Legal education in continental Europe -- The law of nature in European courts -- Legal education in England -- The law or nature in English courts -- Legal education in the United States -- The law of nature in American courts
Summary
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
