Understanding the Role of a Legal Researcher
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As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously seemed again to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the height it had reached three centuries before.” The Justinian Code remained in pressure in the East until the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a combination of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law till the Justinian Code was rediscovered in the 11th century, which scholars at the University of Bologna used to interpret their very own laws. Civil law codifications based mostly intently on Roman law, alongside some influences from religious laws corresponding to canon law, continued to spread throughout Europe till the Enlightenment. Then, within the nineteenth century, both France, with the Code Civil, and Germany, with the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, modernised their legal codes. Both these …