Justinian's Legal Code

Caroline Humfress at the University of St Andrews

Simon Corcoran at Newcastle University

Paul du Plessis at the University of Edinburgh

The Roman Law Library

Annotated English translation of the Justinian Code by Fred H. Blume – George W. Hopper Law Library

Corpus Juris Civilis – Wikipedia

READING LIST:

Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983)

Peter Birks and Grant MacLeod, Justinian’s Institutes (Duckworth, 1987)

John Cairns and Paul Du Plessis (eds.), The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

Gilbert Dagron, Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

J. A. S. Evans, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power (Routledge, 2000)

Bruce Frier (ed.), The Codex of Justinian, 3 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

John Haldon (ed.), A Social History of Byzantium (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (eds.), The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500 (Catholic University America Press, 2012)

David Johnston (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

David Johnston, Roman Law in Context (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Randall Lesaffer and Jan Arriens, European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2009)

Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Cyril Mango (ed.), The Oxford History of Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2002)

John Moorhead, The Roman Empire Divided: 400 – 700 (Longman, 2001)

O. F. Robinson, The Sources of Roman Law: Problems and Methods for Ancient Historians (Routledge, 1996)

Aldo Schiavone, Jeremy Carden and Antony Shugaar, The Invention of Law in the West (Harvard University Press, 2012)

Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Warren Treadgold, A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford University Press, 1997)

Alan Watson (ed.), The Digest of Justinian, 4 vols. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985)