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 the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research there.
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
- 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. Legalism: Rules and Categories. Oxford University Press. pp. 79–104. ISBN 9780198753810.
- Humfress, Caroline (2015), "Patristic Sources", in Johnston, David, The Cambridge companion to Roman law, Cambridge University Press, pp. 97–118, ISBN 0521719941
- Harrison, Carol; Humfress, Caroline; Sandwell, Isabella; Clark, Gillian (2014), Being Christian in late antiquity : a festschrift for Gillian Clark, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 0199656037
- 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 1412958652
- Humfress, Caroline (2007), Orthodoxy and the courts in late antiquity, Oxford, ISBN 0198208413
- Garnsey, Peter; Humfress, Caroline (2001), The evolution of the late antique world, Orchard Academic, ISBN 9781903283004
References
- ↑ Professor Caroline Humfress. Birkbeck College. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Professor Caroline Humfress. University of St Andrews School of History. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ↑ Caroline Humfress. Research at St Andrews, University of St Andrews. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
External links
- Justinian's Legal Code (extended podcast version), In Our Time, Humfress on the panel with Simon Corcoran and Paul du Plessis, 2016.
- Gnosticism, In Our Time, Humfress on the panel with Martin Palmer and Alastair Logan, 2013.
- The Pelagian Controversy, In Our Time, Humfress on the panel with Martin Palmer and John Milbank, 2011.
- The Nicene Creed, In Our Time, Humfress on the panel with Andrew Louth and Martin Palmer, 2007.