R. H. Helmholz
Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9580
email: dick_helmholz@law.uchicago.edu

EDUCATION
Trinity College, Dublin
LL.D. (h. c.), 1992

University of California (Berkeley)
M.A., 1966, Ph.D., 1970

Harvard Law School
LL.B., 1965

Princeton University
A.B., 1962

EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago
Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law, 2000-presentRuth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law, 1984 - 1999Professor of Law, 1981 - 1984

Washington University
Assistant Professor of History to Professor of Law and History, 1970 - 1981

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 1991 - present

American Bar Foundation, Legal History Fellowship Committee, 1980 - 1986

American Council of Learned Societies, Delegate, 1992 - 2000

American Law Institute, Member, 2000 - present

American Society for Legal History, Vice-President, 1989 - 1991; President, 1991 - 1993; Honorary Fellow, 2004-present

Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation, 1991 - present

Association internationale d'histoire du droit, Executive Committee, 1992 - 2000; Vice-President, 2000 - present

Charles Homer Haskins Society, Council, 1988 - 1993

International Commission for Parliamentary and Representative Institutions, President, American Section, 1981 - 1986

North American Conference on British Studies, Council, 1985 - 1990

Selden Society, Council, 1980-present, Vice-President, 1984 - 1987