Caroline Humfress
Caroline Humfress, FRHS, FSLS, is a legal historian who is professor at the University of St Andrews and deputy director of its Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research.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, 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.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. Since July 2015 she has been professor and deputy director of the University of St Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. 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.
