Add to ORKGIn spite of the progress of legal education in the last decadethere still lingers in some places that now time-worn belief thata knowledge of Roman law is of no use at all in the legal profession.This view of the present value of Roman law is obviouslysuperficial. It is based on the assumption that because theRoman state and tribunals perished centuries ago, thereforeRoman law itself has long been dead also. But this conceptionof the fate of Roman law is historically inaccurate and false.The spirit of Roman law did not die,-on the contrary it is stillvery much alive in our midst. It was the majestic and beneficentRoman law which more than any other single elementbrought civilization back to Europe following the barbaric delugeof the Dark Ag...