Mitchell Hamline College Of Law

As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously appeared again to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to revive it to the height it had reached three centuries earlier than.” The Justinian Code remained in drive within the East till the autumn of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a mixture of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was rediscovered in the eleventh century, and scholars on the University of Bologna used it to interpret their own laws. Both these codes influenced closely not solely …