Chapter 1. Definitions. Distinction between moral law and positive law
Chapter 2. On moral international law
Chapter 3. On utilitarianism as a test of international law
Chapter 4. On international positive law
Chapter 5. On consuetudinary international positive law, and its proofs and authorities as positive law
Chapter 6. What constitutes a state?
Chapter 7. Further matters to be considered as to the composition, the severance, and the extinction of states
Chapter 8. Of perfect rights of states
Chapter 9. On the conflict of international rights
Chapter 10. Of war, and generally of the obligations and rights arising out of warfare
Chapter 11. On rights and duties between the belligerents
Chapter 12. Rights and liabilities arising out of a state of warfare with regard to neutrals.