The reason why we consciously deviated from the classic idea of a Festschrift was not the lack of candidates among Bussani’s colleagues and friends—quite the contrary. The circle of Bussani’s scientific acquaintances includes so many scholarly VIP that we would only have had the problem of fitting them all in a limited number of pages. The reason why we abandoned the usual structure of a Festschrift was that we wanted to give justice to an oft-forgotten dimension of the job of a legal scholar and university professor, that of mentoring young people.2 By ‘mentoring’ we refer to scholars’ and professors’ capacity of fostering junior colleagues’ and students’ talents, channeling their abilities, and nurturing their potential to become successful and good professionals (if not better human beings) (Allen and Eby 2010).