Discussion About How To Use And Interpret Roman Law

Annotated Bibliography – Justinian Plague
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Dingledy, F. W. (2016). The corpus juris civilis: a guide to its history and use. Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 35(4), 231-255.
This article provides a clear discussion about how to use and interpret Roman Law. It focuses on the Justinian Code as well as how historical events in the past have helped shape these statutes. As for research purposes, the authors have explicitly provided a succinct discussion about how to conduct research about Corpus Juris Civilis. This includes the different texts, tips and tools that could enlighten the researcher such as The Institutes and Digest.
This article would help in the historic/cultural portion of the literature review by showing the external contexts that are present during the time of Justinian era. This would aid the research to know where to find the texts needed for different subtopics, as some of the possible answers to the questions are already provided in the discussion.
Watson, A. (2011). The digest of Justinian (Vol. 3). University of Pennsylvania Press.
This book talks about one of the four books of the Corpus Juris Civilis – the Digest. Specifically, it talks, not only of the Digest but also of its relations to the other books as well as other historical contexts during those times. But a majority of the book is a translation and annotation of the laws that are embraced in the original version, which provides the readers a good research material for studying the Code
This book is essential for the research. Being one of the four books of the Code of Justinian, the Digest would provide a bulk of the information needed for the historical or cultural discussion of the time during the Byzantine Empire. This book also provides some annotations and references which could be used for further research in cases where the information in this book is not sufficient.
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Encyclopædia Britannica. (2018, October 26). Code of Justinian. Retrieved from Britannica.com: /topic/Code-of-Justinian
This focus of this text is the discussion of the Code of Justinian (Corpus Juris Civilis). Particularly, it provides the importance of such code in today’s society, since it shows that the statutes have paved way for the creation of modern-day legal systems that govern the world. It also introduced the four books of the Justinian Code such as the (1) Codex Constitutionum, (2) Diges...