1. Training lawyers to make arguments in court?  The arguments are incomplete.

2. Demonstrate that legal texts trump biblical arguments? 

3. Illustrate the tension between parties in a courtroom?

4. Purely a teaching device to introduce students to the courtroom?

5. Why did he not refer to key texts in Causa 16 q.4?

6. Is this a real case?  Did Gratian participate as an advocate?  Judge?

Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek 129, fol.  165r