The Law Society Of Eire
From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up until that time, in order that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of authorized texts from before. As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously looked back to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the peak it had reached three centuries earlier than.” The Justinian Code remained in force within the East till the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a combination of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was rediscovered in the 11th century, and students at the University of Bologna used it to interpret their very own legal guidelines. Both these codes influenced heavily not only the law methods of the nations in continental Europe (e.g. Greece), but additionally the Japanese and Korean legal traditions.
It additionally varieties the premise for the law codes of most countries of continental Europe and has performed an important position in the creation of the concept of a common European tradition (Stein, Roman Law in European History, 2, 104–107). Max Weber in 1917, Weber began his profession as a …
