Prof Caroline Humfress

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Head of School

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2893
Email: ch226@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: Mediaeval History, 71 South Street
Office hours: Tuesday 3-4pm or by appointment.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity (Hons)

Holy Lives in Late Antiquity (Hons)

The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe 400 - 1000 (Sub-Hons)

Postgraduate:

The Idea of Law (MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies)

Comparative Studies in Legal History (MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies)

Research areas

Caroline Humfress is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History, Co-Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research and a Convenor of the MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies. She has published widely on Ancient, Late Antique and Early Medieval law and religion, placing historical questions in dialogue with legal, anthropological and sociological concepts and approaches.

Most recently she has edited The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024): the first project of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history, working with an international team of experts across the fields of Ancient Greek, Roman, Indo-European, Near-Eastern and Chinese law. She is currently completing a monograph for Oxford University Press (Laws' Empire. Multilegalism in Late Antiquity), in addition to working on ancient constitutionalism and ideas of legal ordering in Late Antiquity and beyond.

PhD supervision

Niels Arends
Sophie Kniaz
Shannon Mcmillan
Freja Stamper
Chao Xiao

Selected publications

Cambridge comparative history of ancient law
Humfress, C. (Editor), Ibbetson, D. (Editor) & Olivelle, P. (Editor), May 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 744 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open access
Conclusion
Humfress, C., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 598-614 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Law and religion
Wells, B., Bickart, N., Davis, D., Harris, E., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G., Osborne, R. & Vandorpe, K., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 231-302 72 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Open access
Legal pluralism’s other: mythologizing modern law
Humfress, C., May 2024, In: Law and History Review. 42, 2, p. 155 - 168 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Legal procedure
Olivelle, P., Gagarin, M., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G., Manning, J. G. & Wells, B., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 303-375 73 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Legal science
Mantovani, D., Caldwell, E., Démare-Lafont, S., Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D., MacCormack, G., Olivelle, P., Osborne, R., Tooman, W. & Wells, B., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 73-145 73 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Preface: Cambridge comparative history of ancient law, a user’s guide
Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. xi-xv 5 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Status and family
Lubin, T., Bryen, A., Démare-Lafont, S., Gagarin, M., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G. & Manning, J. G., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 376-445
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Open access
Out of time? Eternity, christology and Justinianic law
Humfress, C., 31 Aug 2023, Political thought, time, and history. Robertson, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 36-53 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Justinian, Code of
Humfress, C., 17 Feb 2022, The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church. Louth, A. (ed.). 4th ed. Oxford: British Academy (Oxford University Press), Vol. 1. p. 1057 1 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

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