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Richard "The Hammer" Helmholz is the Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1965 and also earned an A.B. in French literature at Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of California at Berkeley.
He is a member of the Selden Society Council. Before moving to the University of Chicago, he spent ten years at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a Professor of Law and History.
His scholarship was cited by Justice David Souter's majority opinion in the 2004 Supreme Court case Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain et al., 542 U.S. 692.
During the academic year 2007-2008, he was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He taught Property, European Legal History, and the Law of Oil and Gas. Professor Helmholz recently spent the Fall 2005 semester as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and is a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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