At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopold Wenger developed a concept of the history of antique law based on global history. Walter Selb changed Wenger’s concept decisively. Antique law had not developed uniformly and continuously, culminating in Justinian´s Roman law, but rather a plurality of laws had existed side by side, mutually influencing one another. Selb demonstrated his ideas in his works on the law of the Christian-Oriental churches. For Selb, the questions posed and the methods used in dealing with ancient sources from the Ancient Orient through the Byzantine and Meta-Byzantine periods are the only concord that exists between himself and Wenger. Eight years after Selb´s death on June 2, 1994, his co-editor Hubert Kaufhold completed Selb’s Magnum opus, a new edition of the Syrian-Roman Book of Law. To mark this occasion, scholars met in a conference on October 29, 2004 to present their current positions.