In praise of transnationalism / Brun-Otto Bryde -- Positioning German scholarship in the global arena : the transformative project of the German law journal / Armin von Bogdandy -- Theorizing transnational law -- observations on a birthday / Susanne Baer -- Law and learning in an era of globalization / Harry W. Arthurs -- The evolution of legal education : internationalization, transnationalization, globalization / Simon Chesterman -- Westphalia -- a paradigm? A dialogue between law, art and the philosophy of science / Marcilio Toscano Franca Filho -- The last treatise : project and person (reflections on Martti Koskenniemi's from apology to Utopia) / David Kennedy -- A response / Martti Koskenniemi -- Review essay -- remarks on post-sovereignty and international legal neo-conservatism : Reading Jeremy Rabkin / Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral -- Elements of constitutionalization : multilevel structures of human rights protection in general international law and WTO-law / Frank Schorkopf & Christian Walter -- Comparative law's coming of age? Twenty years after "critical comparisons" / Peer C. Zumbansen -- Avena and Sanchez-Llamas come to Germany : the German Federal Constitutional Court upholds rights under the Vienna Convention on consular relations / Jana Gogolin -- Much ado about human rights : the federal constitutional court confronts the European Court of human rights / Matthias Hartwig -- National constitutionalism, openness to international law and the pragmatic limits of European integration -- European law in the German Constitutional Court from the EEC to the PJCC / Carl Lebeck -- The reform of the German private limited company : is the GMBH ready for the 21st century? / Michael Beurskens & Ulrich Noack -- Review essay-German capital market law : a permanent reform / Matthias Casper -- Reforming German corporate governance : inside a lawmaking process of a very new nature -- An interview with Theodor Baums / Theodor Baums & Peer C. Zumbansen -- Review essay -- Jan Pieter Krahnen's and Reinhard H. Schmidt's the German financial system / David C. Donald -- The German draft legislation on the prevention of discrimination in the private sector / Nicola Wenzel -- Preparing Germany for the 21st century : the reform of the code of civil procedure / Giesela Ruhl -- Protego et obligo : Afghanistan and the paradox of sovereignty / Michael Bothe & Andreas Fischer-Lescano -- Iraq and the serious consequences of word games : language, violence and responsibility in the Security Council / Craig M. Scott -- Antinomies of power and law : a comment on Robert Kagan / Andreas Paulus -- Terror, sovereignty and law : on the politics of violence / Saul Newman -- Speech -- legal issues in the war on terrorism / John B. Bellinger, III -- Response -- the fight against terrorism and the rules of international law -- a comment on the papers and speeches of John B. Bellinger, Chief Legal Adviser to the United States State Department / Silja N. U. Voneky -- Preventing military humanitarian intervention? John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas on a just global order / Regina Kreide -- Questioning European Union constitutionalisms / Matej Avbelj -- Review essay -- Thomas Bruha et al. edited collection Welche verfassung fur Europa? [What constitution for Europe?] / Morag Goodwin -- The European Constitutional Treaty : an analysis / Udo Di Fabio -- The day the Earth stood still? -- Reading Jurgen Habermas' essay "February 15" against Ian McEwan's novel Saturday / Russell A. Miller -- Postconstitutional treaty / Alexander Somek -- Ireland's constitutional amendability and Europe's constitutional ambition : the Lisbon Referendum in context / Maria Cahill.