Sir Jeremy worked in the field of development and reform of the institutions and operations of the European Union, with particular reference to the problems associated with Economic and Monetary Union and with their consequences and the potential long term effects if the United Kingdom were to secede from the European Union. The other topic that has principally engaged my attention has been the legal effects of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on the procedures of the European Commission in cases relating to the grant of State aid by Member States.

My current research focuses on the intellectual history of the English Enlightenment and its nineteenth-century aftermath, particularly in fields such as antiquarianism, mythography and religious apologetic. Eventually, many years hence, these obsessions will intersect with an emerging interest in the history - and prehistory - of British anthropology. I am at my happiest riding these particular hobbyhorses, but I also have a stable of other subjects which fascinate me. These include constitutional theory, British as well as American, and the church history of my native county of Ayrshire in the age of Enlightenment. However, I am alert to the possibility that the parishes of eighteenth-century Fife might yield up treasures of their own to delight the connoisseur of theological controversy.

Jane Humphries published two refereed articles and edited and introduced two special issues of journals. Three book chapters are in press. Research using working women’s autobiographies based on her ESRC funded Memories of Industriousness: The Industrial Revolution and the Household Economy is ongoing. New projects include: women’s wages in the very long run (with Jacob Weisdorf); and trends in consumption from records of burglary and housebreaking (with Sara Horrell). She is an editor, with Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, of a new edition of the Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (forthcoming). She is the Chair of the History Faculty Board.

Professor Hood specialized in the study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform.

I work mainly on English and German private law with a strong comparative and historical focus. This includes especially the law of contract, tort law, the law of trusts, property law, and the law of succession, and it extends to adjoining areas of commercial and company law. I also have an interest in aspects of tax law and in the principles governing the conflict of laws.