Helle Vogt (born 1974) holds the chair of legal history. Since she got her PhD in 2005 her work has mainly focused on comparative studies of Nordic law and legal practice primarily in the middle ages and early modern times. A big part of her work has focused on penal laws, kinship, the construction of family and the interaction with religious norms and learned law.

2012-2016 she has been the leader of a project about translating the Danish medieval laws to English (published 2016). From 2003-2015 she has been the chief organiser of the 11 Carlsberg Academy Conferences on Medieval Legal History. She also participate in a number of other collective projects.

Teaching and supervision: legal history (course leader), penal law, comparative law, legal culture.

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