European Society for Comparative Legal History

In 2026, we mark the 1,550th anniversary of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 an event that reshaped the map and destiny of Europe at the time. Nevertheless, this political collapse could not erase a thousand years of the development of Roman law, which later returned to Western Europe through the rediscovery of the Digest and the work of numerous schools that studied and applied Roman law, from the glossators to the pandectists. By contrast, in the Eastern Roman Rhomaian Byzantine Emp

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In 2026, we mark the 1,550th anniversary of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 an event that reshaped the map and destiny of Europe at the time. Nevertheless, this political collapse could not erase a thousand years of the development of Roman law, which later returned to Western Europe through the rediscovery of the Digest and the work of numerous schools that studied and applied Roman law, from the glossators to the pandectists. By contrast, in the Eastern Roman Rhomaian Byzantine Emp

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