If in the mid-1990s a student had looked for an exciting place to study European Community and international trade law, exciting, that is, for the quality of what was on offer, he would probably not have chosen to do so in Munich. He would have found a place in which public international law was being taught with what I think was real passion, but as to European Law, the second subject in the curriculum of the Munich Faculty of Law of which I was in charge, I fulfilled my duty of course and probably did a decent job, but I did so without the fire and excitement I felt for the former. Thus, as to what was on offer for our interested student, European Law decidedly ranked second. (Lest there be no misunderstanding, I refer to the times long before Rudolf Streinz moved from Bayreuth to Munich and Community Law thus got its own prominent faculty “representative”.)