Pandemia y derecho romano. Remembrando al emperador Justiniano y el Corpus Iuris Civilis

We live in a time of intellectual crisis, where it is believed that the study of Roman law is unnecessary and we vehemently trust in the aphorism orabunt causas melius. This phrase defines a rabble, but not a jurist since the latter does not pay exclusive attention to the only positive law because he knows that if he does, he will become an inanimate being, that is, an instrument of repetition of decrees and codes, or, likewise, someone who has lost both interests in knowing the origin of legal institutions and a taste for legal culture, and, as a consequence, someone who has also lost auctoritas to practice the profession. On this occasion, we will invite the reader to reflect on the importance of Roman law, provide information on the pandemic that occurred in the sixth century, and remember Justinian and his greatest undertaking: Corpus Iuris Civilis.