Christopher St. Germain (1460–1540) was an English lawyer, legal writer, and Protestant polemicist.
[1] In 1528, St. Germain published his first book, Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia, known as The Doctor and Student after the titles of the two interlocutors, a doctor of divinity and a student of the laws of England, a barrister.
It was the first study of the role of equity in English law, and set the terms for later discussions.
In 1532, St. Germain published the Treatise Concerning the Division between the Spiritualty and Temporalty,[3] a pamphlet purporting to mediate between the laity and the clergy, but, as Thomas More argued in a response, his Apology, actually interested in increasing the divide.
A number of anonymous pamphlets, very likely written by St. Germain, appeared in the 1530s, before his death at the age of eighty in 1540.