International aspects play an immense role in the work of most lawyers today. One can even go further and say in order to understand most current challenges
most people would need a better understanding of global problems and the potential (and limitations) of (international) law to deal with them. Nevertheless, in this contribution I shall focus on the specific requirements with regard to the training of future lawyers - irrespective of whether they will work as attorneys, judges, prosecutors, notaries, civil servants or as employees of companies, associations, ngo s, or international organizations. In my view, knowledge of how to deal with these aspects is of fundamental importance for the goal-oriented and high- quality training of lawyers. Ideally, these aspects should always be an essential part of the training, but this is only possible if sufficient basic knowledge and skills are guaranteed. Unfortunately, it is still very common that no compulsory courses of international law are taught to future lawyers. This is particularly common for larger countries
where many legal transactions seem to be solely governed by domestic facts and law (though this is obviously most of the times a wrong assessment).