By virtue of its research activities, particularly such major projects as the “Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law” (EPIL), the “Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law” and “Ius Publicum Europaeum”, as well as its international guests, the Institute is closely integrated into a dense network of national and international cooperation which is, in part, institutionally anchored. An institutional example is the Minerva Center for Human Rights of the University of Tel Aviv and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prof. Frowein is Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Minerva Center, Prof. Wolfrum is Managing Director of the Minerva Foundation, and Prof. von Bogdandy is a Member of the Board. Intensive institutional contacts are maintained with Poland. Through Prof. Wolfrum, the Institute has contributed over the years to the curriculum of the Rhodes Academy for Ocean Law and Policy, which is sponsored by American, Dutch, Icelandic and Greek institutions. Prof. Wolfrum also belongs to the International Max Planck Research School on Maritime Affairs in Hamburg. Besides this, he contributes to an international project of Harvard Law School aimed at codifying the customary law rules of air and missile warfare. As Global Law Professor, Prof. von Bogdandy has established a close institutional contact with New York University School of Law. He regularly holds doctoral-level colloquia in connection with the University of Rome I and the University of Paris II. Together with Prof. Sabino Cassese, he organizes the German-Italian Constitutional Colloquium. Finally, mention ought to be made of the establishment and realization of an LL.M. program on international economic law together with the University of Santiago de Chile and the law faculty of the University of Heidelberg. This program is supervised by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Rainer Grote and Prof. Wolfrum.