Caroline Humfress, FRHS, FSLS, is a legal historian who is professor at the University of St Andrews and a former director of its Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research.
[1] 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] 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.