The present article approaches the criticisms occurred in Cuba against the prevalence
of Roman Law in university education during the first half of the XIX century. In that
order, the context in which such criticisms are produced, as well as the main criteria and
the figures inserted in this trend, will be analyzed. The role played by Roman law in the
formation of Western legal science and its subsequent crisis will be also analyzed. In this
last point, emphasis will be placed on Spain for being the metropolis of Cuba throughout
the studied period.
