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Judith Evans Grubbs
Judith Evans Grubbs
Titles 
Professor, Chair, Department of Classics

Degree 
Ph.D, Stanford University
Office 
January Hall, Room 204
Phone/Email
314-935-4018
jgrubbs@artsci.wustl.edu

Research specialization

Publications 

Women and the Law in the Roman Empire. A sourcebook on marriage, divorce, and widowhood. Routledge Press, 2002.

Law and Family in Late Antiquity: the Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation. Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press, 1995.

"Parent-Child Conflict in the Roman Family: the Evidence of the Code of Justinian," in The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond, ed. M. George, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2004.

"The Family," in The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire, ed. D. Potter, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 2004,

"Stigmata Aeterna: A Husband's Curse," in Vertis in usum. Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney, ed. C. Damon, J. Miller, and K.S. Myer, Leipzig: K.B. Saur Verlag, Munchen-Leipzig, 2002, p. 230-242.

Curriculum Vitae 
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Courses 

Ancient History: The Roman Empire

Survey of Latin Literature: The Republic

Research Interests

Judith Evans-Grubbs’ research focuses on Roman law and the family in the Roman imperial period, including late antiquity. She is the author of two books, Law and Family in late antiquity: the Emperor Constantine’s Marriage Legislation (Oxford, 1995) and Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce, and Widowhood (Routledge, 2002). Her current project is a book, Children without Fathers in Roman Law: Paternity, Patrimony, and Freedom, which looks children without a paterfamilias – children whose fathers have died, illegitimate children (who legally never had father), children who were exposed (abandoned) at birth, and children who were sold or pledged into slavery by their impoverished parents. Such children often existed in a very precarious position legally and socially, born free but liable to enslavement and exploitation.