Who organized Roman Law into a comprehensive code?

Answer 1

When the Romans, both Patricians and Plebeian, realized that they needed a written or codified set of laws to prevent magistrates from arbitrarily interpreting unwritten custom, they are said to have sent a commission of three men to Greece to study Greek legal documents. Greece was selected because Athens had gone through the same problems that the Romans were having. They found that written law was the solution. When the commission returned to Rome, a group of ten was established to write down the laws. They were called the Decemviri. They had codified only ten laws by the time their term was ended and it took another year and another group of Decemviri to finish the job.