Justinian's <em>Corpus Juris Civilis</em> in Comparative Perspective:
John W. Head
In commissioning and promulgating his famous Digest—part of sixth-century legal compilation known as the Corpus Juris Civilis—the Emperor Justinian helped ensure that continental European law would be horizontal, written, scholarly, historical. The Digest, drawing from classical Roman law, lay dormant for several centuries following Justinian's reign but then reemerged in eleventh century to confirm those four characteristics. Significantly, it is very combination characteristics sharply distinguishes both traditional Chinese English common law.
[Mediterranean studies]