The aim of the seminar is to explore the possibilities to integrate recent developments in International Law into a new structure of the international legal order. The old Westphalian system of sovereign states has undergone significant changes through (a) the establishment of International Organizations and institutions like the UN, WTO, ICC and other international criminal tribunals, (b) legislative and administrative functions exercised by the UN Security Council in order to combat international terrorism or to administer states in a post-conflict era, (c) obligatory international jurisdiction and dispute settlement, and (d) the emergence of common values, for instance human rights, protected by peremptory international norms (ius cogens), and of common interests governed by the common heritage of mankind principle. This could lead to a new community level above the (Westphalian) level of relations between the different subjects of international law in between and could have great impact on the position of states in international law. The seminar will examine, besides other problems, questions about a world constitution, norms protecting common values of humankind, the position of the individual in this order including human rights and duties, the actual scope of state sovereignty and questions about enforcement. At the end of the seminar contours of this new international order should emerge from the mist as well as its advantages and disadvantages. The seminar will depend on the input of the participants through research papers and lively discussions. Transnational Law is a prerequisite.