Biografie Caroline Laske Biography Caroline Laske holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in law from the University of Cambridge, in linguistics and translation studies from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in legal history from the University of Ghent. Her research activities as a university researcher (University of Durham, Free University of Brussels, University of Ghent) and her work as a legal expert and specialist consultant for EU and international agencies, have taken her across a number of fields. Today her interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of law, history and language, applying linguistic analysis to study legal history & concepts, comparative law and translation. She currently holds a research fellowship at the Ghent Legal History Institute and is a visiting fellow at the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies. She works on relations between medieval Flanders and Anglo-Norman England and on the subject of legal capacity that medieval women enjoyed or lacked.
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