林榕年教授是把我领进外国法制史学科的恩师。记得36年前,当我走进外国法制史这个专业领域时,作为历史专业毕业的学生,我对这个法学中的历史学科尚无太多的了解和发自内心的感情,只是因为大学毕业后,我有幸被分配在新中国外国法制史学科的创建者林老师身边工作。在从事了两年历史学理论的学习研究后,恰值1978年中国人民大学复校,便与他一起来到人大法制史教研室。很自然地,恩师将我带进了外国法制史这座装满人类法律文化瑰宝的学术殿堂,引领和指 Professor Lin Rongnian is a mentor who brought me into the discipline of foreign legal history. I remember 36 years ago, when I went into the field of foreign legal history, as a graduate of history, I did not know much about the history of law and my heart’s feelings. It was only because after graduating from college , I was fortunate to be assigned to work near teacher Lin, the founder of the history of foreign legal history in New China. After engaged in two years of study of historical theory and research, just as the Renmin University of China in 1978, he returned to the NPC Department of Legal History. Naturally, the mentor brought me into the history of foreign law, an academic hall full of human law and cultural treasures, leading and referring to