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. 

• Legal history and legal practice (Classical, Post-classical, Medieval); Roman law; Modern legal theory; law and anthropology.
• Religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity (c.200-c. 600 AD).
• History of ideas (Classical, Medieval and Modern periods).
• Concept of legal identity

BA (Cantab) Historical Tripos, Part I (1*, Distinction) and Part II (1*, Distinction)

MA (Cantab) and PhD (Cantab)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Fellow of the Society for Legal Scholars; Member of the Roman and Hellenic Societies; Fellow of the Ecclesiastical History Society

Ancient Law and Constitutionalism; Southern Epistemologies and Legal History; 'Ordering the Cosmos'; Defining 'Legal Identity', Ancient, Modern and Beyond

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)