Common law embodies a heritage of freedom. The Code Napoleon embodies a heritage of state dictatorship.
To take the simplest example, common law assumes that you are innocent until proven guilty. Under the Code Napoleon, the state can convict you of a crime unless you prove yourself innocent.
I'm sure the LAT knows this, or at least certainly should know it. But they lean toward state socialism, so they really don't understand the benefits of common law, one of the important sources of our own Constitutional system.
This is not true. You are repeating false myths. The main difference between common laws and codex laws is that while the first are product of centuries of additions and patches starting from tribal past, the later are designed whole in a planned way.
Common laws are like feet/pounds/gallons. Codex law is like meters/kilograms/liters.
Even the countries which were glad to get rid of Napoleon did not want to return to archaic tribal laws
Common Law is a sharp stick in the eye of Fabian Socialism as well as everything more extreme than it.