Natural Law in Court - A History of Legal Theory in Practice

Informationen zum Autor R. H. Helmholz is Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: R H Helmholz, R. H. Helmholz, Helmholz R. H.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9780674504585
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50458-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Legal History, LAW / Comparative, Legal History, comparative law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law