The Impact of Philosophy on Law in Late Antiquity

It's very difficult to see what kinds of reasoning and dialectic argument the jurists were actually making themselves because we don't have the extant texts. We only have them as transmitted in this early 6th century corpus. So it's sort of like working on early Stoics or pre-secratics in the sense that you're trying to reconstruct what they said from these later reports. I guess one possible place to look at the possible impact of philosophy on law would be the way that the law treats different types of people by which I mean women, children, slaves as opposed to free men as opposed to citizens and so on. And I think that tells us a great deal about the setup