Justinian I

he was awesome at it :P

Justinian I's major goals during his reign were to reunite the Roman Empire, return it to its former glory , and to reclaim lost territory in the West.

It was compiled by Justinian, Emperor of Byzantine in the 6th century. It was a collection of laws made by the best legal experts at the time.

His uncle was Justin I. He ruled with him as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, until his death. After Justin I died, Justinian was the full emperor of the empire. Jusitnian had a wife named Theodora, who became a very powerful woman in the empire's history. They did not have kids together, and I am not sure of any other family of his.

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she wasn't really powerful.

she helped Justinian

Justinian wanted to leave when the riots were in streets but Theadora stopped him and they both killed the rioters.

also Theadora told Justinian to remove the law about you cant get married to a higher or lower rank than yourself

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The Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) which was dubbed Justinian code in the 16th century, Itwas a review of imperial laws going back 400 years (to the time of Hadrian). It scrapped obsolete or unnecessary laws, made changes when necessary and clarified obscure passages. Its aim was to put the laws into books (previously they were written on many different scrolls), harmonise conflicting views among jurists which arose from centuries of poorly organised development of Roman law and have a uniform and coherent body of law. It also included the Institutiones (a textbook for first year law students), the Digesta (a collection of fragments taken from essays on laws written by jurists, which was used as an advanced law student textbook) and the Novellae Constitutiones (a collection of the laws issued by Justinian). It covered private, administrative, criminal and ecclesiastical law.

This collection of books was rediscovered in a library in Pisa in 1070. It had a big impact. Bologna University (established in 1088) was the first university in Europe and its major appeal was its faculty of law, which had four professors who specialised in studying interpreting this work. It attracted student all over Europe. The Corpus Juris Civilis became the plank of the development an emerging class of professional lawyers. It became the foundation of the law in the Italian city-states of the time and was used as the foundation of the law of the Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (reigned 1155--1190) was the first dynastic ruler to hire professional lawyers to run his administration, which became based on the Justinian Code. The use of Roman law provided a new rationale for imperial rule as the emperors' claim to divine right to rule had been challenged. It presented the law of the state as a reflection of natural moral law and the principle of rationality and provided a framework which ensured consistency in administration.

The Corpus Juris Civilis was also used to formulate the Napoleonic Code in 1804. This replaced the existing uncoordinated and contradictory web of separate old feudal and royal French laws. This code was different than the Justinian Code, which was a collection of edited or revised extracts of law. It was more systematic. Nevertheless, the latter provided material which was important in the creation this code, which was Europe's first modern code of civil law. Following the French example, many continental European countries later also compiled their codes of civil law and they, too, used the Corpus Juris Civilis as its foundation.

it created peace upon cionstantinople

The reason why the Justinian's code is important is because there would be no Justinian's. You see ha ha ha.

to reunite the roman empire

Justinian's reason for codification of the laws was to unite the great empire he was reconquering. He believed that an empire needed laws and military.

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I think one was to make all people fair under law and another was to consider a person innocent until proven guilty! Hope this helps!!

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It states many things about the laws and codes of the Roman times and the Byzantine Empire. It helped the people renew their beliefs in the Roman law. It also helped the people obey the law of the Byzantine Empire.

I actually don't know if there is any bad side to the Justinian Code, but I do know that it has helped the Romans get through stuff.

p.s.- Unicorns are real no matter what anybody says!!!!!

his wife Theodora, you, and your mother.....

Emperor Justinian ruled from 527 and 565.

He created a code of laws (body of civil law).

The Justinian plague affected the Roman Empire from 541-542 AD. The Bubonic plague or the black death name was not used by that time but historians are sure that it is the same thing.

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Yes there is. We have codification for each of the branches of Law, like Civil, Criminal, Economics, and so on. It's a model inspired by German codification in its major part. Hard to explain it briefly

the roman empire lasted 500 years

because it was dirty