure: Reading Contingency and Necessity in the Tadic Challenge
• 9: Mohsen al Attar: Subverting Eurocentric Epistemology: The Value of Nonsense When Designing Counterfactuals
• 10: Geoff Gordon: The Time of Contingency in International Law
• III. LOCATING AND RESISTING CONTINGENCY
• A. Migrants and Refugees
• 11: Frédéric Mégret: The Contingency of International Migration Law
• 12: Christopher Szabla: Contingent Movements? Differential Decolonisations of International Refugee and Migration Law and Governance
• B. Sea and Resources
• 13: Alex Oude Elferink: What if the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea had Entered into Force Unamended: Business as Usual or Dystopia?
• 14: Surabhi Ranganathan: What if Arvid Pardo had not made his famous speech? (False) Contingency in the Making of the Law of the Sea
• 15: Lucas Lixinski and Mats Ingulstad: Contingent Economic Ordering: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and International Commodity Agreements
• C. Human Rights
• 16: Kathryn McNeilly: Rights for Daydreaming: International Human Rights Law Thought Otherwise
• 17: Silvia Steininger and Jochen von Bernstorff: Who Turned Multinational Corporations into Bearers of Human Rights? On the Creation of Corporate 'Human' Rights in International Law
• 18: Matthias Goldmann: Austerity: Why Human Rights Came Late and Helped Little
• D. Armed Conflict
• 19: Emma Stone Mackinnon: Contingencies of Context: Contested Legacies of the Algerian Revolution in the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
• 20: Bianca Maganza: Unveiling Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions: Contingency, Necessity and Possibility in International Humanitarian Law
• 21: Amanda Alexander: The Narrative Contingency of International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against Humanity in Cixin Liu's Post-Humanist Universe
• 22: Nicholas Mulder and Boyd van Dijk: Why Did Starvation Not Become the Paradigmatic War Crime in International Law?
• E. Foreign Investments
• 23: Kathryn Greenman: The Law of State Responsibility and the Persistence of Investment Protection
• 24: Saïda El Boudouhi: Barcelona Traction Re-Imagined: The ICJ as a World Court for Foreign Investment Cases?
• 25: Josef Ostranský: From a Fortuitous Transplant to a Fundamental Principle of Law? The Doctrine of Legitimate Expectations and the Possibilities of a Different Law
• F. The New International Economic Order
• 26: Kevin Crow: Bandung's Fate
• 27: Michelle Staggs Kelsall: 'Poisonous Flowers on the Dust-heap of a Dying Capitalism': The United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, Contingency and Failure in International Law
• G. Eruptions
• 28: Edward Kolla: Contravention and Creation of Law during the French Revolution
• 29: Ana Delic: Contingencies in The Rise of European and Latin American Private International Law, 1850 to 1950
• IV. OUTLOOK
• 30: Samuel Moyn: From Situated Freedom to Plausible Worlds