Helle Vogt

Teaching

Helle Vogt is currently responsible for the instruction of legal history, including:

• Comparative law
• Roman law
• Danish legal history
• Western constitutionalisation

Helle has been teaching in both Danish and European legal history at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen from 2002.

Helle Vogt can offer expertise and supervision in Danish and European legal history from Roman Law untill today, and in Islamic legal culture.

Primary fields of research

Helle Vogt's research areas concerns danish and nordic legal history from the medieval period to modern times with a special focus on:

• The influence of religion on the conception of law
• The influence of foreign law
• Law of wills and succession  - including cultures of donation, kinship and control over property transactions
• Punishment
• The cultural history of law
  
  

CV

Education:

2009    BA in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2009    Completed Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Programme (LTHE prgramme)

2005    PhD in Jurisprudence, University of Copenhagen

2001    Master in Arts in History, University of Copenhagen

Employments:

2009                  Associate professor in Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2007-2009        Assistant professor in Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2005-2007        External lecturer and research staff, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2001-2005        Ph.D scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Scientifical Focus Areas:

• Family
• Inheritance
• Law of property
• Donation cultures
• Law and religion
• Middle ages and early modern times

Management Experience:

2013-             Head of Study

2009-             Course director in Legal history. The course had approximately 700 subscribed students.

2005-2007    Acting course director in Legal history 

2003-            Co-organizer of international research conferences, which are held every second year as Carlsberg Academy Conferences on Medieval Legal history, held at either the Carlsberg Academy in Valby and at Aarhus University.