R H Helmholz: 3 books
Natural Law in Court
A History of Legal Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. R. H. Helmholz shows how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in the West, and concludes that historically it has advanced the cause of justice.
The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume fills a gap; it investigates the law by which they were governed and discusses their careers in legal practice. Using sources drawn from the Roman and...
The ius commune in England
Four Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
This study addresses the ius commune's relation to and influence on English law. Helmholz aims to fill in some of the gaps in scholarship on the common legal past of Western law, the history of the Roman and canon laws, the history of the ecclesiastical courts, parallels between the ius commune and English common law, and English church history.