Professor Chris Carey FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Classics, Law
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Law
Summary
I began my career in Cambridge, where I was a research fellow at Jesus College, before moving to St Andrews, where I taught from 1977 to 1991, except for a visiting professorship at University of Minnesota in 1987-8; while there I also taught at Carleton College, Minnesota. I was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway from 1991, before coming to UCL to take up the Chair of Greek in 2003. My research interests include Greek lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, oratory, rhetoric and law.
Current post
University College London Emeritus Professor of Greek
Past appointments
Department of Greek and Latin, University College London Professor of Greek
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies President
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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Theories of constitutional interpretation as part of a general theory of interpretation of law. Theories of constitutional rights and their limitations. The role of the judiciary in protecting democracy
Professor Caroline Humfress FBA
Late Antique and Early Medieval history; Christianity and Roman law; comparative histories of law; analysing historical questions in dialogue with current legal, anthropological and sociological research
Professor Emily Greenwood FBA
Ancient Greek literature and cultural history in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE; responses to Greek and Roman classics from the 19th century to the present, especially in Black cultures.
