Columbus School Of Law The Catholic University Of America Washington, Dc Cua
As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously seemed back to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to revive it to the peak it had reached three centuries before.” The Justinian Code remained in drive within the East until the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, meanwhile, relied on a combine of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was rediscovered within the eleventh century, and students Law at the University of Bologna used it to interpret their very own laws. Both these codes influenced closely not only the law systems of the countries …