Roman law
Roman law is the name used for a system of laws used by the Roman Empire. It started with the twelve tablets of civil law, 749 BC. After the law code ordered by Justinian I it continued as Byzantine law. Roman law is the foundation of most legal systems in Europe, and its former colonies, and it influenced many other countries.
Roman Law Media
Title page of a late 16th-century edition of the Digesta, part of Emperor Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis
The basics of Roman law (in German with English captioning)
Cicero, author of the classic book The Laws, attacks Catiline for attempting a coup in the Roman Senate.
Legal systems of the world. Blue is based on Roman law.
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