The Institute De Republica has published the first two volumes of the translation and elaboration of the Code of Justinian. The work was edited by prof. Tomasz Palmirski (Jagiellonian University), and one of the members of the team is an academic of the Chair of Constitutional and Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law and Economics of JDU – dr Kamil Sorka. The book is planned for four volumes. The Code is the most up-to-date part of the codification of Roman law carried out in the years 528–533 at the behest of Emperor Justinian I the Great (along with the Digests and Institutions, it was the basic source of law used in the administration of justice and state administration). It consists of 12 books containing a total of more than 4600 fragments (imperial decrees) from the time of Hadrian to Justinian, regulating such diverse issues as inheritance law, personal law, contract law, but also administrative law and tax law.
The translation is the first complete translation of the Code of Justinian into Slavic and at the same time the first Polish translation. The work together with the previously published Justinian Institutions gives rise to a promising publishing series Fontes Iuris Romani, which aims to make the sources of Roman law available in a scholarly study with a translation into Polish.