Richard H. Helmholz (born 1940) is the Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
He is a member of the Selden Society Council[1] and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
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.
[2] He teaches property, European legal history, and the law of oil and gas.
In 2000–01, Helmholz was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge and in Fall 2005, he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.