The contents are as follows:

Introduction (by Frederick Neuhouser), chronology, further reading, translator's note

Foundations of Natural Right, according to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre

• Introduction
• First main division: deduction of the concept of right
• Second Main division: deduction of the applicability of the concept of right
• Third main division: systematic application of the concept of right; or the doctrine of right

Part II, or applied natural right

• First section of the doctrine of political right: concerning the civil contract
• Second section of the doctrine of poltical right: on civil legislation
• Third section of the doctrine of poltical right: on the constitution

Outline of family right (first appendix to the doctrine of natural right)

Outline of the right of nations and cosmopolitan right (second appendix to the doctrine of natural right)