When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Cor

The most famous and influential collection of legal materials in world history, now available in a four-volume English-language paperback edition.

The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.

This book collects Honoré's groundbreaking work on the composition of Justinian's Digest, among the most important texts in Roman Law. It reconstructs the meth

The Civil Law of Rome in its developed form -- in its clarity, simplicity and orderliness -- is undoubtedly one of the supreme achievements of the human mind an