_Chairman_, WM. W. SMITHERS,

_Secretary of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American
Bar Association, Philadelphia, Pa_.

ERNST FREUND,

_Professor of Law in the University of Chicago_.
MAURICE PARMELEE,

_Professor of Sociology in the State University of Kansas_.
ROSCOE POUND,

_Professor of Law in the University of Chicago_.
ROBERT B. SCOTT,

_Professor of Political Science in the State University of
Wisconsin_.
JOHN H. WIGMORE,

_Professor of Law in Northwestern University, Chicago_.



INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH VERSION.

WHAT Professor Gross presents in this volume is nothing less
than an applied psychology of the judicial processes,--a critical
survey of the procedures incident to the administration of justice
with due recognition of their intrinsically psychological character,