This chapter expands on a series of recent interventions about the consequences of the unraveling of juristocracy at a more diffuse transnational level: consequences for critical scholarship (both disciplinary and interdisciplinary), for the state of (mostly Euro-American) progressive politics, and for the urgent project to imagine alternatives to rights-based frameworks for change and justice-seeking that guard against the use of violence, ethnocentrism, and other expressions of an exclusionary juristocratic reckoning. The chapter begins by summarizing the well-known intellectual historical narrative of notable developments in the wake of the “endtimes” (Hopgood 2013) of human rights and other categories of law that were invested with the weight of social, political, and, to a lesser extent, economic transformation. After focusing on and tracing the afterlives of existing human rights up to the present, the chapter then introduces an alternative vision for what is described as the “future lives” of human rights, a proposition that recognizes the force of the different critiques underlining the profound turn away from human rights in the present, but which nevertheless seeks to go beyond these critiques. Although the original argument for “reinventing human rights” (Goodale 2022) was meant to examine fairly comprehensively the ways in which a radically reformulated account of human rights was still possible, an account, moreover, that might yet prove capable of galvanizing new and more sustainable forms of translocal social and political action, the 2022 intervention nevertheless left certain key concepts rather underdeveloped. As a response, the chapter returns to these key concepts in order to thicken the presentation of a reinvented human rights as a framework for multiscalar social mobilization and justice-seeking. Yet as the chapter emphasizes, this framework does not return “human rights” to its grounding in law – national, regional, or international. In this sense, the proposition builds on the transformative potential of the turn away from certain kinds of law. As the chapter concludes, the case for detaching human rights – conceptually and institutionally – from law seems as compelling as ever, perhaps even more so in light of the violent impotence of the international system writ large in the face of recent crises such as the global COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.