History

  • Period: 235 BCE to 527 BCE

    DOMINATE

    -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)
  • Period: 230 to 527

    POST-CLASSICAL ROMAN LAW

    -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
  • 1000

    THE CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS

    -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
  • 1100

    FEUDAL WORLD TO URBAN CIVILIZATION

    -Towns are new forms of political power
    -Irnerius began to recover that lawcode
    -Importance of Bologna
  • 1100

    AN AGE WITHOUT JURISTS

    -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