Justinian codifies Roman law
The Corpus Juris Civilis distilled a thousand years of Roman legal writing into an ordered body of statute, commentary and instruction.
Why it matters
The codification preserved Roman law for the future: revived in medieval Europe, it became the foundation of most civil-law systems on earth. Law as an engineered, versioned system starts here.
People
Justinian I · Tribonian
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Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica — Corpus Juris Civilis