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Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl , 1859-1938, German philosopher, founder of the phenomenological movement (see phenomenology ). He was professor at Göttingen and Freiburg and was greatly influenced by Franz Brentano. His philosophy is a descriptive study of consciousness for the purpose of discovering the stru...
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jurisprudence
jurisprudence , study of the nature and the origin and development of law . It is variously regarded as a branch of ethics or of sociology. Many of the major systematic philosophers (e.g., Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Kant) have expounded jurisprudential theories. Before the 19th cent. most j...
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jury
jury body convened to make decisions of fact in legal proceedings.
Development of the Modern Jury
Historians do not agree on the origin of the English jury. Although some authorities trace it to Anglo-Saxon or even more remote Germanic times, most believe that it was brought to England by...
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