FIFTEEN REASONS TO STUDY ROMAN LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REFLECTIONS FROM THE "LEGAL CULTURE" OF AN OUTSIDER

Abstract

The present reflection openly opposes that obstinate university current that in Costa Rica looks at Roman Law with contempt and that, without major bases of support, considers it as a matter that consists of little less than a waste of time. Keeping in mind the fate of solitude that sometimes accompanies the bona fide jurist, these heterogeneous reasons have been founded against the current in an attempt to deny with grounds the echo of voices that with modernist —or perhaps, populist— eagerness raise their perfidious flags pretending to publicize with contempt everything inherited from the processes of historical-dogmatic formation of legal institutions.