Editing Theodosius II (section)

=== University and Law Code ===
In 425, Theodosius founded the [[University of Constantinople]] with 31 chairs (15 in Latin and 16 in Greek). Among the subjects were law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music and rhetoric. It is likely that his wife Eudocia encouraged him in this matter and was behind the establishment of the university;{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} she had been born in Athens, where the [[Neoplatonism|Neoplatonic School of Athens]] was the last great center for pagan, classical learning. Eudocia was known for her great intellect.

In 429, Theodosius appointed a commission to collect all of the laws since the reign of [[Constantine I]], and create a fully formalized system of law. This plan was left unfinished, but the work of a second commission that met in Constantinople, assigned to collect all of the general legislations and bring them up to date, was completed; their collection was published as the ''[[Codex Theodosianus]]'' in 438. The law code of Theodosius II, summarizing edicts promulgated since Constantine, formed a basis for the law code of Emperor [[Justinian I]], the {{Lang|la|[[Corpus Juris Civilis]]}}, in the following century.