As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously appeared again to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to revive 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 combine of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was rediscovered within the eleventh century, which students at the University of Bologna used to interpret their very own laws. Civil law codifications based mostly carefully on Roman law, alongside some influences …