Caroline Humfress

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Caroline Humfress
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Years active1998–present
Known forLegal historian and professor
Notable workSee Selected Publications

Caroline Humfress, FBA , FRHistS , is a legal historian who is professor at the University of St Andrews and a co-director of its Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. In 2020 she was appointed L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School (Ann Arbor), where she teaches on the history of the Civil Law tradition. [1]

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Early life and education

Caroline Humfress received her advanced education at the University of Cambridge from where she earned her BA, MA, and PhD, [2] 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). [3]

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 and Research Fellow at St Catherine's College. She was Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2000 to 2005 before moving to Birkbeck College, University of London where she worked for eleven years (becoming Professor of History in 2014). In July 2015 she was appointed Professor of Medieval History and Deputy Director of the University of St Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. [4] In 2019/20 she became Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Legal Scholars. [5]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Caroline Humfress | University of Michigan Law School". michigan.law.umich.edu. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  2. Professor Caroline Humfress. Birkbeck College. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. 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.
  4. Professor Caroline Humfress. University of St Andrews School of History. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  5. "Current Fellows & Members | RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Retrieved 10 July 2022.