The School of German Law at the Jagellonian University in Cracow was established in 1997 as joint academic undertaking of the Law Faculties of the three Universities Ruprecht Karls- University (Heidelberg, Germany), Johannes Gutenberg-University (Mainz, Germany) and Jagellonian University (Cracow, Poland). The initiators and first directors of the School were Professor Kazimierz Lankosz (Cracow), Professor Horst Konzen (Mainz), and Professor Peter Hommelhoff (Heidelberg). The 5th anniversary of the School in 2002 provides a good opportunity to sum up the activity of the School until now and to ventilate some thoughts on the future plans for this innovative undertaking, which already had proven to have gone well beyond its original boundaries.