“We must” Derrida states, “more than ever stand on the side of human rights. We need human rights. We are in need of them and they are in need, for there is always a lack, a shortfall, a falling short, an insufficiency: human rights are never sufficient.” “Which alones,” he continues “suffices to remind us that they are not natural. They have a history-one that is recent, complex, and unfinished,” Being unfinished and unnatural, human rights need constant updating: this entails the possibility to critique their working concepts, Derrida argues that “justice does not end with law. Nor even with duties…” The law is imperfect, finite, and conditional-historically, politically, etc. Likewise, duties imply a fulfillment. “by acting out of pure duty, I acquit myself of a debt and thus complete the economic circle of exchange: I do not exceed in any way the tantalization or reappropriation that something like a gift, hospitality, or the event itself should exceed. We must thus be dutiful beyond duty…” Thus, on the one side, lie law and duty, which are limited and subject to revision and reversion. On the other side, lies justice, which is infinite and inexhaustible, Justice is always excessive for the relation, to the other is elliptical: that is, without horizon. There can be such a thing as the human rights of empire.