Natural Law In Court: A History Of Legal Theory In Practice

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.

• | Author: R. H. Helmholz
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 08, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674504585
• | ISBN-13: 9780674504585