Jochen von Bernstorff is a Senior Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a Lecturer at the University of Mannheim. As a legal adviser in the UN Department of the German Federal Foreign Office, he was a Member of the German Delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 2004 and 2005 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2006, as well as a Member of the German Delegation at the UN General Assembly in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in New York.

• 1. Method and construction of international law in nineteenth century German scholarship; 2. Kelsenian formalism as critical methodology in international law; 3. An 'objective' architecture of international law: Kelsen, Kunz, and Verdross; 4. The new actors of universal law; 5. Legal sources as universal instruments of law creation; 6. The international judiciary as the functional center of universal law; 7. The role of the international legal scholar in Kelsen - a concluding reflection; Epilogue. On Kelsenian formalism in international law.

Jochen von Bernstorff is a Senior Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a Lecturer at the University of Mannheim. As a legal adviser in the UN Department of the German Federal Foreign Office, he was a Member of the German Delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 2004 and 2005 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2006, as well as a Member of the German Delegation at the UN General Assembly in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in New York.

• 1. Method and construction of international law in nineteenth century German scholarship; 2. Kelsenian formalism as critical methodology in international law; 3. An 'objective' architecture of international law: Kelsen, Kunz, and Verdross; 4. The new actors of universal law; 5. Legal sources as universal instruments of law creation; 6. The international judiciary as the functional center of universal law; 7. The role of the international legal scholar in Kelsen - a concluding reflection; Epilogue. On Kelsenian formalism in international law.

Jochen von Bernstorff is a Senior Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a Lecturer at the University of Mannheim. As a legal adviser in the UN Department of the German Federal Foreign Office, he was a Member of the German Delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 2004 and 2005 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2006, as well as a Member of the German Delegation at the UN General Assembly in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in New York.

• 1. Method and construction of international law in nineteenth century German scholarship; 2. Kelsenian formalism as critical methodology in international law; 3. An 'objective' architecture of international law: Kelsen, Kunz, and Verdross; 4. The new actors of universal law; 5. Legal sources as universal instruments of law creation; 6. The international judiciary as the functional center of universal law; 7. The role of the international legal scholar in Kelsen - a concluding reflection; Epilogue. On Kelsenian formalism in international law.