Caroline Humfress

Caroline Humfress, FRHS, FSLS, (born 1971) is a legal historian who is professor at the University of St Andrews and deputy director of its Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research.

Caroline Humfress
Born1971 (age 49–50)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Years active2000-present
Known forLegal historian and professor
Notable work
See Selected Publications

Early life and education

Caroline Humfress was born in 1971. She received her advanced education at the University of Cambridge from where she earned her BA, MA, and PhD,[1] the last for a thesis titled Forensic practice in the development of Roman law and ecclesiastical law in late antiquity, with special reference to the prosecution of heresy (1999).[2]

Career

Humfress held a Junior Research Fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge before being appointed the "Carlyle Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought" at the University of Oxford. She was Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2000-04 before moving to Birkbeck College, University of London where she worked for eleven years (becoming professor of history in 2014). Since July 2015 she has been professor and deputy director of the University of St Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research.[3][4] She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Legal Scholars.

Selected publications
  • 'A New Legal Cosmos: Late Roman Lawyers and the Early Medieval Church', The Medieval World, Linehan, P., Nelson, J. L. & Costambeys, M. (eds.) (London: Routledge, 2018)
  • Humfress, Caroline (2016). "Ordering divine knowledge in late Roman legal discourse - University of St Andrews". COLLeGIUM. 20: 160–176. OCLC 948926293.
  • Humfress, Caroline (2015). "Telling Stories about (Roman) Law: Rules and Concepts in Legal Discourse". In Dresch, Paul and Judith Scheele (ed.). Legalism: Rules and Categories. Legalism. Oxford University Press. pp. 79–104. ISBN 9780198753810.
  • Humfress, Caroline (2015), "Patristic Sources", in Johnston, David (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Roman law, Cambridge University Press, pp. 97–118, ISBN 978-0521719940
  • Harrison, Carol; Humfress, Caroline; Sandwell, Isabella; Clark, Gillian (2014), Being Christian in late antiquity : a festschrift for Gillian Clark, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 978-0199656035
  • Duindam, Jeroen; Harries, Jill Diana; Humfress, Caroline; Nimrod, Hurvitz (2013), Law and empire : ideas, practices, actors, Rulers & elites, v. 3., Brill, ISBN 9781299829541
  • Humfress, Caroline (2010), Bevir, Mark (ed.), Encyclopedia of political theory, Associate and commissioning editor for ancient and medieval entries, Sage Publications, ISBN 978-1412958653
  • Humfress, Caroline (2007), Orthodoxy and the courts in late antiquity, Oxford, ISBN 978-0198208419
  • Garnsey, Peter; Humfress, Caroline (2001), The evolution of the late antique world, Orchard Academic, ISBN 9781903283004

References
  1. Professor Caroline Humfress. Birkbeck College. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. Forensic practice in the development of Roman and ecclesiastical law in late antiquity, with special reference to the prosecution of heresy. Newton Library Catalogue. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. Professor Caroline Humfress. University of St Andrews School of History. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. Caroline Humfress. Research at St Andrews, University of St Andrews. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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