Dieser Band versammelt Aufsätze renommierter Völker-und Europarechtler über Vergangenheit und Zukunft des internationalen Rechts, die aus Anlass des 100-jährigen Gründungsjubiläums der Frankfurter Universität entstanden sind. Es geht um die Geschichte von Völker- und Europarecht, die zentrale Bedeutung der "spiritual dimension" der europäischen Rechtsordnung und um das Internet als Chance, alle von globaler Rechtsetzung betroffenen Personen am Entscheidungsprozess zu beteiligen. Mit Beiträgen von Michael Bothe, Stefan Kadelbach, Martti Koskenniemi, Joseph H.H. Weiler und Ingolf Pernice.

Rainer Hofmann und Stefan Kadelbach sind Professoren für Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht und Europarecht an der Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Law Beyond the State-Pasts and Futures: An Introduction Rainer Hofmann I. Introduction On 10 June 1914, Emperor Wilhelm II signed-albeit in his capacity as King of Prussia which had annexed Frankfurt in the aftermath of the Prussian-Austrian war of 1866 thus terminating its century-long status of Freie Reichsstadt-the decree granting the foundation of a university in Frankfurt am Main. The final step was taken on 1 August 1914 when Wilhelm II assented to the statutes of the university. Due to the ongoing war, the inauguration on 26 October 1914 is reported to have been more sober than originally planned; lectures began the following day thus successfully ending a long and often protracted process initiated and carried forward by a number of outstanding personalities such as Franz Adickes, long-time mayor of Frankfurt, and Wilhelm Merton, founder of Metallgesellschaft who had succeeded in mustering the political and above all very strong financial support of leading and affluent members of Frankfurt's traditionally cosmopolitan and liberal bourgeoisie characterized by its very high percentage of Jews; their very substantial endowments made Frankfurt University a true citizens' university, financially independ-ent from any Prussian state support. The Faculty of Law, one of the five initial faculties, comprised seven full professors (Ordinarien) among whom Friedrich Giese who was tasked to teach Public Law, including Public Inter-national Law. Commemorating the 100st anniversary of its foundation, Frankfurt University and a number of its institutions organized workshops and other academic events throughout 2014. Considering the eminent role usually accorded to Frankfurt scholars for the development of international law, the Faculty of Law convened, on 11 June 2014, in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", a workshop analyzing the role of Frankfurt in the past development of both Public International Law and European (Union) Law as well as looking into the futures of these branches of law as essential components of a "Law Beyond the State": Michael Bothe discussed, from a historic point of view, Public International Law in Frankfurt; Martti Koskenniemi shared his thoughts on International Law's Futures-Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow; Ingolf Pernice presented his project on Global Constitutionalism and the Internet. Taking People Seriously; and Joseph H.H. Weiler developed his vision on Taking (Europe's) Values Seriously. These papers, some of them substantially enlarged and revised, and complemented by an article by Stefan Kadelbach on Frankfurt's Contribution to European Law, are assembled in this publication in order to make them available to the public-at-large. II. The Pasts While Germanspeaking scholars always had played an important role in the development of international law, both as concerns its interstate aspects as Völkerrecht as well as its conflictoflaws aspects as Internationales Privatrecht, this situation was not reflected in any institutional academic settings until the years immediately preceding and following World War I: 1914 saw the foundation of the Kiel Institute for International Law headed by Theodor Niemeyer; the separation between Public and Private International Law was well reflected in the foundations of the Berlinbased KaiserWilhelmInstitutes for Comparative and International Public Law, under the directorship of Viktor Bruns, in 1924 and for Comparative and International Private Law, under the directorship of Ernst Rabel, in 1926, respectively. The strongly increasing relevance of Public International Law in Germany, not the least as a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty, was reflected, as concerns Frankfurt, in the fact that already in 1920, Karl Strupp began its teaching activities, first as Privatdozent, later (1926) as Extraordinarius but only in 1932 as Ordinarius, about one year before hebecause of his being a J