This Festschrift reflects the wide interests in legal history and influential teaching of its honorand. Topics such as legal developments in modern China for economic reasons (Dai) and the creation of the French civil code (Wolodkiewicz) may be read by classicists for entertainment more than instruction, but many of the thirty-five contributions are about Roman law, and will also interest Roman economic historians. Most of these deal with mainstream issues such as the correct phrasing of Roman wills (Avenarius), the attitude of Roman courts to foreign private law (Cascione), and the development of stipulatio (Knütel). Some follow more untrodden paths such as the commented list of legal references to paper transfers of money (Mayer-Maly) and the discussion of the different legal approach to damage occasioned along public as compared to private roads, including damage by tree-felling and animal-traps (Möller). There is also a broad historiographical assessment of the unique Roman development of a unitary system of political power articulated through local communities, Cicero's duae patriae (Capogrossi Colognesi), and, oddly, a collection of the archaeological and textual evidence for the Via Domitia in the area of Béziers (Clavel-Lévêque and Peyras).