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-Power concentration in the Emperor (judicial, legislative and executive)
-Law as Imperial enactments (general, special and so-called laws)
-Compilations
-Important people such as Diocletian (who divided the Empire for better administration and made a tetrarchy, the chaos followed) and Justinian (who fought in the eastern army, made the territorial unification and the religious peace, buy after all, he prepared the Compilation: Codex, Digesta, Instituta and Novellae) -
-Simplification
-There were statutes, but no activity in the Senate and neither assemblies
-Jurists activity disappeared
-Important person: Caracalla, who promulgated the Constitutio Antoniniana: people in the Empire were citizens and the definition of cives: a person in the Empire is rules to Ius civile -
-Irnerius made the discovery of Justinian's compilation
-New volumes in five books: Digestum vetus, Infortiatum, Digestum novum, Codex and Volume parvum
-The market for juridical books: texts started to been copied, artisans and booksellers worked at top speed to produce them and the problem was that every volume was expensive- about 100 sheep were required to provide the material of one book -
-Towns are new forms of political power
-Irnerius began to recover that lawcode
-Importance of Bologna -
-The didn't exist until the 2th century
-Lots of problems such as hunger
-Jurists were not prepared to interpret norms
-In the Weastern Roman Empire: there was the Roman Law of Visigoths, legal culture in crisis and jurists were capable of little more than knowing how to read
-In the Eastern Roman Empire the situation was different, there was Justinian and Constantinople and rich libraries
-It was a force of arms and justice and solutions of a conflict wa sby violence