»Liberality and Responsibility«: With this Festschrift on the occasion of Jan C. Joerden's 70th birthday, the authors pay tribute to the jubilarian for his outstanding achievements in the field of criminal law, basic research in criminal law, medical criminal law, and the philosophy of law. Many of the essays collected in the volume relate to the areas of interest of the jubilarian. They are devoted to fundamental and topical questions of legal philosophy and legal theory, substantive criminal law, or the law of the ethics of medicine.