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Lauren Benton is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law at Yale University. She holds leadership roles including Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in History. A comparative and world historian, Benton specializes in global legal history and European empires, focusing on British and Iberian empires. Her research examines how legal conflicts shape global orders, with publications exploring imperial violence, constitutionalism, sovereignty, piracy, and slavery abolition.
Her research interests center on legal regimes in world history, imperial governance, and the intersections of law and geography across empires. Key themes include comparative imperial structures, development of international law, and patterns of violence in colonial contexts.
Benton has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Toynbee Foundation Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Berlin Prize. Her book Law and Colonial Cultures won the James Willard Hurst Prize, Jerry Bentley Book Prize, and PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award.
She has held dean positions at NYU and Vanderbilt, served as president of the American Society for Legal History (2019-2020), and maintains collaborations through edited volumes like Protection and Empire and A World at Sea.
