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Lauren Benton is an American historian and professor of law and history at Vanderbilt University. She is a specialist in the history of international law and empire, and has written extensively on the history of colonialism and imperialism. She is the author of several books, including A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (2010) and Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (2002). She has also written numerous articles and book chapters on the history of international law, colonialism, and imperialism. Benton was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1978. She then went on to receive her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981, and her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University. She is currently the Dean of the Vanderbilt Law School.

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 17 May 1956
Birthday 17 May
Birthplace Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality United States

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2019

In 2019, Benton received the Toynbee Prize for significant contributions to global history.

Benton’s early scholarship focused on culture and economic development. Her book Invisible Factories: The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain examined industrial restructuring and the “informal sector,” or underground economy, in Spain during the transition to democracy of the 1970s and early 1980s. Benton also co-edited a volume with Alejandro Portes and Manuel Castells on the informal sector in comparative economic development.

2003

Benton served as Dean for Humanities and as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, where she was Professor of History from 2003 to 2015 and Affiliate Professor of Law from 2008 to 2015. In 2015, Benton joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University and served as Dean of the College of Arts and Science from 2015 to 2018. She is the Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. Benton is President-elect of the American Society for Legal History.

1956

Lauren Benton (born 1956) is an American historian known for her works on the history of empires, colonial and imperial law, and the history of international law. She is the Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.

Lauren Benton was born in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended high school at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland. She graduated from Harvard University in 1978, with a concentration in economics. Benton received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from Johns Hopkins University in 1987.

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Rage for Order: The British Empire and the History of International Law, 1800-1850, which Benton coauthored with Lisa Ford, appeared in 2016 and uncovers a vast project of global legal reform in the early nineteenth century. Benton and Ford introduce the terms "middle power" and "vernacular constitutionalism" in tracing the efforts of British imperial officials and reformers to reimagine and remake the imperial constitution. The book also analyzes the way imperial law prefigured international law and the rise of the interstate order.

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