FRIEDRICH CARL VON SAVIGNY's HISTORICAL SCHOOL of jurisprudence holds that:

1. FRIEDRICH CARL VON SAVIGNY (1779-1861), German jurist, founded the HISTORICAL SCHOOL. 2. KEY IDEAS: 3. (i) LAW IS THE PRODUCT OF HISTORICAL EVOLUTION — organic development; 4. (ii) VOLKSGEIST — the 'spirit of the people' or 'national consciousness'; law expresses the people's character; 5. (iii) Law emerges from CUSTOM and POPULAR CONSCIOUSNESS first, then becomes formalised by jurists; 6. (iv) OPPOSED RATIONALIST CODIFICATION — Savigny's 1814 pamphlet 'On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence' opposed the proposed German Civil Code as premature; 7. (v) Argued for SCIENTIFIC STUDY of historical evolution of Roman law to inform German law. 8. INFLUENCE: shaped German Pandectist school; influenced 19th century legal thought worldwide. 9. CRITICISM: idealist, mystified the 'spirit of the people'; ignored class conflict; positivists rejected the metaphysical Volksgeist concept. 10. Hence option B is correct. _Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Friedrich Carl von Savigny, 'On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence' (1814)_